During questioning of Laredo's mayor, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee of Houston drove that point home.
He says the Republican's bill that includes hundreds of miles of border walls would devastate Laredo.
Two years ago, the turf battle was over Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Laredo, Texas.
In December, 2010, a hundred and fifty-one Zetas broke out of jail in Nuevo Laredo.
The police chief in nearby Nuevo Laredo was gunned down his first day on the job.
Laredo Petroleum Holdings Inc shares are currently trading off about 2% on the day.
Jose Luis Gonzales loved spending weekends at his ranchette outside the border town of Laredo, Texas.
NPR's Carrie Kahn was at a hearing in Laredo, Texas last night, and she has this report.
He grew up around Laredo, when his family wasn't moving with his father, an Air Force pilot.
Martinez has pleaded not guilty to bulk cash smuggling and is being held in a Laredo prison.
Number crunching has also helped in Laredo, where overall crime fell 16% last year, says Mr Baeza.
The setting for this latest hearing was a hotel in downtown Laredo just two blocks from the Mexico border.
In 2010, fire caused a 787 test flight to lose primary electrical power while flying from Yuma, Arizona, to Laredo, Texas.
On May 4th nine bodies were found hanging from a bridge, and 14 decapitated, in Nuevo Laredo, a Zeta stronghold in Tamaulipas.
Investigator Ricardo Mancillas Castillo said he had not encountered a threat against Internet users in his four years based in Nuevo Laredo.
Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay survived yesterday's Republican primary in Sugarland, Texas, while Democrat Henry Cuellar beat back a challenge in Laredo.
Spain's second-largest bank, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), in September acquired Laredo National Bancshares, which has a 23% market share in the Texas-Mexico border area.
Laredo Mayor Raul Salinas says he's worried about defending his townspeople.
Nuevo Laredo is close to the Interstate 35 corridor, and Juarez has easy access to I-10, a major east-west interstate, and I-25, which runs north to Denver, Colorado.
Is it right to say that's OK for suburban schools but it's not OK for a kid in or Laredo, Texas, or the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, D.
In the case of the two victims found on the Nuevo Laredo bridge Tuesday, their ears and fingers were mutilated, said Mancillas, who works for the public prosecutor's office.
In June, in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, the police chief and then his successor were gunned down in drug-related shootings, the second chief just hours after he took office.
Similar threats closed the border crossings in Laredo, Texas.
And Rodriguez, who lost two years ago, said, wait a second, this is not what we elect Democrats for, especially in an overwhelmingly Democratic district, which is San Antonio and Laredo and things like that.
But it all came to an end one morning in July, when he got stopped in Laredo, Tex. by a U.S. customs agent just as he was about to cross the Lincoln-Juarez Bridge into Mexico.
This week, a man and a woman in their 20s were tortured, killed and hung from a bridge in Nuevo Laredo, with signs by their bodies saying the death sentence was for their Internet use.
FORBES: Two People Killed For 'Posting Funny Things On The Internet' In Mexico
Eventually, he will probably follow Mr Morales in trying to turn Mr Sanchez's business experience against him: one of his Laredo banks failed in the 1980s savings-and-loan scandal, and he was investigated for laundering drug money.
Stratfo notes that two individuals were murdered and hung from a bridge in Nuevo Laredo bearing signs warning not to post on blogs, while a girl who contributed to anti-cartel blogs was found beheaded in Nuevo Laredo.
In Laredo, Texas, school officials are considering asking next year's seniors to sign a contract agreeing graduation ceremonies are a privilege that can be revoked for bad behavior, said Veronica Castillon, a spokeswoman for the Laredo Independent School District.
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