by Edgar Walters, The Texas Tribune Sept. 18, 2015 Editor’s note: This story has been updated with comment from a spokesman for Gov. Greg Abbott. Thousands of children with disabilities would be harmed by impending state budget cuts to therapy services, several dozen parents told state health officials on Friday….

DEL RIO, Texas – Border Patrol agents assigned to the Uvalde Station recently apprehended a Honduran national suspected of a burglary after tracking him for two days. “Our agents are skilled in various tracking techniques that are invaluable not only to the mission of securing our nation’s border, but also…

Washington, DC – Today, Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC), the American Immigration Council, Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES), and the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), partners in the CARA Family Detention Pro Bono Project, responded to the news that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had awarded a…

On the 4th day of his federal trial in El Paso, 52-year-old Jose Luis Rodriguez, owner of ERENE, Inc. (ERENE) pleaded guilty to orchestrating an estimated $100 million trade-based money laundering scheme announced United States Attorney Richard Durbin, Jr., Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Special Agent in Charge William Cotter,…

Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, Secretary Anthony Foxx of the Department of Transportation, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of the Southern District of New York, Administrator Mark R. Rosekind of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Inspector General Calvin L. Scovel III of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT-OIG), Special…

In San Antonio, Texas, on September 3, 2015, federal and state authorities arrested 47-year-old Linda A. Perez for her alleged role in a an illegal driver’s license scheme announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Director Steven C. McCraw and Acting Special Agent…

by Jim Malewitz, The Texas Tribune The number of people killed on the job in Texas increased in 2014, and the state retained its grim perch atop all others in workplace deaths, according to preliminary federal data released Thursday. Texas saw 524 fatal workplace injuries last year, compared with 508…

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2015 During their presentations to Eagle Pass and Maverick County, Texas governmental entities, public meetings, and private businesses, representatives of Dos Republicas Coal Partnership (DRCP) have focused and emphasized the outstanding safety record and environmental awards received by its contractors…

by Julián Aguilar, The Texas Tribune More boots on the ground and fewer supervisors to oversee them: That’s what the head of the United States Border Patrol union told a congressional committee is needed for the understaffed and outgunned federal agency grappling with the threat that violence south of the…

AUSTIN, TEXAS – Over 700,000 more Texans had health insurance in 2014 than in 2013 thanks to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), but Texas now has both the largest number and percentage of uninsured residents in the country. Today’s release of the Current Population Survey (CPS) portion of the U.S….