Acting CBP Commissioner Troy Miller said Wednesday that Border Patrol agents who encountered migrants in the Texas Rio Grande Valley have stopped giving out notice to appear citations, instead telling them to report to an ICE location within 60 days.
By Melanie Arter | May 20, 2021 | 10:52am EDT
Migrants that crossed into the United States in the Rio Grande Valley and were flown to El Paso, Texas, rest at the Instituto Nacional de Migracion after being expelled to Mexico in Ciudad Juarez on April 6, 2021. (Photo by PAUL RATJE/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - Acting CBP Commissioner Troy Miller said Wednesday that Border Patrol agents who encountered migrants in the Texas Rio Grande Valley have stopped giving out notice to appear citations, instead telling them to report to an ICE location within 60 days.
During a House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security hearing, Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Calif.) asked Miller about CBP using “prosecutorial discretion to include the issuance of notices to report to ICE often known as RTI or an I-385 to certain migrant families in the RGV sector of Texas due to severe overcrowding in CBP facilities.”
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Laredo College, TAMIU to receive nearly $56M in COVID relief
May 19, 2021
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TAMIU s campus is pictured on June 11, 2020. The university received nearly $30 million in American Rescue Plan funds.Danny Zaragoza /Laredo Morning Times file
The U.S. Department of Education announced that over $430 million will be made available for institutions of higher education before the end of May, with TAMIU and Laredo College and receiving $29,210,965 and $26,538,441, respectively.
This means that additional grants for students will be available to apply for which will help with expenses resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic throughout this past year.
TAMIU President Dr. Pablo Arenaz said that with food and job insecurity along with rent presenting issues to students statewide, the grants will be available to help. He added that a number of emergencies originated amid the pandemic, many heartbreaking, and that the CARES Act and these additional funds would help.
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It doesn’t feel as though the road out of Brownsville, Texas, will take you anywhere special. As you leave one of America’s poorest cities, drive-throughs and sprawl give way to run-down ranch homes and scrubland. Eventually, the landscape empties flat, green, unremarkable. Maybe the only notable thing about the drive east on State Highway 4 is the border-patrol checkpoint, a reminder that the two-lane road runs parallel to the U.S.–Mexico border. But then a collection of boxes and cylinders appears on the horizon.
As you get closer, the geometric shapes fill with detail: pitch-roofed hangars, a 20-story rectangular structure, satellite dishes, giant cone-shaped hunks of shiny metal, smaller buildings, trailers, shipping containers. The temporary structures suggest rapid expansion, and the site is a hive of activity, with security guards, construction workers, and other official-looking men at work. The accumulated effect suggests a Bond villain