partment of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to prioritize the health and safety of border agents and border communities amidst a COVID-19 surge in the Rio Grande Valley. The COVID-19 surge has resulted in the shutdown of Catholic Charities, nearly 70 border agents testing positive for COVID-19 in the RGV sector, 17 border agents testing positive for COVID-19 in the Laredo sector, and 233 hospital beds occupied in the local area. Additionally, 27% of the unaccompanied children deported this week tested positive for COVID-19 with Brownsville experiencing a 15% positivity rate. Border Patrol is also sending immigrants directly to the McAllen COVID-19 testing site.

The Texas Heritage Songwriters’ Association (Texas Songwriters) is pleased to announce its 2022 Hall of Fame class of inductees: Lefty Frizzell, Nanci Griffith, Lightnin’ Hopkins, and Mark James.

Our immigration system is broken and in desperate need of repair. The Chamber held an event, Putting Communities First: How Immigration Reform Will Drive Economic Growth, where business leaders described how the lack of reform is hurting their communities and impeding America’s global competitiveness.

After skipping a year because of COVID-19, Operation Lone Star, the annual weeklong emergency preparedness exercise offering a variety of free medical services, returns to San Juan in Hidalgo County beginning Monday, July 26, 2021 at 8 a.m.

UTRGV’s ASL Club will present two De’Via (Deaf View/Image Art) painting workshops this month as part of the Texas Office of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services Camp Sign virtual activities.

Shortstop Christian Sepulveda, who played for The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) baseball team from 2019-21, made his professional debut for the Billings Mustangs of the Pioneer League on Wednesday.

U.S. Customs and border protection officers working at the Bridge of the Americas port of entry in El Paso seized 14.4 pounds of heroin and 104 pounds of liquid methamphetamine July 22. One person was arrested in the case.

The weather forecast calls for a slight chance of thunderstorms, but you can only see a few fluffy white clouds overhead.

Texas Border Business EDINBURG, TX – Rio Grande Valley Sector (RGV) Border Patrol agents identified a registered sex offender attempting to sponsor a 16-year-old migrant teenager. McAllen Station Border...

Rio Grande Valley Sector (RGV) Border Patrol agents arrested three Mara-Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang members in 48 hours.