During questioning of Laredo's mayor, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee of Houston drove that point home.
Two years ago, the turf battle was over Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Laredo, Texas.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And as nobody in Britain, France, Germany, or even Belgium, pays the least attention to whomsoever runs Luxembourg (whereas even modest-sized American cities have suburbs with accountable elected mayors), perhaps better comparisons might be Henderson, Nevada, Hialeah, Florida, or Laredo, Texas.
The Zetas, who are estimated to have more than ten thousand fighters, control virtually the entire east coast of Mexico, and have laid claim to several of the busiest cargo crossing points on the U.S. border, including Matamoros, Reynosa, and Nuevo Laredo.
Among the largest underlying components of XOP, in trading today Rex Energy Corp ( NASD: REXX) is up about 0.2%, Comstock Resources, Inc. ( NYSE: CRK) is down about 0.9%, and Laredo Petroleum Holdings Inc ( NYSE: LPI) is lower by about 0.3%.
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In addition to affording the harvesters a living, the peyote business helps funnel the dollars of Indian peyote-seekers to restaurants and hotels in large cities like Laredo as well as small towns like Rio Grande City, which is home to five of the seven licensed harvesters.
Our ranking of Best Places looks at the 200 largest metropolitan statistical areas in the U.S. These range in size from the New York City metro, with to 11.6 million people, to Laredo, Texas, home to 252, 000 people (click here for a list of the Best Small Places for Business).
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