Everyone knows about the raids, but fewer people are tracking the paperwork behind them. Wednesday morning, unmarked vehicles circled unsuspecting subjects, carrying them away in handcuffs. The raids that people see on the news are now happening in Starr County. Residents believed this would never reach them. What's landing in Starr County didn't start there. It started with a plan built in Washington, long before any vehicle circled a parking lot in Rio Grande City looking f

Remember when we were told those giant orange buoys would secure the border? Texas remembers. So does the Rio Grande. For days now, South Texans have watched surreal images of enormous orange floating barriers, some weighing nearly a ton, drifting helplessly down the Rio Grande, piling against international bridges, disrupting commercial traffic, forcing emergency declarations, and turning one of the busiest trade corridors in North America into an obstacle course. What was m

Sean Teare serves as the Harris County District Attorney in Houston, a Democrat elected to oversee prosecutions across the county. Before taking office, he spent close to twenty years in law enforcement, including more than a decade teaching cadets at the Houston Police Department Academy. That background now places him at the center of two competing investigations into a federal agency operating largely outside his jurisdiction. He told CBS News this week the vehicle-stop ta

Mission Regional Medical Center faces a state investigation over allegations that it marketed birth tourism packages to foreign nationals. Governor Greg Abbott sent a letter Tuesday afternoon ordering the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to investigate the Mission hospital over reports that it advertised "birth packages" abroad. The directive targets whether the hospital profited from offering birth packages to South Texas and refers the matter directly to HHSC. Abb

On the morning of July 4, 2025, the Guadalupe River rose 26 feet in 45 minutes. Girls as young as 7 were asleep in cabins fewer than 225 feet from the riverbank. Camp Mystic had no written evacuation plan, no emergency drills, no walkie-talkies, and a policy prohibiting campers from keeping phones in their cabins. Twenty-five children and two counselors were killed in the flood. For about two weeks, the country was inconsolable. This is not a new story. It is, by now, a patte

UFW Pauses Cesar Chavez Celebrations Somebody knew. That much was clear before any official statement, before any foundation issued a formal apology or a union called off its celebrations. Events were disappearing from calendars across the country, organizers were going silent, and the explanations offered were, at best, deliberately vague. A memo to the San Antonio City Council said only that the reason for canceling the city's annual César E. Chávez March for Justice was "a

There’s a special kind of pride in the Rio Grande Valley—loud, loyal, and stamped across windshields in Old English font. People from the 956 love the Valley so much, they’ll tattoo it on their chest, defend it like a mother defends her firstborn, and tell the world that todo es mejor en el Valluco and maybe it is, until you need a dentist, a therapist, or a job that pays more than $12 an hour. The love is real. So real, it borders on self-containment. People here are so ride