(Press Release) The City of Eagle Pass Business & Economic Development Committee (BEDC) is holding several activities week to support Labor Workforce Training and Business & Economic Development.  All programs are free and open to the public. Executive Leaders Mentorship Luncheon, Wednesday, April 11, 2018, 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. …

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2018 The Maverick County Sheriff’s Department announced that an Eagle Pass, Texas man, Gerardo Zuniga, age 61, died from the injuries he sustained in a head-on automobile collision with a tree on Eidson Road and Memo Robinson Drive in southern Maverick…

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT – Eagle Pass, Texas. The City of Eagle Pass Loma Bonita Self-Help Center Program will be hosting a Spring Fest on Saturday, April 14, 2018 from 10am to 1pm at their location at 2064 Boulder Ridge, Eagle Pass, Texas. The event will offer an opportunity for area…

(PRESS RELEASE) District Attorney Roberto Serna reported that on April 5, 2018, a Zavala County jury sentenced Felipe Hernandez to 15 years confinement in prison for the offense of Bail Jumping/Failure to Appear.  Felipe Hernandez had failed to appear in court as required after he been released from custody on…

By: John Manley, ThinkImmigration.org What do financial planners, real estate agents, business development professionals and politicians have in common? All of them use statistics to drive home their points. Have you ever seen an investment professional who is marketing his or her services show you an investment portfolio that has…

(PRESS RELEASE) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection yesterday released enforcement statistics on CBP.gov. The latest metrics detail enforcement actions for fiscal year 2018 ending in March. Categories include the arrests of individuals with criminal convictions, nationwide apprehensions by gang affiliation, and total nationwide narcotics seizures. In FY2017, Officers and…

By Julián Aguilar, The Texas Tribune April 9, 2018 SANTA TERESA, N.M. — A groundbreaking Monday for a new border barrier in New Mexico signals the beginning of the fulfillment of President Donald Trump’s best-known campaign promise, federal officials said. “The president has started his project,” Agent Aaron A. Hull,…

(PRESS RELEASE) WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), part of the Department of Justice (DOJ), has instituted strict quotas as part of immigration judges’ individual performance evaluations, a shift that strips away the independence held by judges who are making high stakes decisions about whether a…

(Press Release) Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Attorney General Jeff Sessions today released a fiscal year (FY) 2017 Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program report showing that for every dollar the federal government spent on healthcare related fraud and abuse investigations in the last three years,…

(Press Release) – U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Eagle Pass Station arrested a Mexican man, convicted of rape, who attempted to re-enter the country after having been previously removed. “Del Rio Sector personnel are relentless in their vigilance to ensure the safety of our citizens and security of…