Border Report Live

Border Report Live provides real-time delivery of the untold local stories about people living, working and migrating along the U.S. border with Mexico. The information is gathered by experienced and trusted Nexstar Media Group journalists hired specifically to cover the border. The team is led by Salvador Rivera reporting from San Diego, Julian Resendiz reporting from El Paso and Sandra Sanchez reporting from McAllen. Listeners can count on a straightforward, trustworthy, daily approach to breaking news and key issues facing those living through the issues developing from San Diego to Brownsville.

Border Report Live is a news podcast hosted by borderreportlive, with 100 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #163

  ‘Dreamer’ still faces removal after being deported, allowed back, rearrested, released

  May 8, 202625 minS0

  <p>A Texas DACA recipient who was arrested and deported by ICE before being allowed to return to the U.S. only to be rearrested upon re-entry, has been released from detention.</p> <p>José Contreras Diaz, 30, of Edinburg, Texas, as released Wednesday from the Port Isabel Detention Center in the South Texas border town of Los Fresnos, where he had been held since April 29, the national immigration group FWD.us says.</p> <p>“I would not wish what I’ve been through on anyone. They detained me, sent me to a country I barely remember, and then gave me hope...

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  Episode #162

  Border buoys going up in Rio Grande in Laredo, official says

  May 7, 202625 minS0

  <p>The federal government has begun installing waterborne buoys in the Rio Grande in Laredo, Texas, City Councilwoman Melissa Cigarroa says.</p> <p>Construction began Wednesday, Cigarroa said on Thursday’s episode Border Report Live.</p> <p>She said the council has been told they cannot stop the installation of the giant orange buoys, which are meant to stop immigration from Mexico.</p> <p>But she says they are working hard to slow it down and study the process of border wall barrier being put on the banks of the Rio Grande through downtown Laredo.</p>

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  Episode #161

  Migrant women find sanctuary in churches in new film

  May 6, 202626 minS0

  <p>The director of a new documentary film about two migrant women who sought sanctuary from U.S. immigration authorities in two Colorado churches for years says that is no longer an option for migrants today.</p> <p>In the latest episode of Border Report Live, Theo Rigby, director and producer of “If I Could Stay/Si Pudiera Quedarme” tells South Texas correspondent Sandra Sanchez and host Rudy Mireles about how he chronicled the two women over eight years starting 2017 through 2025.</p> <p>They spent thousands of days living in the two different churches, which caused some strife for the cong...

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  Episode #160

  US indictments link sitting Mexican officials to drug trafficking

  May 4, 202630 minS0

  <p>Newly unsealed U.S. indictments accusing sitting Mexican politicians and senior law enforcement officials of drug trafficking and corruption are impacting Mexico’s political system.</p> <p>On the latest episode of Border Report Live, host Rudy Mireles speaks with Ev Meade, director of Proceso Pacífico, about the unprecedented case involving a sitting governor, a senator, a city mayor and multiple high-ranking security officials accused of working with the Sinaloa cartel.</p> <p>Meade breaks down how extradition requests between the United States and Mexico work, why Mexican authorities are reviewing evidence before acting, and what past cases sho...

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  Episode #159

  What happens if Temporary Protected Status is revoked?

  Apr 30, 202630 minS0

  <p>The proposed elimination of Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of immigrants would cause economic and societal hardships to the United States, a professor said on this episode of Border Report Live.</p> <p>The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on why the Trump administration wants to revoke Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of people from other countries who are allowed to legally live and work in the United States under the program.</p> <p>If TPS is lifted it would affect an estimated 1.3 million people, including 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians. They would not...

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