Border Report Live

William Menard says the scale and types of arrests currently taking place under the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown are unprecedented.An immigration lawyer of 12 years, Menard said he was surprised to see Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arresting people who are attending immigration hearings and “just trying to do things the right way.”In San Diego this past week, a Norwegian woman who is married to a U.S. citizen was taken into custody for a visa overstay. About a week later, she was granted bond.Menard was a guest on Border Report Live on Tuesday. He outlined the rules for people with brief visa overstays and what it means for close relatives of U.S. citizens, including spouses and children.

Joshua Daguman is growing increasingly concerned about the health of his wife, Hanne, who finds herself in immigration detention in San Diego.
Hanne Daguman, who is from Norway, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents as she left an immigration hearing on Monday morning.
Joshua says his wife is diabetic and hasn’t been able to eat the food they’re serving because it mostly consists of pasta, bread, rice and potatoes, and other high-carb foods that are essentially poisonous to her.
Despite being married for a little over a year, Joshua says Hanne was considered to be “out of status” after her work visa expired.
On this episode of Border Report Live, he talked about how he believed he and his wife were in the right by attending immigration hearings and trying to fix her visa status.

About 80 people spent their Thursday morning protesting the immigration arrests and apprehensions that are taking place inside San Diego’s Federal Courthouse and other U.S. government facilities in the area.Our California correspondent Salvador Rivera joins us live to show us how residents are concerned with people being “blindsided” as they show up for appointments to renew visas, secure resident status and other matters.Also on this episode, the magical flight of majestic monarch butterflies captivate many butterfly-lovers who fuel the eco-tourism craze in the Rio Grande Valley, where these lovable orange insects fly to and from Mexico and flit across the Rio Grande at will.Monarch enthusiasts have even more to celebrate this year.Our South Texas correspondent Sandra Sanchez shows us how Texas A&M University and the Texas Department of Transportation have teamed up to help increase the numbers of monarch butterflies after years of steadily declining populations.

The North American Development Bank is accepting applications for millions of dollars in grants and low-interest loans for water resiliency projects on the southern border.The Water Resiliency Fund was approved earlier this year, but in a summit held this month in McAllen, bank leaders announced a call for proposed projects.In the latest episode of Border Report Live, NADBank Managing Director John Beckham tells South Texas correspondent Sandra Sanchez how much funds are available and what projects they’re looking for to stretch limited water resources on the U.S.-Mexican border.Also, California correspondent Salvador Rivera reports on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arresting people inside U.S. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offices in downtown San Diego. He spoke with the husband of a woman who was arrested Monday when she went for a meeting with federal immigration officials, and she now faces deportation.

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to review a policy used under past administrations to deny migrants a chance to apply for asylum on the Mexican border until space opened up to process claims.The justices will hear the Trump administration’s appeal of lower court rulings that struck down the practice known as metering, in which U.S. border agents capped the number of people seeking asylum at border crossings by prohibiting migrants from setting foot in the U.S.In this episode of Border Report Live, correspondents Salvador Rivera and Julian Resendiz discuss how the administration pressed for the high court’s intervention even after President Donald Trump suspended the asylum system on the first day of his second term and advocates for migrants said the lower-court rulings have no ongoing practical effect.The case will be argued in the late winter or early spring.

The planned closure of an El Paso commercial port of entry is giving a New Mexico community new arguments in favor of having its own border crossing.The federal government is finalizing plans for multimillion-dollar renovations at the Bridge of the Americas cargo lanes. The work is expected to take at least three years and likely lead to a permanent ban on trucks there.In this episode of Border Report Live, we learn from Sunland Park mayor Javier Perea, that means thousands of trucks coming over from Juarez, Mexico, will have to find an alternate route to the United States. With the flagship Ysleta cargo facility already crowded, area leaders expect many of those trucks to flow to Tornillo, Texas, and Santa Teresa, New Mexico.

U.S. immigration courts are “dysfunctional” and need more money, judges and new technology, according to a new report.The nonpartisan think tank Migration Policy Institute published “Breaking the Cycle of Dysfunction at the U.S. Immigration Courts” on Thursday.It found that U.S. immigration courts have been in a crisis for decades now.“They have been struggling to keep up with the number of cases that have been filed. And there’s simply not enough judges to handle all of them. But it’s really reached a crescendo. And now the courts have 3.8 million pending deportation cases. Far more than judges are able to work through,” immigration policy analyst Kathleen Bush-Johnson of the Migration Policy Institute tells South Texas correspondent Sandra Sanchez in the latest episode of Border Report Live.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing a Texas county for giving money to nonprofit organizations that provide legal services for migrants facing deportation from the United States.Paxton on Monday filed a lawsuit against Harris County Commissioners Court for approving $1.3 million last month for its Immigrant Legal Services Fund Program, which provides money to nonprofits that represent migrants pro bono in court.Harris County is home to Houston.The fund was created in 2020, but Paxton says in the lawsuit it is illegal and violates the state’s constitution by giving public funds to private entities to defend migrants accused of being in the country illegally.In the latest episode of Border Report Live, South Texas Correspondent Sandra Sanchez breaks down what Paxton wants. And El Paso Correspondent Julian Resendiz talks about a new disturbing crime trend in Mexico of women being burned and set on fire, and why Colombia has suspended cooperation with the United States over drugs.