The head of the U.S. International Boundary and Water Commission visited the Rio Grande Valley this week and declared that Mexico's lack of water payments to the United States is "dire."
It is mission critical time; some agriculture production may cease and businesses shuttered if water is not released now and every year per the treaty, says Sen. Cornyn.
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In this region of South Texas where Donald Trump made massive inroads with Latino voters last November, shattering stubborn notions of this slice of the electorate as a monolithic bloc, both Democrats and Republicans have spent months trying to figure out the roots of the ex-president’s appeal and whether the GOP will be able to capitalize on it in the future.