
<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...


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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.
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Signup to Generate a PitchBorder 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.
Recent episodes include "‘Dreamer’ still faces removal after being deported, allowed back, rearrested, released" (8 May 2026, 25 minutes), "Border buoys going up in Rio Grande in Laredo, official says" (7 May 2026, 25 minutes), and "Migrant women find sanctuary in churches in new film" (6 May 2026, 26 minutes).
Border Report Live publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 26 minutes across 100 episodes.
Booking probability for Border Report Live is 33%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Border Report Live requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Border Report Live's contact route on record: public web form.
The strongest fits for Border Report Live are Courts, Police & Public Safety and Economic Development & Regulation. Border Report Live has a news audience.
Border Report Live is a news podcast with 100 episodes published.
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<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...

<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...

<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...

<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...

<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...

<p>The recent arrest of a cartel leader has sparked a rash of violence in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas.</p> <p>The capture of Alexander Benavides Flores, known as “El Metro 9,” a leader within the Gulf Cartel...

<p>During a recent congressional oversight visit to a migrant detention facility that holds pregnant youth in San Benito, Texas, U.S. Rep. Maxine Dexter, D-Oregon, says she didn’t see one child.</p> <p>Dexter says she...

Episode #156
<p>The Carnalismo National Brown Berets RGV Chapter is continuing a tradition of helping farmworkers on the South Texas border as it rallies the community against what they call unlawful arrests and detention by U.S...

Episode #155
<p>The 17th death of a migrant held in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention so far this year raises serious concerns on oversight and how for-profit facilities are operating, Syracuse University professor...

<p>At least three days a week, Jesuit Catholic priest Brian Strassburger goes to Mexico to celebrate Mass and minister to asylum-seeking migrants in towns south of the border, and those living in migrant shelters.</p>...

<p>A Venezuelan man pleaded his case to asylum officials on Thursday in an interview that his wife, a well-known doctor in South Texas, planned to attend until she was detained at the airport with the couple’s...

<p>Over 600 people signed up for a webinar on Wednesday evening to learn how to monitor and thwart U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement expansion activities in local communities.</p> <p>The “ICE Out Everywhere” free...

<p>A new report by two nonprofits says that conditions at the nation’s largest migrant detention facility operating in South Texas are “inhumane.”</p> <p>The report “A New Era of ICE Family Prisons” by Human Rights...

<p>The parents of an 8-year-old girl who died in Border Patrol custody in 2023 in Harlingen, have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the federal government with the help of several nonprofit organizations.</p>...

Episode #149
<p>The author of a new book on family separation and migration during the first Trump administration spoke with dozens of families and children from Latin America who spent months apart due to U.S. immigration...

Episode #148
<p>The Border Report team this week said goodbye to not one but two correspondents — Salvador Rivera and Julian Resendiz.</p> <p>Both joined host Rudy Mireles throughout the week to look back on the past six or seven...

Episode #147
<p>The Trump administration recently ordered the state of California to revoke the commercial driver’s licenses of thousands of immigrants, and there’s no telling when or if they’ll get them back.</p> <p>According to...

Episode #146
<p>The Border Report correspondents join host Rudy Mireles to discuss some of the topics they’ve covered in the past several years.</p> <p>Border Report launched in the summer of 2019. San Diego correspondent Salvador...

<p>Two South Texas lawmakers on Tuesday toured a federal detention facility in this border town where pregnant migrant teens are being sent, some as young as 13.</p> <p>U.S. Reps. Vicente Gonzalez and Joaquin Castro...

<p>As the city of El Paso, Texas expands the issues of immigration and cartel violence grow with it.</p> <p>El Paso correspondent Julian Resendiz looks back at the city he has covered for Border Report for nearly a...
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