Honduran First Lady Visits South Texas to Witness Crisis of Unaccompanied Children Immigrants

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The first lady of Honduras is visiting South Texas immigration shelters beginning today after news broke about a growing crisis involving tens of thousands of unaccompanied children who were confined to overcrowded, squalid conditions at the border, KXAN reports. Ana Garcia de Hernandez is just the latest in a growing number of…

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Border Patrol Union Leaders: Understaffed Agency Is Increasing Immigrant Crisis in Texas

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Union leaders for the Border Patrol told lawmakers Wednesday that the agency is understaffed and unable to handle the influx of immigrants as a crisis unfolds at the border with unaccompanied children, the Houston Chronicle reports. The agency is “drastically understaffed with morale plummeting to record lows,” Chris Crane, president of the…

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