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Elements of Mexico's National Guard and Marines have been stationed along the border next to the Pacific Ocean to prevent migrants from entering the United States.

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — A Texas man is going to prison for bribing a federal agent while trying to recover cash that had been confiscated at the border. Pedro Thiessen, 71, of Seminole, Texas, failed to declare more than $12,000 when he returned to the U.S. from Mexico in October 2022 at the […]

U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, on Tuesday relived being carjacked in Washington, D.C., the night before, and said he was grateful that he remained calm and that his family wasn't with him. He also said that the Texas border is a lot safer than the nation's capital.

Community members gathered on the banks of the Rio Grande on Monday evening to remember asylum-seekers who have drowned in the river trying to cross into the border town of Eagle Pass, Texas.

Hundreds of foreign nationals have crossed the Rio Grande into El Paso in the past 24 hours, and hundreds more remain on the riverbanks waiting to be processed.

Following the cancellation of a second big-name concert in Tijuana in less than two weeks, Mayor Montserrat Caballero hinted that the performers are partially to blame.

IPhones? Purses or wallets? Maybe a laptop, perhaps? Actually no. The item most commonly stolen in Texas is something much larger than that.

When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott met this week with Gov.-Elect Manolo Jiménez Salinas, of the Mexican State of Coahuila, they talked border security and nearshoring, but a Texas border lawmaker tells Border Report that the mandatory truck inspections in Eagle Pass, Texas, are what the leaders really need to sort out.

IPhones? Purses or wallets? Maybe a laptop, perhaps? Actually no. The item most commonly stolen in Texas is something much larger than that.

Drug cartels have become Mexico’s fifth largest employer, with more than 175,000 people on their payroll, recently published research in Science shows.