5 months ago
Daily illegal border crossings between the ports of entry continue to decrease as TxDPS, USBP, & Military Forces maintain a unified presence along the border to deter illegal border crossings & target criminal threats.
Texas Border Crossings 2/3/25:
El Paso - 98
RGV - 50
Del Rio - 58
Laredo - 23
Big Bend - 4
Total: 446 (includes 9 sectors from Texas, Arizona, & California) OperationLoneStar
- Lt. Chris Olivarez Spokesperson for the Texas Department of Public Safety
Texas Border Crossings 2/3/25:
El Paso - 98
RGV - 50
Del Rio - 58
Laredo - 23
Big Bend - 4
Total: 446 (includes 9 sectors from Texas, Arizona, & California) OperationLoneStar
- Lt. Chris Olivarez Spokesperson for the Texas Department of Public Safety
8 months ago
Rio Grande Valley, Texas
Huey Magoo’s, a Florida-based chicken tender concept, is making its way to the Rio Grande Valley!
The Florida-based company currently has more than 60 stores in the country, and this Tuesday they announced that their fast-casual concept will be expanding to Texas, Virginia, and Arizona!
In Texas, Huey Magoo’s will open 10 new restaurants in San Antonio, three in Laredo and 10 in the Rio Grande Valley.
Huey Magoo’s says it uses only real tenders from the tenderloin, which it identifies as the best 3% of the chicken. The restaurant offers chicken tenders, salads, sandwiches and wraps, and it says the tenders are all natural with no preservatives.
Huey Magoo’s, a Florida-based chicken tender concept, is making its way to the Rio Grande Valley!
The Florida-based company currently has more than 60 stores in the country, and this Tuesday they announced that their fast-casual concept will be expanding to Texas, Virginia, and Arizona!
In Texas, Huey Magoo’s will open 10 new restaurants in San Antonio, three in Laredo and 10 in the Rio Grande Valley.
Huey Magoo’s says it uses only real tenders from the tenderloin, which it identifies as the best 3% of the chicken. The restaurant offers chicken tenders, salads, sandwiches and wraps, and it says the tenders are all natural with no preservatives.
2 yr. ago
The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day:
Many Texans know that Harlon Block, a Texan, is the man planting the flag on the far right in the famous photo of the marines raising the flag on Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945. Sadly, Block was killed in action just a week later, on March 1, 1945. When that photo was released it was an instant sensation back home. Everybody wanted to know the identities of the Marines in the photo, but Harlon Block's back was to the camera and he was misidentified as another Marine who had also lost his life on the island. For two years, the Marine holding the pole was thought to be Henry Hanson.
But in May, 1946 the man shown in this photo, Ira Hayes, appeared at the home of Ed Block, Harlon Block's father, in Weslaco, Texas. Having hitchhiked 1300 miles in three days from his home on the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona, Ira Hayes ---- who had fought on Iwo Jima and survived the war ---- walked out into the cotton field where Ed Block was working. There the native Pima Indian told him that the man planting the flag in the picture was actually his son, Harlon.
After only a few minutes of conversation, Hayes turned around and hitchhiked back home to Arizona, his last service to a fellow Marine completed. After an inquiry, Harlon Block was correctly identified and took his honored place in history.
Ira Hayes died in 1955 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
- Via Traces of Texas
Many Texans know that Harlon Block, a Texan, is the man planting the flag on the far right in the famous photo of the marines raising the flag on Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945. Sadly, Block was killed in action just a week later, on March 1, 1945. When that photo was released it was an instant sensation back home. Everybody wanted to know the identities of the Marines in the photo, but Harlon Block's back was to the camera and he was misidentified as another Marine who had also lost his life on the island. For two years, the Marine holding the pole was thought to be Henry Hanson.
But in May, 1946 the man shown in this photo, Ira Hayes, appeared at the home of Ed Block, Harlon Block's father, in Weslaco, Texas. Having hitchhiked 1300 miles in three days from his home on the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona, Ira Hayes ---- who had fought on Iwo Jima and survived the war ---- walked out into the cotton field where Ed Block was working. There the native Pima Indian told him that the man planting the flag in the picture was actually his son, Harlon.
After only a few minutes of conversation, Hayes turned around and hitchhiked back home to Arizona, his last service to a fellow Marine completed. After an inquiry, Harlon Block was correctly identified and took his honored place in history.
Ira Hayes died in 1955 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
- Via Traces of Texas
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