Four years after Gov. Greg Abbott said Texas would be the first state to build its own border wall, lawmakers quietly stopped ...

The Department of Defense is expanding a militarized zone along the southern U.S. border. Troops are authorized to detain ...

The state of Texas may be getting one step closer to being reimbursed by Congress for the billions of dollars it spent to secure the border during the Biden administration.

Culture. The Texas Border Is the New Frontier of Film. After years of having their stories told by outsiders, locals are fighting back with their own cameras and building much-needed infrastructure.

With Texas stopping new funding for Gov. Greg Abbott's border wall plan, President Donald Trump is telling the Senate to ...

Jaeson Jones is trained as a cop—not a journalist. Yet the 51-year-old holds a lucrative correspondent contract at one of the country’s most prominent MAGA-aligned television networks.

PRESIDIO, Texas — Apart from the thrum of traffic, it's a quiet afternoon in this town of roughly 6,000 along the southwest border where the Trump administration has deployed some 10,000 active ...

Texas appears to have quietly axed its plans to construct its own border wall between itself and Mexico, which could mark the end of an embarrassing boondoggle designed to bolster one of Trump’s ...

The State of Texas is pausing new border wall construction contracts as it completes already started segments, and hopes for ...

Texas authorities have placed over 100 miles of razor wire along the southern border. Does razor wire really keep migrants from entering the country illegally, and is it worth the cost?

Texas broke ground on 1.5 miles of added border wall at a 1,402-acre ranch in Starr County that it acquired in October for $4M.

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