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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott plans to take nearly two dozen Republican Texas state representatives on Thursday to a controversial park in Eagle Pass that the state has blocked from federal officials in the name of border security.

Lawmakers on the House Natural Resources Committee traveled to Arizona for a field hearing on the environmental impacts of the border crisis.

A ringing phone led to the apprehension of an Arizona man accused of smuggling illegal immigrants for profit. He was arrested near the U.S.-Mexico border.

Two men are in federal custody after at least one of them drove an SUV carrying unauthorized migrants without stopping at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint on Interstate 25 near Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Without much fanfare last week, Mexico's Institute of Migration, INM, set up a camp in the mountains about 65 east of the San Diego-Tijuana region, where members of Mexico's National Guard will be housed.

An estimated 300 people gathered at Larsen Field, a city park less than a mile from the U.S.-Mexico border, for a "Take Our Border Back' rally Saturday morning.

Greg Abbott and 14 fellow Republican governors are scheduled to come to the border on Sunday to get a briefing on Texas' border security initiative and address the Biden administration's border policies.

CALEXICO — A man and a woman are facing federal felony charges for allegedly trying to smuggle two sedated foreign children into the U.S. this week through the Calexico West

The general pointed to one case where a plane, loaded with 200 kilos of cocaine was stopped, and five passengers were detained, but set free by a judge in a matter of days.

Authorities said a targeted Immigrations and Customs Enforcement operation detained 171 unlawful immigrants with serious convictions or pending charges.