Here’s a shocker: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has, once again, reneged on its promise to include the public in its border wall plans in South Texas. The Brownsville Herald reports that a letter from top Customs and...

The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the U.S. State Department for denying passports to Mexican-American citizens delivered by midwives in South Texas stating that federal authorities “have adopted and applied blanket suspicion toward one group of passport applicants...

It’s always weird to see your hometown in the New York Times especially when your hometown is a world away from the bustling city. But that’s what happened to Guanabee Editor Cindy Casares when the Times published a photo...

Cindy: Hi, Mom. How’s it going? Cindy’s Mom: Well, we’re just here having a hurricane party. Cindy: Are you really? Who’s there? Are you drinking hurricanes? Cindy’s Mom: Your grandmother’s here. I don’t know what a hurricane is. I...

As has been mentioned here before, Texas-based grocery chain H-E-B (it stands for H.E. Butt, chortle!) is so beloved by Texas Mexicans that they even have 27 locations in Northern Mexico. So it only took them 71 years to...

ABC South Texas affiliate KRGV is reporting that the Mexican military has taken over police stations in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, a town that neighbors Brownsville, Texas in an apparent attempt to bust cops involved in drug trafficking. Police officers are...

Colorado (or should we say, “Red”?) Congressman and presidential candidate Tom Tancredo who you might recall from a recent CNN appearance where he touted his not-so-well-thought-out English-only proposal for America, has spoken out against the South Texas, border town...

A news item about a Los Angeles based casting company for the ABC TV NBC show, “Friday Night Lights” not being able to fill 400 Mexican extras roles in Brownsville, Texas made us chuckle. Mainly because Brownsville, located spitting...