{"id":391757,"date":"2026-07-30T09:47:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/391757\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T09:47:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:47:19","slug":"texas-candidates-walk-immigration-tightrope-in-redrawn-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/391757\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Candidates Walk Immigration Tightrope in Redrawn Districts"},"content":{"rendered":"

A roaring conjunto band welcomed Rep. Henry Cuellar and about 150 other business and political leaders at a community center in Mission, Texas, on a sweltering Wednesday this month.<\/p>\n

The luncheon was designed to promote area businesses, and serve as a thank-you to federal lawmakers like Cuellar who had shepherded taxpayer dollars<\/a> into the booming border town.<\/p>\n

As the event began, the Rev. Roy Snipes, a prominent local pastor known as \u201cthe cowboy priest,\u201d took the stage to bless the proceedings. Descending the stairs, Snipes spotted Cuellar at a nearby table, uncapped his vial of holy water from the nearby …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A roaring conjunto band welcomed Rep. Henry Cuellar and about 150 other business and political leaders at a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2668,5353,16609,137990,111642,2830,60429,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-391757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-border-security","tag-campaign-finance","tag-deportation","tag-exempt-organizations","tag-federal-agency-budget","tag-redistricting","tag-state-tax","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}