Enforcing immigration law at the border is the federal government’s role. But in Texas, that job has increasingly been taken ...

TX, filed a new bill to bolster U.S. energy production, led by the Texas oil and natural gas industry. Cruz on Thursday filed ...

Temperatures reached 100 degrees Fahrenheit while migrants screamed and banged the walls of the trailer for help or tried to ...

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A drug interception this week at the Brownsville and Matamoros International Bridge resulted in officers finding $158,145 ...

Texas' senior U.S. senator says he expects Trump to move swiftly on border matters once he resumes office next week.

Several Texas lawmakers have asked President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary to State to help urge Mexico to pay ...

US authorities closed on Thursday a clandestine tunnel underneath the Rio Bravo River, which connects the Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez with El Paso, Texas, and was allegedly used for drug and human ...

Deni Seymour has spent decades researching first contact between Native Americans and European settlers. Then she found a 500-year-old cannon.

A tunnel that was discovered along the U.S.-Mexico border in the Lower Valley has been sealed on the Mexican side, according to Customs and Border Protection.