Immigration Crisis: The Fight for the Southern Border

41 lives have been claimed by a bus accident in Panama which carried 66 migrants on their way from Panama and Colombia to the border between Panama and Costa Rica. Among those who are officially on the list are two men from Cameroon whose families are here in the U.S. As they wait to hear if they are among the unidentified patients in a government hospital - or if they are among the dead, we hear firsthand why they left Cameroon.

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We speak with ex-congressman Will Hurd about the vetting process for Russian asylum seekers arriving at the southern border. Hurd also shares why comprehensive immigration proposed laws won’t move while Democrats and Republicans continue to play political games.

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It’s the day a Russian couple has been waiting for. The day of their asylum appointment to enter into the US through Brownsville. With their 13-year-old little Yorkie, they waited for hours on the Gateway Bridge between Matamoros and Brownsville. But the trip wasn’t as easy as it sounds. Along the way, they also found a non-profit that was charging $3,500 per person to “help” them by “using their influence” with CBP to have their paperwork done quickly. This is according to what the couple said.

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The state of Texas will pay $224 million to a contractor who built part of the border wall which a federal report now says is failing. Why residents of El Cenizo and Rio Bravo in Webb County, Texas now say they feel disrespected by their own state.

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The change in policy made by the Biden Administration allows Cubans, Nicaraguans, Haitians, and Venezuelans to enter the US, but they must have a sponsor. We speak to a Guantánamo Bay Cuban American who says she will not sponsor anyone now. And her warning for those who are going to sponsor and those who want to come to the US.

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We speak with an 18-year-old victim of a stash house. He explains what he went through, while Homeland Security make a call for action. 

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President Biden is heading to El Paso. His immigration policy speech and why the Supreme Court is calling congress out when it comes to Title 42. And Congressman Henry Cuellar talks about the reality of change in DC when it comes to immigration. 

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We travel between Eagle Pass and Del Rio talking to both Maverick and Val Verde County Sheriffs in the second epicenter of the immigration crisis - the Del Rio sector for Border Patrol.

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On December 21st, just a few days before Christmas when many people cross the border with Mexico for the holidays, the Title 42 health policy will end. That’s the policy used during Covid 19 to control the number of people coming into the US through the Mexico/US border. We speak with Del Rio sector Chief Jason Owens and retired Chief and former acting Director of ICE Ronald Vitiello.

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It was 45 days after the June incident that claimed the lives of 53 immigrants, or so we thought. We speak to the head of a San Antonio non-profit who made the horrific find just feet away from where the 18-wheeler was found. And clashes between Venezuelan migrants and authorities in Juarez. Plus, the end of the capital murder trial of a border patrol agent found guilty of killing sex industry workers in Laredo.

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