Border Report Live

Whether President Donald Trump can deny citizenship to children born to parents who are in the U.S. illegally will be up for debate in Supreme Court this week.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Wednesday over the constitutionality of Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship, which he signed on Jan. 20, 2025, the first day of his second term.
The justices will hear Trump’s appeal of a lower-court ruling that struck down the citizenship restrictions, none of which have not taken effect anywhere in the country.
Caitlin Patler, associate professor of public policy at the University of California-Berkeley, is the lead author of an amicus brief co-signed by 140 scholars and submitted to the Supreme Court.
She presented estimates of the impacted population of children, projected financial contributions through 2074 under the status quo birthright citizenship, and a summary of research on the benefits of citizenship and the harms of revoking birthright citizenship.

Republicans in Washington are trying to undo long-held protections for immigrants.
In this episode of Border Report Live, host Rudy Mireles discusses how Republicans are ramping up talks to overturn the Supreme Court decision that gave children of people living in the country illegally rights to a free public education.
Also this week, Supreme Court will hear arguments over President Donald Trump’s executive order that would deny U.S. citizenship to children born in the United States to people who are in the country illegally or temporarily.
Plus, a grandmother from South Texas found herself in an immigration detention facility after forgetting her visa during a trip south of the Border.

On this episode of Border Report Live, the increasing number of Mexican immigrants dying in U.S. custody, hundreds of migrants rescued from a locked trailer, a growing number of unaccompanied migrants youth crossing the border, and the state of Texas says it’s done building and paying for border walls.
El Paso correspondent Julian Resendiz and host Rudy Mireles discuss the anger Mexican officials are expressing over the deaths of 13 of its citizens while in U.S. immigration custody.
Plus, in the Mexican state of Veracruz, officials found a trailer with 239 Central and South American migrants, including 17 unaccompanied children, locked inside. Mexican authorities have taken the first steps to repatriate the adults, while the children have been taken into protective custody.
The trailer was found in Xalapa, Mexico, which is about 565 miles south of McAllen in South Texas, where more unaccompanied migrant children are crossing the border illegally.
An analysis by South Texas correspondent Sandra Sanchez of U.S. Customs and Border Protection data finds that one-third of all unaccompanied migrant children encountered on the Southwest border crossed into the Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley Sector.

Several members of the Austin City Council are awaiting a response from the city manager regarding how to address federal immigration policy and enforcement.
The city council members sent Austin City Manager TC Broadnax a memorandum titled, “Protecting the People of Austin from Unconstitutional and Violent Federal Operations.”
The memo has five directives, which include exploring ways to prohibit law enforcement from wearing face coverings in the city, expanding education programs to help people understand their rights, ensuring the city is reporting “violence, property damage, and allegations of criminal conduct” by federal officers, and finding ways to report instances where agents may have entered a property without a warrant.
KXAN reporter Grace Reader spoke with one of the council members and got a comment from the city manager’s office.

Environmental groups and business leaders are pushing back against the federal government’s plans to put border wall and “smart wall” through the Big Bend region of West Texas.
Maps on U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s website on Monday show orange lines, which indicate “smart wall” technology through much of the region, but some border wall is still expected to go through Big Bend Ranch State Park, says Laiken Jordahl, national public lands advocate for the Center for Biological Diversity.
In the latest episode of Border Report Live, Jordahl tells South Texas correspondent Sandra Sanchez and host Rudy Mireles that border wall will devastate Big Bend National Park’s 1,500-foot-tall cliffs overlooking the Rio Grande, prevent wildlife from getting to the river to drink, and detour tourists and hikers and white-water rafters who frequent the region.
In 2024, Big Bend National Park had over 561,000 visitors and generated $57 million to the local economy, and $63 million in economic output to the region, according to a March 12 letter by the Center for Biological Diversity and 131 other organizations and nonprofits sent to several lawmakers to garner their support for putting a stop to the wall, including U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas.

The detention and deportation of immigrants who lived in the United States for years and have now been sent to Honduras is causing family separations and irreparable psychological and physical harm to children, according to a new report by Physicians for Human Rights and the Women’s Refugee Commission.
Dr. Michele Heisler, medical director for the nonprofit Physicians for Human Rights, details the report she co-authored on this episode of Border Report Live to South Texas correspondent Sandra Sanchez and host Rudy Mireles.
She explains how she and other physicians spent several days in Honduras in November interviewing women and men who had just arrived after being deported, and also interviewed with physicians, counselors and government officials.
The report, “What About My Children: Family Separation Among Parents Deported to Honduras,” says 92% of those deported had no criminal background. Most had been long-time residents living in the United States and were arrested at work, at courthouses during mandatory immigration hearings, while running errands, picking up children at school and at traffic stops.

Republican Oklahoma Markwayne Mullin is facing tough questions on Capitol Hill as he faces lawmakers who will decide whether he will be the next Department of Homeland Security Secretary.
Sen. Rand Paul, the Republican from Kentucky, has made clear he has little regard for President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security, fellow Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin. He says he’ll vote against him.
Their differences go way back.
In today's episode of Border Report Live, Migrant Insider's Pablo Manriquez shares the tale of how both men dislike each other.
Manriquez was in the Senate committee hearing when the men squared off.
Also on this episode, shocking allegations against the late Cesar Chavez that he abused young girls and women has left many in the country stunned.

The construction of a $3 billion new oil refinery on the South Texas border near expanding SpaceX and under construction LNG facility, as well as new border wall being built and border buoys put in the Rio Grande are concerning environmentalists.
In this episode of Border Report Live, Jim Chapman of the nonprofit Save RGV tells South Texas correspondent Sandra Sanchez and host Rudy Mireles of the “hazards” that all of these projects pose to the Rio Grande Valley border environment.
Chapman worries that a launch-related explosion at SpaceX – which is located just four miles from the Port of Brownsville – could cause significant damage if it was to cause fire at the port with all of its new construction and chemicals.
A $15 billion LNG facility is being built at the port, the same port where President Donald Trump last week announced a new oil refinery also will be built on the border with Mexico in Brownsville, Texas.