The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) confirmed that border agents were fired upon from the Mexican side of the border. On Monday, Texas DPS Lieutenant Olivarez confirmed that shots were fired from inside Mexico toward a group of Border Patrol agents on Fronton Island.
Mexican authorities found a camp site Tuesday on a border island where suspected cartel members shot at U.S. border patrol agents in Texas.
According to reports, there were no injuries in the incident near Fronton Island, an uninhabited island in Starr County, Texas.
The state has vowed to assist the president in his efforts to revamp immigration. But Texas' biggest cities and school districts are more reluctant to help.
The warning was issued because of "increasingly frequent gun battles" and the discovery of "improvised explosive devices (IEDs)."
Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday directed the Texas Department of Public Safety to deploy tactical strike teams to support the Trump administration’s border security and homeland
U.S. officials have put several Mexican border towns near Texas under the highest-level travel advisory amid gun battles, kidnappings and IEDs in the area.
Officials conducted exercises with Black Hawk and Chinook helicopters, and military trucks, highlighting tactical strength.
Governor Greg Abbott is deploying the new Texas Tactical Border Force to the Rio Grande Valley to coordinate with the U.S. Border Patrol under Trump’s administration to secure the border.
U.S. Border Patrol was involved in a shootout with cartel members in the Rio Grande Valley, the Texas Department of Public Safety says. The tense moments unfolded Monday in
House Republicans plan to introduce a bill that would officially designate several major Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs), legislation that would make President Donald
Trump's Justice Dept. may drop the U.S. challenge to SB 4, but other plaintiffs have vowed to push forward against Texas' immigration law.