Texas group s message to Trump ahead of border visit: Fuera!
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A Texas legal advocacy group took out a full-page political advertisement in a Rio Grande Valley newspaper the day of President Donald Trump s visit to the region.Courtesy, TCRP
A Texas legal advocacy group took out a full-page political advertisement in a Rio Grande Valley newspaper the day of President Donald Trump s visit to the region.
The Texas Civil Rights Project, an Austin-based group tracking lawsuits along the border, paid for a page in the The Monitor, a McAllen-based newspaper, in an effort to reached the Twitter-banned president. The page ran on page 11A on Tuesday.
President Trump tours a section of the southern border wall in 2019, in Otay Mesa, Calif.
President Donald Trump will visit the Rio Grande Valley on Tuesday, only days before the end of his presidency.
South Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar explained to TPR on Saturday that he confirmed the visit with the Federal Aviation Administration and people on ground from the Department of Homeland Security.
The Hidalgo County Democrat said Trump was expected to arrive at Harlingen’s airport and travel to a nearby area to showcase border wall construction. I guess in his mind this is the priority, but right now, during a pandemic, he’s got the wrong priority, Cuellar said. The priorities should be fighting the pandemic, healing the country from what happened last week, but as you can tell, he’s been obsessed with the border wall these last four years.
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Behind Dickies Arena, and largely hidden from passersby, several lines of cars crept toward dozens of volunteers who were stocking trunks with frozen turkeys, orange juice, and other foodstuffs as part of a mobile pantry by the Tarrant Area Food Bank (TAFB).
“Most of these folks, around 40%, are brand-new to our services,” said Julie Butner, president and CEO of the TAFB. “These are folks who held two or three jobs and lost one. These are working families, but they don’t have enough money to meet their food needs.”
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LA GRULLA, Texas The federal government said it needed Ociel Mendoza s land on the outskirts of this tiny Texas town and it couldn t wait any longer.
Each additional day of delay was costing the government $15,000 as contractors waited to begin construction on the border fence slated to go through Mendoza s ranch, the Department of Justice argued in court filings. By Nov. 24, the tab for the delay had reached nearly $1.6 million, the land acquisition manager for U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in an affidavit.