DEL RIO, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Del Rio Sector area of operations apprehended five convicted sex offenders within the past month. On Sept. 9 at approximately 12:30 a.m., agents from the Del Rio Station, patrolling near Pecan Road arrested Jose Beltran-Morales, 29, an undocumented immigrant…

After the 75-year monopolistic reign of state-owned Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), Mexico’s energy sector was transformed this August by the enactment of secondary legislation opening up the energy sector to foreign companies. Advocates of the reform hope that foreign investment can help expand shale gas extraction in Mexico, which the U.S….

By: David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News Attorney Tomas Ramirez is confident he’ll win an appeal in the case of a Karnes County, Texas family who sued two oil companies claiming their lives had been ruined by toxic emissions. But even a win on appeal could take up to two years, and…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. UPDATE: El Indio Highway (FM 1021) has now been reopened to traffic An early morning auto accident on Wednesday, September 10, 2014, has caused the temporary closure of El Indio Highway (FM 1021) in Eagle Pass, Texas, near the…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. Mexican official Luis Videgaray announced that Edgardo Garcia Gonzalez, age 25, one of five victims injured in the August 31, 2014, explosion at the Mexican Customs Inspection Office in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, passed away on September 8th from…

There’s no question that improving the United States’ outdated immigration system would help the economy. The Senate-passed immigration bill S. 744 would have, if enacted, reduced the federal budget deficit by approximately $1 trillion over 20 years and led to an increase in wages for U.S. workers. But House leaders failed…

Last week, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) issued a landmark decision that recognizes that women who have experienced domestic violence may be deemed a “member of a particular social group” which would help support a potential asylum case. The case, Matter of A-R-C-G-, arrives at a time when many…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. The thundering Eagle Pass C. C. Winn High School Mavericks stampeded the Carrizo Springs High School Wildcats 30-13 on Friday, September 5, 2014, at Frank Carter Stadium in Carrizo Springs, Texas, earning their first win of the season and…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. The mighty Eagle Pass High School Eagles defeated the Laredo Nixon High School Mustangs 30-6 in a non-district football game on Friday, September 5, 2014, at Laredo Independent School District Shirley Field in Laredo, Texas, improving to 2-0 in…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. Eagle Pass contractor Jose Flores, III, was sentenced to ten months in federal prison, ordered to pay restitution of $8,382.50, placed on five years community supervision after release from federal prison, and ordered to pay a special assessment fee…