Did you know the Underground Railroad passed through the Rio Grande Valley?
Instead of heading north,
some escaped slaves headed to Mexico,
which had abolished slavery
more than 30 years before the Civil War in the U.S. started.
Those who were already in Texas and serving on plantations in East Texas
already had knowledge of pathways of how to get down to the border
as they were shepherding the plantation owners' cotton
down to the ports down here.
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley's
Community Historical Archaeology Project with Schools learned
escaped slaves heading to Mexico knew of families who could help them.
They knew of the Webbers.
They knew of the Jacksons.
Both ranches had ferry landings on their property,
which made it easy for them to shepherd these escaped slaves
over the river, across over into Mexico.
But what's really interesting about these two particular families
is that they both had white husbands and emancipated black slave wives.
Just like others who were part of the Underground Railroad,
these families faced risks because of the Fugitive Slave Act,
which allowed the capture of escaped slaves
and punishment of those aiding them.
There were plenty of folks out there who were afraid
this fugitive slave act would would cause them harm.
While reaching Mexico was the original destination for escaped slaves,
not everyone made the final trip across the Rio Grande.
Some of them didn't actually go all the way over the border.
They liked it here so much they stayed.
A church and two cemeteries in San Juan
where members of the Jackson family were buried
are the few remnants of this part of Rio Grande Valley history.
There really aren't any primary sources left behind
like letters or documents stating that somebody participated
in this activity because it was secret.
So it's up to us as historians and those who are trying
to piece together this story
to dig deep and uncover items and stitch together the story.
A film and presentation about this research will be shared during FESTIBA.
You can find the schedule online at U-T-R-G-V dot E-D-U slash festiba.
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Cold Rain, Storms Move Through North Texas - Duration: 2:32.
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Attend 2019 Texas REALTORS® Conference in Fort Worth - Duration: 2:27.
Join us for the statewide real estate event of the year:
the Texas REALTORS® Conference.
Thousands of REALTORS® from across the state will
gather in Fort Worth from Sept. 12-15 to hear
the latest on trends and issues affecting real estate.
While you're there, take advantage of more than 40 hours of continuing education
aimed to help you grow your business and mitigate risk.
Expand your professional network by attending our receptions
and visiting our exhibit showcase.
Here are some highlights:
Kick off your experience by joining us for an inspiring Opening Session,
featuring keynote speaker and former NBA player and author Walter Bond.
Be prepared for fun, laughs, and straight talk about life
as he teaches that success is possible in spite of adversity.
Afterwards, enjoy time with colleagues during the lively Welcome Reception,
sponsored by the Greater Fort Worth Association of REALTORS®.
Next, get in tune with trends on commercial real estate,
public policy, and more on Friday, Sept. 13.
Learn about the most current legislative issues affecting your business,
and hear special guest speakers during the ever-popular
Government Affairs Forum.
Saturday, Sept. 14, is game day at the Texas REALTORS® Conference Trade Expo.
Tailgate in your favorite sports team apparel,
all while learning about the latest real estate products,
services, and technologies from over 150 vendors.
Be sure to attend to participate in prize drawings throughout the day.
You can get continuing education throughout the conference.
But Sept. 15 is specifically dedicated to delivering
courses on the most popular real estate topics.
Get access to top-level instruction in a convenient location.
Events will be held at the Fort Worth Convention Center,
located downtown next to the Omni Fort Worth Hotel.
Reserve your space early through online registration at texasrealtorsconference.com,
and be sure to look for information in the special conference brochure
with the July issue of Texas REALTOR® magazine.
We look forward to seeing you there!
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Texas Father Slapped 12-Year-Old Who He Said Bullied His Stepdaughter On Valentine's Day, Police Say - Duration: 0:37.
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Texas boy sells hot chocolate to help pay for border wall - Duration: 1:18.
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LULAC takes Texas to court over voter list - Duration: 1:42.
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Texas couple arrested after 2 year old daughter was found D3ad in container of acid New York Daily - Duration: 1:23.
Texas couple arrested after 2 year old daughter was found D3ad in container of acid New York Daily
A Texas couple is behind bars after they allegedly soaked their 2 year old daughters corpse in a five gallon tub of acid.
Monica Dominguez, 37, told police that two of her children, including 2 year old Rebecka, were bathing unsupervised when the toddler drowned in the tub Thursday, according to the Laredo Morning Times.
Dominguez then claimed that she asked her husband, 32 year old Gerardo Zavala Loredo, to help dispose of their daughters body.
Police searched their apartment after a neighbor tipped them off, and found a five gallon container in a bedroom closet with Rebeckas remains, as well as what appeared to be acid.
Officials are still waiting on an examination before ruling the death accidental.
"We need to wait to see what the science tells us," Webb County District Attorney Isidro "Chilo" Alaniz told the Morning Times. "Right now theres more questions than answers,"
Dominguez and Zavala Loredo were both charged with child endangerment, abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence.
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Modernizing Texas State Hospitals - Duration: 2:04.
Welcome, everybody. I appreciate everybody coming today.
We've been appropriated dollars to start planning for the construction of new hospitals.
We've partnered with the University of Texas in Houston and in San Antonio and in Austin to lead that effort for us.
Currently, we have a waitlist of Texans of more than 700 waiting.
This allows us to add more than 300 beds to our state system for mental health services.
So, it provides a quality level of service that we've been providing, but it also matches them to the residential piece of it.
And so, it provides a modern-day approach.
Having a modern-day facility and a modern-day health care environment leads to much better health outcomes.
It's a very exciting time, I think, for Texas to step up and take the lead in, "How do we best take care of our citizens?"
This program proves how government is supposed to work.
We've done it in a methodical way.
We've included broad stakeholder groups to be a part of this.
So, this is one of those instances where we had real need, but we're being smart about how to address it.
This really matters to the everyday Texan because, unfortunately, mental illness affects one out of every four of us.
Some of us are going to actually have maybe a severe crisis or a severe illness.
And that affects all of us.
It could be your neighbor.
It could be a family member.
It could be a loved one.
It could be someone you don't even know, but you care about because they're a part of your community.
And so, we all benefit.
It's a recommitment from all stakeholders who have been a part of this:
Our legislative body, our governor, the universities who have done the analysis, and our team members
who show up and show out, day in and day out, to serve.
Thank you to our team.
We appreciate the work that you do.
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Texas cotton - Duration: 1:28:27.
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Abandoned courthouse, jail is all that is left of Frio Town, Texas - Duration: 2:33.
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Trump prevails as Mexican officials stop caravan at Texas border and ship migrants to other cities - Duration: 3:09.
Trump prevails as Mexican officials stop caravan at Texas border and ship migrants to other cities
Last week, a caravan of 1,800 Central American migrants arrived in this isolated Mexican border city, where police ushered them into a makeshift government shelter at a shuttered factory surrounded by chain link fence.
As conditions at the shelter deteriorated, riots erupted last Wednesday. Migrants broke through security barriers and struggled with guards. Some threw pipes, tables, chairs and parts of a tent at Mexican officers. Migrant advocates and reporters were barred from the facility, which was surrounded by dozens of federal police in riot gear.
On the other side of the Rio Grande, in the sleepy town of Eagle Pass, Texas, 250 troops and scores of Border Patrol agents were sent to shore up defenses as President Trump vowed to stop this latest caravan.
For the moment, Trump appears to have gotten his way.
As of Tuesday, the shelter was closing, with all but one group of migrant family members sent to other, larger border cities, where prospects of entering the United States were little better.
The last 18 migrants would be allowed to seek asylum at the border bridge to Texas, officials said. Speaking through the shelter fence Tuesday, some said they had proof, including photos, that they were fleeing persecution. It wasnt clear why they were chosen, while others were not allowed to reach the citys two border bridges across the Rio Grande. But a Honduran official said the overall group of 1,800 was simply too large for U.S. officials to process there.
There isnt space, said Jose Carlos Ponce, the Honduran consul in Saltillo who was at the shelter Tuesday.
U.S. officials have said they generally process 15 asylum seekers a day at Eagle Pass, but increased that to about 20 after the caravan arrived.
Local officials in Piedras Negras paid to bus most of the caravan travelers to larger Mexican cities, including Juarez, Hermosillo, Monterrey and Reynosa, according to a psychologist with Doctors Without Borders, which was on hand to provide healthcare. Juarez and Reynosa are on the border across from the Texas cities of El Paso and Hidalgo, respectively. Hermosillo and Monterrey are in the Mexican interior.
Theres a list of sites. They decide, said the psychologist, Yovanna Lopez, as she sat outside the shelter where she had been treating migrants for nearly a week.
It wasnt clear how many were leaving by choice.
I dont want to leave, Merlin Linares Rodriguez, 23, said late Monday.
The Salvadoran single mother was traveling with son Jose Garcia Linares, 7, to join a friend in San Francisco.
We tried to do it legally. They just tell us its not allowed, she said, and began to cry as she sat by the side of the road opposite the shelter, hoping for a ride to the river where she would try to cross illegally.
When officials started allowing migrants to leave the shelter for short periods this week, Linares said she saw some asylum seekers attempt to cross the border bridges.
They tear up your visa, she said of Mexican officials stationed at the bridges.
Leyli Rodriguez, 26, fled Nicaragua with her two cousins to join her sister in Midland, Texas, but said Mexican officials at the shelter told them U.S. holding areas for asylum seekers were full.
They said we can go to Reynosa, but we dont want to. Its dangerous. We could get kidnapped, she said. This is the safest place to be on the border.
The migrants will probably join swelling waiting lists of asylum seekers as the U.S. expands a new policy after applying for asylum. Already, other asylum seekers have been , and Trump administration officials said they planned to expand the policy to Piedras Negras.
Piedras Negras population 150,000 and its sister city, Eagle Pass population 28,000 , fit a familiar pattern on the border: The Mexican city dwarfs its U.S. counterpart. Eagle Pass is an outpost, a setting for the films No Country for Old Men and Lone Star. Below the border bridges is a golf course, where carts passed a dozen Border Patrol trucks Tuesday. Neither city has the immigrant advocacy groups found in other border communities such as Brownsville, El Paso or San Diego.
In those cities, U.S. lawyers have volunteered to accompany migrants seeking asylum at border bridges, assisting them if authorities attempt to bar them from entering. But migrants at the Piedras Negras shelter said no lawyers were allowed into the shelter to help them seek asylum.
Outside the shelter, uniformed Mexican immigration officials sat at tables with laptops issuing temporary identification cards and visas that allowed the Central Americans to travel within the country, some for just a few weeks.
If they try to cross illegally, the card is void, said Manuel Gamez Reyes, a spokesman for the city stationed at the shelter.
About 300 of the migrants were granted permission to stay and work in Mexico, he said. The rest had to relocate. He acknowledged that most of the migrants were fleeing violence in Central America. But he said cities like his cant help them.
This is not a permanent shelter, Gamez said, gesturing to a pile of scores of pallets in the parking lot outside that migrants had been given so they could sleep on the factory floor.
It would cost the city dollar 260,000 to operate the shelter for a month, including food, staff and utilities, he said. Hes been working 12 hour days.
Gamez remembered feeling relieved when the first caravan went to Tijuana in December. This group moved more rapidly, he said, with help from municipal officials in Mexicos interior.
Nobody wants them in their cities because its a lot of spending, he said. Its better for us if they leave. Were a small city. We cant afford the costs.
The buses were a Catch 22 for some of the migrants, a return to cities where they already failed to cross.
Francisco Banegas, 29, said he joined the caravan to Piedras Negras after being deported to his native Honduras during the December caravan to Tijuana. The construction worker and father of four left the shelter this week with a temporary visa hoping to find work to save the dollar 6,000 he estimates hell need to pay a smuggler to get him across the Rio Grande illegally.
What else am I supposed to do? he said.
Luci Herrera Castillo said she fled Honduras with her two children after her 14 year old daughter was raped last fall and the rapists father, a neighbor, threatened them. A single mother who worked doing washing and ironing, Herrera has another daughter she hoped to join in San Jose.
I want to present myself at the bridge, but they wont let me, she said of officials at the shelter. They say we have to go.
She planned to try her luck crossing the river illegally without a smuggler, whom she couldnt afford. On Sunday night, she said, 20 migrants disappeared from the shelter, probably bound for the river.
Were the last because we dont have money to cross the river, said Yolanda Castaneda, a Honduran traveling with her 2 year old son, Nemar, to join a friend in Kansas.
Castaneda, 26, knew the river passage was dangerous. On Thursday, Border Patrol agents found the body of a man floating near one of the border bridges. But she and Nemar would not be boarding the buses. They would try to cross the river, she said, even though her son didnt know how to swim. By Tuesday, they were gone.
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Texas Collection at Baylor to honor Doris Miller - Duration: 0:26.
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The sun returns to SE Texas Wednesday Afternoon - Duration: 2:26.
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Bill Vessey's Forecast for South Texas for Wednesday, February 20, 2019 - Duration: 3:28.
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The Process of Home Inspection in Austin texas Call (512)9573963 for more information - Duration: 1:05.
The process of home inspection Austin texas
The home inspector will evaluate
the roofing
built-in appliances
site drainage
The windows
The fences
The stairs
fireplaces
plumbing
electrical system
And much more
all these details will be written in the report for the buyer to review
With this information, the buyer will decide on whether to purchase the home or not
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Homeschooling numbers increase in Texas - Duration: 1:28.
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What's the cost of football helmets? A guideline from Central Texas coaches - Duration: 4:17.
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Texas Master Naturalist Annual Training - Duration: 1:56.
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Trump prevails as Mexican officials stop caravan at Texas border and ship migrants to other cities - Duration: 5:54.
Trump prevails as Mexican officials stop caravan at Texas border and ship migrants to other cities
Last week, a caravan of 1,800 Central American migrants arrived in this isolated Mexican border city, where police ushered them into a makeshift government shelter at a shuttered factory surrounded by chain link fence.
As conditions at the shelter deteriorated, riots erupted last Wednesday. Migrants broke through security barriers and struggled with guards. Some threw pipes, tables, chairs and parts of a tent at Mexican officers. Migrant advocates and reporters were barred from the facility, which was surrounded by dozens of federal police in riot gear.
On the other side of the Rio Grande, in the sleepy town of Eagle Pass, Texas, 250 troops and scores of Border Patrol agents were sent to shore up defenses as President Trump vowed to stop this latest caravan.
For the moment, Trump appears to have gotten his way.
As of Tuesday, the shelter was closing, with all but one group of migrant family members sent to other, larger border cities, where prospects of entering the United States were little better.
The last 18 migrants would be allowed to seek asylum at the border bridge to Texas, officials said. Speaking through the shelter fence Tuesday, some said they had proof, including photos, that they were fleeing persecution. It wasnt clear why they were chosen, while others were not allowed to reach the citys two border bridges across the Rio Grande. But a Honduran official said the overall group of 1,800 was simply too large for U.S. officials to process there.
There isnt space, said Jose Carlos Ponce, the Honduran consul in Saltillo who was at the shelter Tuesday.
U.S. officials have said they generally process 15 asylum seekers a day at Eagle Pass, but increased that to about 20 after the caravan arrived.
Local officials in Piedras Negras paid to bus most of the caravan travelers to larger Mexican cities, including Juarez, Hermosillo, Monterrey and Reynosa, according to a psychologist with Doctors Without Borders, which was on hand to provide healthcare. Juarez and Reynosa are on the border across from the Texas cities of El Paso and Hidalgo, respectively. Hermosillo and Monterrey are in the Mexican interior.
Theres a list of sites. They decide, said the psychologist, Yovanna Lopez, as she sat outside the shelter where she had been treating migrants for nearly a week.
It wasnt clear how many were leaving by choice.
I dont want to leave, Merlin Linares Rodriguez, 23, said late Monday.
The Salvadoran single mother was traveling with son Jose Garcia Linares, 7, to join a friend in San Francisco.
We tried to do it legally. They just tell us its not allowed, she said, and began to cry as she sat by the side of the road opposite the shelter, hoping for a ride to the river where she would try to cross illegally.
When officials started allowing migrants to leave the shelter for short periods this week, Linares said she saw some asylum seekers attempt to cross the border bridges.
They tear up your visa, she said of Mexican officials stationed at the bridges.
Leyli Rodriguez, 26, fled Nicaragua with her two cousins to join her sister in Midland, Texas, but said Mexican officials at the shelter told them U.S. holding areas for asylum seekers were full.
They said we can go to Reynosa, but we dont want to. Its dangerous. We could get kidnapped, she said. This is the safest place to be on the border.
The migrants will probably join swelling waiting lists of asylum seekers as the U.S. expands a new policy after applying for asylum. Already, other asylum seekers have been , and Trump administration officials said they planned to expand the policy to Piedras Negras.
Piedras Negras population 150,000 and its sister city, Eagle Pass population 28,000 , fit a familiar pattern on the border: The Mexican city dwarfs its U.S. counterpart. Eagle Pass is an outpost, a setting for the films No Country for Old Men and Lone Star. Below the border bridges is a golf course, where carts passed a dozen Border Patrol trucks Tuesday. Neither city has the immigrant advocacy groups found in other border communities such as Brownsville, El Paso or San Diego.
In those cities, U.S. lawyers have volunteered to accompany migrants seeking asylum at border bridges, assisting them if authorities attempt to bar them from entering. But migrants at the Piedras Negras shelter said no lawyers were allowed into the shelter to help them seek asylum.
Outside the shelter, uniformed Mexican immigration officials sat at tables with laptops issuing temporary identification cards and visas that allowed the Central Americans to travel within the country, some for just a few weeks.
If they try to cross illegally, the card is void, said Manuel Gamez Reyes, a spokesman for the city stationed at the shelter.
About 300 of the migrants were granted permission to stay and work in Mexico, he said. The rest had to relocate. He acknowledged that most of the migrants were fleeing violence in Central America. But he said cities like his cant help them.
This is not a permanent shelter, Gamez said, gesturing to a pile of scores of pallets in the parking lot outside that migrants had been given so they could sleep on the factory floor.
It would cost the city dollar 260,000 to operate the shelter for a month, including food, staff and utilities, he said. Hes been working 12 hour days.
Gamez remembered feeling relieved when the first caravan went to Tijuana in December. This group moved more rapidly, he said, with help from municipal officials in Mexicos interior.
Nobody wants them in their cities because its a lot of spending, he said. Its better for us if they leave. Were a small city. We cant afford the costs.
The buses were a Catch 22 for some of the migrants, a return to cities where they already failed to cross.
Francisco Banegas, 29, said he joined the caravan to Piedras Negras after being deported to his native Honduras during the December caravan to Tijuana. The construction worker and father of four left the shelter this week with a temporary visa hoping to find work to save the dollar 6,000 he estimates hell need to pay a smuggler to get him across the Rio Grande illegally.
What else am I supposed to do? he said.
Luci Herrera Castillo said she fled Honduras with her two children after her 14 year old daughter was raped last fall and the rapists father, a neighbor, threatened them. A single mother who worked doing washing and ironing, Herrera has another daughter she hoped to join in San Jose.
I want to present myself at the bridge, but they wont let me, she said of officials at the shelter. They say we have to go.
She planned to try her luck crossing the river illegally without a smuggler, whom she couldnt afford. On Sunday night, she said, 20 migrants disappeared from the shelter, probably bound for the river.
Were the last because we dont have money to cross the river, said Yolanda Castaneda, a Honduran traveling with her 2 year old son, Nemar, to join a friend in Kansas.
Castaneda, 26, knew the river passage was dangerous. On Thursday, Border Patrol agents found the body of a man floating near one of the border bridges. But she and Nemar would not be boarding the buses. They would try to cross the river, she said, even though her son didnt know how to swim. By Tuesday, they were gone.
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Texas couple arrested after 2 year old daughter was found D3ad in container of acid New York Daily - Duration: 1:26.
Texas couple arrested after 2 year old daughter was found D3ad in container of acid New York Daily
A Texas couple is behind bars after they allegedly soaked their 2 year old daughters corpse in a five gallon tub of acid.
Monica Dominguez, 37, told police that two of her children, including 2 year old Rebecka, were bathing unsupervised when the toddler drowned in the tub Thursday, according to the Laredo Morning Times.
Dominguez then claimed that she asked her husband, 32 year old Gerardo Zavala Loredo, to help dispose of their daughters body.
Police searched their apartment after a neighbor tipped them off, and found a five gallon container in a bedroom closet with Rebeckas remains, as well as what appeared to be acid.
Officials are still waiting on an examination before ruling the death accidental.
"We need to wait to see what the science tells us," Webb County District Attorney Isidro "Chilo" Alaniz told the Morning Times. "Right now theres more questions than answers,"
Dominguez and Zavala Loredo were both charged with child endangerment, abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence.
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