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EAGLE PASS — On a chilly January afternoon, a military drone hovers over Shelby Park as Texas National Guard members pull boats from the Rio Grande and slide them onto

A park on the Rio Grande is the new focus of a long battle over border enforcement that’s reached the U.S. Supreme Court.

A park on the Rio Grande is the new focus of a long battle over border enforcement that’s reached the U.S. Supreme Court.

The current standoff at the border is unique in American history, according to academics who study the U.S.-Mexico border and immigration.

Discrepancies over responsibility for their rescue underscore political disputes over responding to crisis at U.S. southwestern border

The drownings of three Mexican migrants in the Rio Grande has deepened a jurisdictional dispute between the U.S. federal and Texas state governments.

Sancha Cerros, 33, her daughter Yorlei Rubi, 10, and son Jonathan Agustín Briones de la Sancha, 8, died last Friday night near the Eagle Pass crossing in Texas, but two of their relatives survived.

Biden Administration gives Texas governor until Wednesday to remove guardsmen from Eagle Pass park

Federal officials say it could have been less likely were it not for the state’s new policies.