WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today marks the three-year anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which provides undocumented youth who have grown up in the United States the opportunity to obtain temporary relief from deportation. Since its implementation, DACA has helped more than 664,600 young people continue and expand their…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2015, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. Several severe thunderstorms pummeled Eagle Pass and Maverick County, Texas on Sunday, June 14, 2015, commencing at approximately 3 A.M. causing severe flooding in the community. The National Weather Service issued a severe flash flooding warning to residents of…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2015, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. Maverick County’s financial problems continue to surface at Commissioners Court meetings, little by little the information trickles to the public spotlight at each meeting. At their regular monthly meeting on Monday, June 8, 2015, Maverick County Commissioners Court was…

Del Rio, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents working in the Del Rio Sector seized more than 1,000 pounds of marijuana and 25 pounds of cocaine, with an estimated value of more than $1.6 million in four different incidents. “The men and women of the Del Rio Sector Border Patrol…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2015, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. As a result of a presentation made by Dos Republicas Coal Partnership and its representatives at a May 5, 2015, Eagle Pass Water Works System Board of Trustees meeting, Maverick County Environmental and Public Health Association requested the Eagle…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2015, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. United States District Judge Alia Moses for the Western District of Texas, Del Rio Division, in Del Rio, Texas signed and entered the Agreed Preliminary Injunction agreed between the Brackettville Animal Lovers Association and the City of Brackettville, Texas…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2015, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. Eagle Pass City Councilwoman Gloria E. Hernandez raised key City of Eagle Pass governance issues during a recent local cable access television interview on Thursday, June 4, 2015. One of the issues raised by Councilwoman Hernandez was the potential…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2015, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. The City of Brackettville, Texas City Council’s regular meeting agenda held on Monday, June 8, 2015, at the City’s Annex Building was dominated by Animal Control Ordinance-related issues raised by the lawsuit filed by the Brackettville Animal Lovers Association…

by Alexa Ura, The Texas Tribune June 9, 2015 Editor’s note: This story has been updated throughout. In a blow to the state’s abortion providers, federal appeals judges on Tuesday upheld a state law requiring nearly all Texas facilities that perform the procedure to meet hospital-like standards. A three-judge panel…

by Julián Aguilar, The Texas Tribune June 9, 2015 After decades of forbidding foreign law enforcement officers from carrying weapons on Mexican soil, the Mexican government is on the verge of allowing U.S. agents to carry guns in places where they help speed the flow of goods between the two…