Border Report Live

At least 65 people have died in Mexican communities devastated by torrential rains in the past week. The latest victim was reported in Juarez early Tuesday as the current swept away a man trying to wade through a flooded street. In this episode, correspondent Julian Resendiz tells us how Mexican government officials are rushing aid to towns hit worst by the storms, particularly in the state of Veracruz. So are the drug cartels.

The lead lawyer in a lawsuit to stop unaccompanied Guatemalan children from being deported from the United States describes how dozens of children were loaded onto planes and readied for removal to their home country from South Texas.
Efrén Olivares, of the National Immigration Law Center, joins Border Report Live on this episode where he talks about their lawsuit that has temporarily blocked deportation of upwards of 600 children who crossed the U.S. border without a parent or guardian seeking asylum or refuge.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta recently called efforts to send National Guard troops from California to Oregon “well outside of the norms or practices” of any president.”
President Donald Trump began mobilizing California troops early Sunday, a day after federal judge blocked him from using Oregon’s National Guard.
In this episode of Border Report Live, Bonta joins host Rudy Mireles and California correspondent Salvador Rivera to discuss the legal challenges and the judges decision to temporarily block the deployment in Oregon.

Adam Isacson of Washington Office for Latin America

A quarter of physicians in the United States are foreign born but new immigration policies threaten them from coming, according to the author of a new book.
On this episode of Border Report Live, Harvard University Associate Professor Eram Alam, author of the new book “The Care of Foreigners — How Immigrant Physicians Changed US Healthcare,” talks with South Texas correspondent Sandra Sanchez.

El Paso has become the epicenter of a political fight that has major implications in the 2026 midterm elections.
Two Latino organizations — the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) — are in federal court in El Paso challenging the Texas Legislature’s newly drawn congressional district maps, which they say dilute minority voting power and are unlawful.
The State of Texas denies any discriminatory or racially motivated intent behind the maps.
In this episode of Border Report Live, correspondent Julian Resendiz discusses this week’s hearings in Downtown El Paso.

Immigration courts are operating during the government shutdown, and the Department of Homeland Security has funds through President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill to continue deportation and migrant arrests, Aaron Reichlin-Melnik of the American Immigration Council told Border Report Live.
In this episode of Border Report Live, Reichlin-Melnik, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council in Washington, D.C., told South Texas correspondent Sandra Sanchez that billions of dollars for deportation and arrests funded through the Big Beautiful Bill is allowing DHS to continue near-normal operations.

In a change to recent trends, U.S. immigration courts are asking for more in-person hearings where migrant asylum-seekers face the potential for being arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials, immigration lawyer Claudia Galan says.
Galan joins South Texas correspondent Sandra Sanchez in the latest edition of Border Report Live where she weighs in on lawyers from the Army Reserve and National Guard who have been tapped as U.S. immigration judges, and how the current government shutdown is affecting immigration court proceedings.