Border Report Live

In the latest episode of Border Report Live, International Bank of Commerce Executive Vice President Gerald Schwebel, of Laredo, Texas, talks about how new tariffs imposed on Mexico are affecting the border economy.
Border Report South Texas correspondent Sandra Sanchez spoke with Schwebel about the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which is up for renewal in 2026.
Schwebel serves on binational committees that already are negotiating this important trade agreement between the countries and he says the United States has “leverage” that it appears to be using as they craft trade talks.

The president of Mexico says what happened in the waters off Venezuela won’t happen in her country.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said no when asked Thursday morning about the deadly U.S. military attack on a boat accused of carrying drugs and whether the U.S. could carry out a similar attack on Mexican soil.
Sheinbaum previously said President Donald Trump suggested sending U.S. troops to Mexico to help take down the cartels, but she said she would “never” agree to U.S. boots on the ground.
On this episode of Border Report Live, host Daniel Marin and correspondents Julian Resendiz and Salvador Rivera discuss the tension the U.S. is creating by increasing the U.S. military’s presence in Latin America.

A lack of employees in Texas to staff restaurants, bars and hotels due to threat of ICE raids at workplaces is taking a toll on the state’s economy, according to the Texas Restaurant Association.
In the latest episode of Border Report Live, South Texas correspondent Sandra Sanchez and host Rudy Mireles speak with Kelsey Erickson Streufert, spokeswoman for the Texas Restaurant Association, about how restaurants and hotels are struggling due to increased U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are searching Texas establishments looking for undocumented immigrants.

Planes full of unaccompanied migrant children who were being deported by the Trump administration back to Guatemala were stopped Sunday in Harlingen, Texas.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., blocked the Trump administration from sending any unaccompanied migrant child to Guatemala unless they have a deportation order. U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan issued the order as planes with nearly 100 children were sitting on the tarmac ready for take off from Valley International Airport.
In the latest episode of Border Report Live, KXAN host Daniel Marin talks with South Texas correspondent Sandra Sanchez about deportation flights from South Texas and the secretive Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services and oversees children who cross the U.S. border without an adult.
Plus, El Paso correspondent Julian Resendiz talks about the low numbers of migrants in Mexican shelters. And how much money is being sent back to Mexico by those in the United States.

The Trump administration this week announced it is waiving dozens of environmental regulations in order to build more border wall in the Rio Grande Valley of deep South Texas.
The border barrier will be built in rural Starr County and neighboring Hidalgo County and DHS says is necessary for border security. It will cut through federally protected environmental land tracks.

The federal government has seized two internet domains and a blog being used to sell fraudulent identity documents including bogus New Mexico driver’s licenses.
The FBI in 2022 began investigating a company called Verif.tools allegedly involved in a conspiracy to steal cryptocurrency accounts.
The Netherlands-based company allegedly offered to manufacture fake passports, driver’s licenses and other forms of ID for less than $10.
Also on the show, retired U.S. Border Patrol Sector Chief Victor M. Manjarrez Jr. says Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is walking a fine line between increasing cooperation with the Trump administration and not appear to her countrymen as if she is doing America’s bidding.

With assistance from other law enforcement officers, Border Patrol arrested more than 50 people Thursday and Friday during a major operation in the Rio Grande Valley.
Agents targeted people with criminal records who had no legal status in the United States.
Border Patrol, the FBI, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Marshals Service participated in the operation.

The Texas Border Trade Advisory Committee’s latest meeting in Austin focused on expanding roadways and infrastructure feeding into international crossings on both sides of the Texas-Mexico border.
Mission Economic Development Corporation CEO Teclo Garcia joined the latest episode of Border Report Live to break down the committee’s priorities and goals for expanding border infrastructure and economies.
Garcia sits on the committee that is headed by Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson. They met on Aug. 12 and he talks about the necessity for feeder roadways to ensure traffic flows to international bridges, as well as the fast-track bridge permitting process that is resulting in several presidential permits issued recently for international bridges in three South Texas counties, including Cameron County in the Rio Grande Valley.