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Del Rio Stabbing: Court Records Contradict Early Reports on Where Attack Happened

Court records detail the Del Rio stabbing that killed Caroline Peña, 32. Three women face murder charges and $5M bail each as the case unfolds.

Latin Times

Who Was Caroline Peña? Inside the Life of the Mother of Five Killed by Three Women in Del Rio, Texas Stabbing

Caroline Peña, a mother of five, was fatally stabbed in Del Rio, Texas. Three women have been charged with her murder. The community mourns her loss and supports her children.

International Business Times UK

Texas Mother of Five Stabbed to Death in Broad Daylight; Two Sisters and a Friend Charged

Three women — two of them sisters — have been charged with murder after Caroline "Caro" Peña, a 32-year-old Del Rio mother of five, was stabbed during a daytime confrontation and died hours later. Police have not named a motive, and the case remains open.

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Texas quietly shuttered Operation Lone Star booking facility in Del Rio

Gov. Greg Abbott had opened two such sites as he surged thousands of DPS troopers and Guard members to the Texas-Mexico border.

The Texas Tribune

CBP Confirms Man Found Suffering Heart Attack on Christmas Day Died the Following Day

According to the agency's summary of events, agents assigned to the Del Rio Border Patrol Station in Texas encountered and apprehended a man who was sitting in a chair near the Rio Grande River who was showing signs of medical distress.

Latin Times

‘It’s Not a War Zone’: Val Verde County’s Conservative Democratic Sheriff on Misinformation, Immigration

"Before people start commenting on the border, come visit the border. Right now there's nothing going on."

Texas Observer

Hundreds Of Troops Are In Texas To Prevent Border Crossings, But They Hardly See Any Attempts

Border Patrol agents in the Del Rio sector and the nearby city of Eagle Pass have been apprehending fewer than 50 people per day since late January

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Judge James C. Ho's Remarks to the Midland County Bar Association

"This isn’t about forum shopping. It’s about forum shaming. It’s about shaming judges who won’t distort their rulings to do their bidding—while rewarding those judges who do."

Reason

Appeals court halts ruling that Border Patrol can legally cut Texas’ border concertina wire

Less than a week after a Del Rio-based federal judge ruled against Texas in the ongoing fight over the state’s razor wire, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals paused that decision while it reviews the case.

The Texas Tribune

Abbott’s Billion-Dollar Barrier

Texas’ border wall is rearing its head—concerns about wildlife, public thrift, and property rights notwithstanding.

Texas Observer

Texas cities set temperature records amid relentless heat wave

Corpus Christi logged a heat index of 125 degrees at one point in the past week, as Laredo, Del Rio, San Angelo and Junction also set new highs.

The Texas Tribune

Biden names a Border Patrol veteran in Texas to be the agency's next chief

Jason Owens, the head of a busy Border Patrol sector in Del Rio, Texas, will lead the agency, the Biden administration announced. His predecessor is retiring at the end of the month.

WEKU

Texas sent a migrant woman and her sick daughter nearly 2,000 miles away: ‘I was afraid’

A woman showed up to Del Rio, Texas with her 10-year-old daughter – only to be bussed to Philadelphia, a city she had never heard of

The Guardian - US

American Airlines cutting flights to three more cities over pilot shortage, soft demand

American Airlines plans to drop service this spring to three more small airports served by regional carriers, citing an industry-wide shortage of pilots and “soft demand.”

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The Independent UK

Federal lawsuit filed in Texas over Uvalde school shooting

A federal lawsuit has been filed in Del Rio, Texas, against eight entities and three individuals for the May shooting that killed 19 students and two teachers in Uvalde

The Texas Tribune

Texas awards $307 million in contracts for 14 miles of new border wall

The two companies awarded contracts on Thursday will erect border barriers in Del Rio and the Rio Grande Valley.

Miami Herald

A year after border crisis, Haitian asylum seekers face discriminatory treatment, report says

Haitians crossing the southern border of the United States without proper documentation are being subjected to arbitrary detention and discriminatory and humiliating ill treatment that amounts to race-based torture, Amnesty International says in a new report marking the first anniversary of the migration crisis at the U.S. border in Del…

The Texas Tribune

A disabled veteran has waited eight years for a $1 million settlement from the Air Force

David P. Bighia had hoped to work at Laughlin Air Force Base in Del Rio. Instead, he’s been fighting the Air Force as he faces home foreclosure.

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WEKU

After Del Rio, some Haitian migrants found safety in the U.S. But many have not

It's been nearly a year since tens of thousands of Haitian migrants converged on Del Rio, Texas. Some of those migrants are still looking for safety — and accountability for how they were treated.

Texas Observer

Beto Hits the Road for the Last Leg of His Tour

The Democratic nominee for governor wooed rural voters on on his 49-day tour of the state.

The Independent UK

Pecan farmers get caught in power vacuum on Texas border

A large pecan farm in Eagle Pass, Texas, is the site of the latest dispute between Gov. Greg Abbott and the Biden administration over an unprecedented challenge to how the federal government polices the U.S. border with Mexico

WEKU

The agents on horseback who chased migrants used unnecessary force, a report finds

A federal investigation concluded that the Border Patrol agents did not use their reins to whip any of the Haitian migrants who were crossing the border near Del Rio, Texas, last year.

The Independent UK

Border Patrol agents did not whip migrants in Del Rio but internal report notes ‘unprofessional and dangerous behaviour’

Investigators ‘found multiple instances in which agents acted inappropriately during the incident’

Miami Herald

4 border agents face discipline over ‘dangerous’ horseback behavior in Del Rio, Texas

Border patrol agents on horseback who corralled Haitian migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in Del Rio, Texas, in September, “acted inappropriately during the incident” and endangered migrants with unsafe maneuvers, according to an internal review published Friday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

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DHS investigating anti-migrant coins

The coin is inscribed with sentences like "You will be returned" and "Yesterday's border is not today's border"

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