As President Trump’s border crackdown drives illegal crossings down to historic lows, smugglers are doing anything they can ...

AUSTIN - State officials are calling on the Trump administration to help secure a set of newly identified islands on the southern border.On Monday, the Texas Ge ...

Gov. Greg Abbott said Texas was able to close the Jim Hogg County facility because of Trump’s immigration policies. Records ...

They often surprise audience members who come with a negative preconception of border stories. In the vast, misunderstood region that straddles, in Texas, 1,254 miles from El Paso to the Gulf ...

AUSTIN, Texas – The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS ... a state initiative to stop drug smuggling and unauthorized ...

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The United States’ southern border with Mexico is 1,933 miles long, stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the tip of South Texas. Some 700 of those miles have fencing in place. That’s not ...

Senate Bill 4, the Texas law that makes illegally crossing the border a state crime, will continue to be challenged by two immigrant rights groups and El Paso County. A National Guard soldier sits ...

EL PASO, Texas – After four years and more than $11 billion spent battling the worst mass migration border crisis in US history, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star has repositioned ...

Severe storms dumped about half a year’s rainfall in two days, leading to flash floods across both sides of the border. By John Yoon Severe flooding swept South Texas and cities across the ...

Both proposals funnel $6.5 billion to border security, which would bring total state taxpayer spending on such efforts to nearly $18 billion since Texas launched Operation Lone Star in 2021.