Breaking update:
Mother of Panamanian girl who died in BP custody on Wednesday said they were detained over a week and that requests for an ambulance were denied repeatedly, including on the day her daughter, Anadith, died.
Valerie Gonzalez
10.7K posts
Valerie Gonzalez
@ValOnTheBorder
@AP journalist covering immigration and border issues from the Rio Grande Valley • formerly @monitornews • [email protected] • DMs open • Signal: ValGonzalez.03
McAllen, TX
Joined February 2014
- BREAKING: The US is now only giving migrants 12 hours to decide whether they want to contest under the wartime authority, Alien Enemies Act, down from 24 hours. The government attempted to seal the document but judge just unsealed it.
- It is about 10:20 pm in McAllen along south 10th Street for a protest that started around 5:30 pm. Participants are dancing, holding banners and honking their horns to lend their voice to those who are too fearful to speak of the mass deportations happening in their communities.
00:00 - Replying to @ValOnTheBorderMiddle of the road: The group of people carrying Trump flags approached @BetoORourke as he was leaving. It started with shouts but it ended with a fist-bump and a mutual understanding that both care for the country and love the democratic process.
- FBI still present at the home of Rep. Henry Cuellar’s in Laredo.
- As of today, I am no longer employed by KRGV-TV. About a month ago I was told they would not renew my contract. Instead of working hard at finding a new job, I just kept working hard — sometimes until 4 am. Now, on my tenth anniversary working in broadcast news, I am unemployed.
- Sen. Ted Cruz sent two letters this week to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary urging them to convene hearings that require testimony from top government officials over the situation at the border, and asked to include the McAllen mayor.
- A bright spot after such great loss. Venezuelans take turns holding their flag in downtown Brownsville.
00:00 - Replying to @ValOnTheBorderIf you’re looking for someone who knows South Texas well, is bilingual, can shoot and edit video, travels to Mexico, understands federal policy, familiar with immigration, federal courts, border security and can tell you what makes a good Mexican elote — let me know.
- Replying to @ValOnTheBorderThis video has been shared on social media showing COVID-19 patients in beds on hallways of this hospital converted into a COVID ward as Hanna’s rainwater kept rising in Reynosa, Tamaulipas. (Video does not belong to me.)
00:00 - NEW: Adults fighting kids for clean water, despondent toddlers and a child with swollen feet denied a medical exam - these first-hand accounts from immigrant families are offering a glimpse at conditions in TX detention centers. according to court filing.
- Replying to @ValOnTheBorderIn spite of Gov. Abbott’s conditions for the debate that is keeping an audience out of the debate venue tonight, O’Rourke said he’ll be carrying a card he received from Uvalde families with him into the hall.
- Replying to @ValOnTheBorder“They killed my daughter, because she was nearly a day and a half without being able to breathe,” Mabel Alvarez Benedicks, Anadith’s mother, said Friday. The 8 year-old had congenital heart disease and sickle cell anemia, conditions the mother communicated to officers, she said.
