DHS might spare historic chapel from fast-tracked border wall, Cuellar says

Historic Rio Grande Valley church saved from being cut off behind border wall

By Berenice Garcia, The Texas Tribune July 9, 2026 MISSION — A historic chapel that served as the basis for the city’s name will no longer lie behind a border wall as community leaders and church officials initially feared. The future of La Lomita Chapel, which sits near the Rio Grande, came into question amid plans of border wall construction under President Donald Trump’s first term. At the time, the federal government planned to seize the cha…

Historic Texas chapel won't be cut off behind border wall

The wall would have blocked parishioners from reaching La Lomita chapel. A state representative has put a stop to those plans.

DHS might spare historic chapel from fast-tracked border wall, Cuellar says

A South Texas congressman visited two sites where new border wall is slated to be built in the Rio Grande Valley on Wednesday and had good news for opponents at one, and not so good news at the other.