Texas Border

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing federal officials after a rare lizard that lives on some of the state’s biggest oil and gas fields was declared endangered.

The Texas-Mexico border and who is crossing it was part of discussions at the Texas Senate Committee hearing on border security Thursday. Concerns were raised over the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua or TdA coming into the United States.

A Venezuelan gang was a topic of discussion during a Senate committee meeting on border security. NBC ‘s Vince Sims tells us more about the gang known to be in the state and even in North Texas.

Several people have been charged in Guatemala after 53 migrants were found dead in San Antonio, Texas, in 2022. NBC 5’s Alanna Quillen has the details. 

Texas is widening investigations into aid organizations along the U.S.-Mexico border over claims that nonprofits are helping migrants illegally enter the country.

Three years after Gov. Greg Abbott announced Texas would take the extraordinary step of building a state-funded wall along the Mexico border, he has 34 miles of steel bollards to show for it.

A judge has blasted efforts by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to shutter one of the oldest and largest migrant shelters on the U.S.-Mexico border in a scathing ruling.

Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said a total of 26 migrants were found at a house in South Bexar County. Of those, 11 were taken to a hospital with heat-related injuries, Salazar said.

At least two Texas border mayors are headed to Washington on Tuesday when President Joe Biden is expected to announce an executive order that will mark his latest and most aggressive plan to curtail the number of migrants allowed to seek asylum in the U.S.

Mexico goes to the polls to choose between two women presidential candidates.

Mexico will choose its next president on Sunday and there is every indication the country will elect its first woman leader.

The future of a barrier of giant buoys that Texas Gov. Greg Abbot placed in the Rio Grande last year to deter migrant traffic may turn on whether a rocky, shallow stretch of the border river can be considered “navigable” and whether immigration sometimes constitutes a hostile invasion.

SB4, Texas’ controversial immigration-enforcement bill, is back in a federal appeals court on Wednesday.

NBC 5’s Alanna Quillen tells us about the proceedings surrounding the controversial immigration law that would allow state police to arrest those suspected of entering the U.S. illegally.

Mayor Eric Adams had planned Sunday to meet with U.S. immigration leaders.

The back-and-forth over Texas Senate Bill 4 is just the latest in a series of border security disputes between the state and the federal government. This week’s episode of Texas Wants to Know digs into who’s responsible for what when it comes to the border.

Texas faced skeptical questioning at an appeals court hearing Wednesday as the state pushed to enforce a strict new immigration law that would allow it to arrest and deport people who enter the U.S. illegally.

Texas’ plans to arrest migrants suspected of entering the U.S. illegally were again put on hold Wednesday. NBC 5’s Ben Russell has the details.

A federal appeals court has again prevented Texas from arresting and deporting migrants accused of entering the U.S. illegally, hours after the the law briefly took effect

The Supreme Court of the United States says it’ll indefinitely extend the state’s immigration law SB4, which would have allowed local police to arrest migrants.