Valley Morning Star

WASHINGTON — When President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced new asylum restrictions intended to reduce the number of migrants entering the country illegally, he was flanked by Texas officials from U.S.-Mexico border communities.

McALLEN — As Bishop Daniel E. Flores of the Brownsville Diocese held Mass at Sacred Heart Catholic Church Tuesday morning commemorating the ten-year anniversary of the Humanitarian Respite Center, news broke about President Joe Biden’s executive order that will restrict the number of asylum seekers entering the United States.

HARLINGEN — Valley International Airport’ is just days away from opening the longest runway south of Austin following a $32 million project that’s the airport’s biggest in about 30 years.

Cameron County has received permission from the Biden administration to build, maintain and operate a new vehicular and pedestrian crossing at the U.S.-Mexico border in Brownsville.

BROWNSVILLE — The sun moves beyond the trees as a late afternoon breeze warm and wet blows swift and steady down the wide boulevard.

SAN BENITO — Grab your lawn chairs and blankets and get ready for a night at the movies — every Friday in June.

Letters to the editor published in The Monitor, Valley Morning Star and The Brownsville Herald during the week of June 3-8, 2024.

In the summer of 1803 President Thomas Jefferson concluded the Louisiana Purchase from the cash-strapped, strutting little tyrant, Napoleon Bonaparte. Jefferson then sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark off to map, explore and document the flora and fauna of the land that nearly doubled the land area of the newly created United States of America.

LOS FRESNOS — Playing football wasn’t always in the cards for Los Fresnos’ J.J. Contreras. Prior to his sophomore year, Contreras lived and breathed...

AUSTIN — Things looked desperate for the Weslaco High Panthers after going down 9-3 to Waco Midway entering the bottom of the seventh inning in the Class 6A state title game Saturday at McCombs Field in Austin.