Texas has claimed more islands along its southern border with Mexico as part of the state in an effort to combat drug cartel ...

AUSTIN - State officials are calling on the Trump administration to help secure a set of newly identified islands on the ...

Even though unauthorized crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border have dramatically plummeted from an all-time high in December ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, M.D. sent a request to the Trump Administration asking the U.S.

EL PASO, Texas – After four years and more than ... risk that local smugglers would go to prison if caught. “The border is a problem,” said a former Venezuelan soldier named Angel while ...

"want to have the border completely secure," Sean McGoffin, chief patrol agent of the Border Patrol's Tucson Sector, said.

Officials in Texas’s biggest border city are careful to say that ... Geoffrey Alpert of the University of South Carolina. “The problem is, in the wild wild west, a horse couldn’t really ...

AUSTIN, Texas – The Texas Department of Public Safety ... a state initiative to stop drug smuggling and unauthorized border crossings. Tracking dogs, specifically, play a major role at the ...

In the vast, misunderstood region that straddles, in Texas, 1,254 miles from ... “I don’t think even people from the border realize how the ‘border problem’ impacts our way of life ...

A former border official was sentenced to federal prison for helping a Mexican cartel smuggle unauthorized people and drugs into the United States, federal officials said. Photo by Greg Bulla via ...