Border Report Live

It’s been more than a month since Adelita Grijalva easily won a special election to replace her father, Democratic U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva, who died of cancer back in March.
For 22 years, Raul represented Arizona’s 7th District Congressional, which covers the majority of Arizona’s border with Mexico.
Since her victory last month, Adelita has been waiting to be sworn in by House Speaker Mike Johnson, or as she called it marking time in “Twilight Zone limbo.”
In this episode of Border Report Live, Grijalva told us that Democrats in Washington, and even herself, have tried on several occasions to get Johnson to swear her in, but she has given up even trying to speak with him.

As the government shutdown puts SNAP benefits in jeopardy, a nonprofit in the Rio Grande Valley is bracing for families who might need food assistance. Dr. Rashmi Chandran, president and CEO of AltaCair Foundation, appeared on Border Report Live to discuss how the nonprofit is trying to anticipate the needs of this South Texas region should Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funds end on Nov. 1.

The detention of thousands of immigrants without criminal convictions and the lack of bond at immigration hearings during the Trump administration violates their civil rights, immigration lawyer Katie Lincoln-Goldfinch says.
Lincoln-Goldfinch is an immigration lawyer based in Austin, Texas. On the latest episode of Border Report Live, she discusses the 71% of detained immigrants who have no criminal convictions, according to the latest data from Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.

Pablo Manríquez is a Washington, D.C.-based journalist who enjoys unprecedented access to the halls of Congress, White House and policymakers from both sides of the aisle.
His newsletter, “Migrant Insider,” consistently exposes and challenges stories about immigration and other pertinent border issues.
On Border Report Live, Manríquez offers a look into ongoing ICE raids, migrant detentions, the Department of Homeland Security’s significantly larger budget, as well as pending prosecutions of ICE agents accused of arresting and detaining people without warrants or court orders.

The U.S. Coast Guard boats lined up side by side alongside a small pier in the Rio Grande on Tuesday morning as part of a new border security initiative started in South Texas.
In the span of an hour, Border Report counted seven boats, which also included some U.S. Border Patrol vessels.
In this episode of Border Report Live, we'll talk about how the surge in boats occurred a day after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced that 100 Coast Guard boats and hundreds of personnel would now patrol the Rio Grande in the Rio Grande Valley as part of Operation River Wall.

After a year that has seen deliveries across the border drop by 40 percent, truckers are noticing an uptick in work as the holidays approach.
According to Israel Delgado Vallejo, vice president of the Northwest Freight Transporters Association, the Christmas and Thanksgiving push has already started with demand for certain products.
In this episode of Border Report Live, we learn more about the issue from Delgado Vallejo.
“It has been a complicated year,” Delgado Vallejo said. “This is the final stretch and we’re seeing a slight spike in some industrial sectors. We have seen some drastic drops in business projections and losses of employment in our industry.”

The El Paso trade corridor is one of the busiest on the Texas-Mexico border. More than 800,000 trucks and billions of dollars in parts and merchandise come across three border crossings every year.
But one of those portals is likely to shut down for good in late 2027 due to repairs, upgrades and the need to get polluting big rigs out of some El Paso neighborhoods.
That’s where the renovated but underutilized Marcelino Serna port of entry in Tornillo, Texas, east of El Paso comes in.
In this episode of Border Report Live, El Paso County Commissioner Precinct 2 David Stout has been championing taking the trucks of the Bridge of the Americas in the Chamizal area of South Central El Paso and routing them to Tornillo.

Environmental and community groups are criticizing this week's move by the White House to sidestep several environmental-protection laws in order to clear the way for more border wall construction.
The Southern Border Communities Coalition says the work will not only damage the landscape, flora and fauna along the southern border, but disrupt the quality of life for people who live in those areas along the border.
In this episode of Border Report Live, Ricky Garza with the coalition tells us about the more than 5,500 truckers have lost their driving privileges in the U.S. due to their lack of basic English skills, according to Mexico's Northwest Freight Transporters Association.
Back in April, President Trump signed an executive order to reinstitute an existing law mandating all commercial truckers have enough English literacy to read road signs and communicate with law enforcement.
Most of the suspensions are happening in Texas and Arkansas. States such as California, Washington and New Mexico continue to ignore the president's order even if it means losing federal highway funds.