Valerie Gonzalez

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  • 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)Politics

    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)Politics

    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)Politics

    ‘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 violatorsPolitics

    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)Politics

    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)Politics

    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)Politics

    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)Tech

    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 windowsEnvironment

    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)Environment

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

    By Lekan Oyekanmi, Valerie Gonzalez, and others
  • SpaceXTech

    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 wildfiresEnvironment

    ‘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, ColoradoEnvironment

    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)Politics

    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)Politics

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

    By Valerie Gonzalez and The Associated Press