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Fifteen-hundred residents of an overwhelmingly Hispanic community in Far West Texas now have access to clean drinking water thanks to state and federal grants.

“First, we had California’s Prop 187 […] Then Arizona’s SB 1070. Now Florida is attacking our people with SB 1718. We cannot allow this cancer to continue,” Vega said. “It is not fair to those who do the hardest jobs – farm work, construction – or the people who put the food on our table.”

The huge investment that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has asked the state transportation agencies to fund for a new International Bridge Trade Corridor to connect international bridges in the Rio Grande Valley with border highways has been years in the planning, and comes as Valley politicians hold key positions in Austin.

A Mexican city councilwoman from the border town of Reynosa has been indicted on new federal drug charges in South Texas after previous federal charges were dropped against her relating to cocaine found in a vehicle she was driving at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint, Border Report has learned.

U.S. Rep. George Santos plans to visit the U.S.-Mexico border on Monday in El Paso.

A victim who escaped his captors helped Mexican officials arrest two bus drivers allegedly paid to deliver African and South American migrants to an organized criminal group in Sonora.

Mexican authorities are investigating the details behind an SUV containing the decapitated heads of seven people left parked outside a church in Chilpancingo.

As an intense heat wave grips the Rio Grande Valley, there is an effort to relocate or revamp a migrant camp for asylum seekers in Matamoros, Mexico, to help make them safer and more comfortable, a Catholic nun who works with migrants tells Border Report.

As an intense heat wave grips the Rio Grande Valley, there is an effort to relocate or revamp a migrant camp for asylum seekers in Matamoros, Mexico, to help make them safer and more comfortable, a Catholic nun who works with migrants tells Border Report.

An intense heat wave gripping the Rio Grande Valley is spurring an effort to help keep asylum-seekers safe and more comfortable by reestablishing and revamping a migrant camp in Matamoros, Mexico.