Valerie Gonzalez

A statue of SpaceX founder Elon Musk on Saturday, May 3, 2025, is seen near the town of Boca Chica, Texas, that would become Starbase, Texas, if local residents approve a measure to make the area surrounding the rocket launch site its own city. (AP Photo/Valerie Gonzalez)

Musk gets his Texas wish. SpaceX launch site is approved as the new city of Starbase

By Valerie Gonzalez, Jim Vertuno, and others

FILE – A migrant seeking asylum holds up the CBP One app showing his appointment was canceled after President Donald Trump was sworn into office, Jan. 20, 2025, in Matamoros, Mexico. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Texas immigration lawyer, a U.S. citizen, in DHS mixup gets email telling him to leave immediately or risk deportation: ‘I just thought it was absurd’

By Valerie Gonzalez, Gisela Salomon, and others

FILE – Venezuelan migrant Yender Romero shows the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) One app on his cell phone, which he said he used to apply for asylum in the U.S. and is waiting on an answer, at a migrant tent camp outside La Soledad church in Mexico City, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

‘It’s time for you to abandon the United States’: Honduran family gets email as migrants who entered via Biden-era CBP One app are told to leave

By Valerie Gonzalez and The Associated Press

Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agent preparing to arrest alleged immigration violators

Los Fresnos bakery owner faces ruin for harboring undocumented immigrants after town backs Trump in 2024

By Valerie Gonzalez and The Associated Press

FILE – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detain someone during an enforcement operation, Jan. 27, 2025, in Silver Spring, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Colombian immigrant couple planning their wedding showed up for a routine ICE check-in and one was deported

By Valerie Gonzalez, Cedar Attanasio, and others

SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship is prepared for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Musk’s SpaceX moves closer to creating its own Starbase city as Texas county approves vote

By Valerie Gonzalez and The Associated Press

FILE – A boy looks through a border wall separating Mexico from the United States, Nov. 26, 2024, in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

ICE has deported 270,000 people in the last 12 months, the highest number since 2014

By Valerie Gonzalez, Elliot Spagat, and others

FILE- SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship prepares for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Elon Musk is trying to turn SpaceX’s Starbase launch site into an incorporated Texas city

By Valerie Gonzalez and The Associated Press

man boards up windows

Texas braces for Beryl as storm threatens to regain hurricane strength before making landfall

By Mark Vancleave, Valerie Gonzalez, and others

Spill booms surround a barge at the Pelican Island bridge in Galveston, Texas, Wednesday, May 16, 2024. The barge collided with the bridge Tuesday which caused a partial collapse of the bridge and spilled vacuum gas oil the barge was carrying into Galveston Bay. (Jennifer Reynolds/The Galveston County Daily News via AP)

Texas barge collision may have spilled 2,000 gallons of oil into Galveston Bay, Coast Guard says

By Lekan Oyekanmi, Valerie Gonzalez, and others

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Texas Parks and Wildlife votes unanimously to swap 43 contested acres to Elon Musk’s SpaceX for 477 acres a few miles south

By Valerie Gonzalez and The Associated Press

Texas wildfires

‘It’s a remarkable phenomenon’: More than 1 million acres of Texas land have burned in wildfires

By Valerie Gonzalez and The Associated Press

Crews work to deice an airplane at Denver International Airport in Denver, Colorado

Almost 3,000 flights canceled and 110,000 businesses and homes without power after massive cold blast slams U.S.

By Carolyn Thompson, Matthew Brown, and others

Three young migrants traveling on a freight train crossing the border were discovered by the border patrol and asked to get off the train in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico on May 11, 2021. (Photo by David Peinado/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Closure of 2 railroad crossing with Mexico leaves 10,000 rail cars sitting on both sides of the border and ‘impacts all of America’

By Valerie Gonzalez and The Associated Press

FILE – A border wall section stands on July 14, 2021, near La Grulla, Texas, in Starr County. On Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023, the Biden administration announced that they waived 26 federal laws in South Texas to allow border wall construction, marking the administration’s first use of a sweeping executive power employed often during the Trump presidency. The Department of Homeland Security posted the announcement with few details outlining the construction in Starr County, Texas. (Delcia Lopez/The Monitor via AP, File)

Biden administration is waiving 26 federal laws to allow more construction on the Texas border wall

By Valerie Gonzalez and The Associated Press