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Migrants who arrived in Philadelphia from Texas on Wednesday were greeted by city agencies and nonprofits ready to assist with services

Philadelphia officials are preparing for the potential arrival of 52 migrants on a bus from Del Rio, Texas, but the exact timing of the trip is unclear.

Authorities say one person was detained after someone opened fire on three Angeles National Forest contract workers in mountains near Los Angeles. A sheriff's official says nobody was struck by gunfire in the shooting. (Sept. 29)

The two companies awarded contracts on Thursday will erect border barriers in Del Rio and the Rio Grande Valley

The two companies awarded contracts on Thursday will erect border barriers in Del Rio and the Rio Grande Valley.

For the second consecutive month, apprehensions of migrants along the Rio Grande Valley continued to decline, signaling a possible shift in migration patterns. But unlike prior years, the Rio Grande Valley is no longer the place where most people are trying to cross the border. Data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows that as of June, the Rio Grande Valley sector was no longer the busiest — a break in a trend observed for years. It remained the busiest for years until 2013, when most of the migrants began entering the U.S. through the Rio Grande Valley. Of the 203,598 encounters recorded along the southwest border this year, 22 percent of them were people who had already attempted to enter the U.S. but were turned back to Mexico.

Amistad Reservoir continued to rise steadily throughout the past month, according to Barry S. Goldsmith, NWS warning coordination meteorologist.

Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History says a prehistoric human skeleton found recently in a flooded cave system along the country’s Caribbean coast was actually discovered and registered by the institute in 2019 and will not be threatened by a nearby tourist train project.

A cave-diving archaeologist on Mexico’s Caribbean coast says another prehistoric human skeleton has been found in a cave system that was flooded as seas rose 8,000 years ago

It's been nearly a year since tens of thousands of Haitian migrants converged on Del Rio, Texas. Some of those migrants are still looking for safety — and accountability for how they were treated.

It's been nearly a year since tens of thousands of Haitian migrants converged on Del Rio, Texas. Some of those migrants are still looking for safety — and accountability for how they were treated.

EAGLE PASS (AP) — A Texas pecan farm nearly the size of Disneyland has become entangled in a turf war between the Biden administration and Republican Gov.[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]

Officials on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border searched for more victims Saturday after at least nine migrants died while trying to cross the rain-swollen Rio Grande river, a dangerous border-cross[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]

The bodies of eight people were recovered from the Rio Grande after dozens of migrants were swept downriver near Eagle Pass, Texas, in what appeared to be the deadliest mass-drowning incident along the border in years, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said Friday.

A Texas pecan farm nearly the size of Disneyland has become entangled in a turf war between the Biden administration and Republican Gov. Greg Abbott over immigration enforcement on the southern border. Hugo and Magali Urbina, who bought Heavenly Farms in April 2021, at first welcomed the state footing the bill for a new chain-link fence through their property earlier this year as part of Abbott’s multibillion-dollar crackdown on border crossings along the Rio Grande. The lock was put there, the couple says, by Texas authorities who have spent months arresting thousands of migrants on trespassing charges on private land.

A 5-year-old girl has drowned while attempting to cross the Rio Grande to enter Texas.

Mexico’s ambitious Maya Train project along the country’s Caribbean coast it is threatening the indigenous Maya people it was named for and dividing communities it was meant to help.

The web of state highway troopers that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has woven at the border has ensnared local drivers pulled over by officers searching for smugglers and people who’ve slipped across the border.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Migrants were stopped fewer times at the U.S.[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin determined it would hurt troop readiness.

The Supreme Court has certified its month-old ruling allowing the Biden administration to end a cornerstone Trump-era border policy to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court.

A Lone Star State native living in Chicago insists that only small pastry squares filled with cooked fruit deserve that name. A Lone Star native living in Chicago insists that only small pastry squares filled with cooked fruit deserve that name.

A Jan. 6 fugitive was staying on a ranch that documents suggest belongs to an official who helped write the county’s “invasion” declaration.

The Brownsville Public Utilities Board is on the verge of implementing Stage 2 of the city’s Drought Contingency Plan due to critically low water levels in Amistad and Falcon international reservoirs, which supply water to the Rio Grande Valley.

The Brownsville Public Utilities Board is on the verge of implementing Stage 2 of the city’s Drought Contingency Plan due to critically low water levels in Amistad and Falcon international reservoirs, which supply water to the Rio Grande Valley.

Border Patrol agents on horseback who confronted non-threatening Haitian migrants in Del Rio in 2021 used "unnecessary" force, according to a report released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Border Patrol agents on horseback engaged in “unnecessary use of force” against non-threatening Haitian immigrants but didn’t whip any with their reins, according to a federal investigation of chaotic scenes along the Texas-Mexico border last fall.

Investigators found Haitian migrants were seeking to deliver food and supplies to their families and not threatening U.S border agents.

Del Rio called the Jan. 6 attack "a dust-up at the Capitol," which he later apologized for.

Washington Commanders defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio has been fined $100,000 by the team for his comments about protests in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd and the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Spring-fed San Felipe Creek anchors the community along the Rio Grande

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Stacks of razor-sharp concertina wire, or c-wire, sat coiled up on a flatbed trailer parked at the entrance of federal property in Mission on Friday — a representation of the governor’s border security partnership with local landowners.

Texas officials say a National Guard member who drowned on the U.S.-Mexico border while on duty wasn't wearing a flotation device and had not been issued one.

When Governor Greg Abbott took immigration policy into his own hands, sending ten thousand troops to the border, not everyone went along.

Alexander and United took home the team title at the District 30-6A tennis tournament...

LBJ and Alexander will play in the Regional Semifinals on Friday night with the Bulldogs...

Three armed suspects involved in a southeast Houston home invasion were caught on camera and police are hoping someone can help identify them.

Gov. Greg Abbott’s controversial border mission was subject to a slew of bad news this week, including a major shakeup at the Texas Military Department, whose top leader Abbott replaced.

Scores and schedules for the Calallen Wildcat Classic, Mira's Sports and More Classic and Best of the Bay baseball tournament.

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No law requires that people fleeing political violence and natural disaster should be met by the militarized cordon sanitaire in South Texas.

In this week’s episode, Matthew speaks with Jolie and Alexa about a potentially influential court case in Gov. Greg Abbott’s effort to arrest migrants at the border and a high rejection rate among applicants seeking to vote by mail.

Towering above Liberia's ramshackle capital Monrovia stands a hotel that once symbolised an African dream yet today lies in ruins, a legacy of brutal conflict.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Last month was the hottest December in Texas since at least 1889, state Climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon said.Gammon found that temperatures from Dallas through Abilene [San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s office said Tuesday that the governor sent a letter on saying he plans to sue the federal government over the vaccine mandate for the Texas National Guard.

After the ‘Del Rio News-Herald’ shuttered last year, Frank Lopez Jr., who broadcasts as “US Border Patriot,” found a national audience.

San Antonio residents Leianne Maugeri and Devin Del Rio are set to walk down the aisle...

The Nicaraguan government has dropped visa requirements for Cuban citizens, a move that may spark an increase in Cubans travelling there in a bid to reach the United States.

Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas has identified the pilot killed in the mishap involving two T-38 Talons Friday as a student aviator.

After talking with border residents and immigrants, it's clear the only crisis at the border is how we're putting immigrants in danger.

Images of mounted agents dispersing migrants along the Rio Grande prompted nationwide outrage in September.

Congressional investigators say two Border Patrol agents were fired from among 60 found to have committed misconduct for participating in a private Facebook group that mocked migrants and lawmakers.

U.S. authorities say illegal border crossings from Mexico fell in September for only the second time in 17 months, but the federal fiscal year ended with the highest count ever.

The Del Rio-raised Border Patrol Chief chatted with Texas Monthly about the situation in his hometown and immigration enforcement across the state.

Chris Magnus, the Tucson police chief, appears before the Senate Finance Committee.

A senior U.S. official says the number of U.S.-bound Haitian migrants temporarily stuck in northern Colombia has risen to about 20,000

The frequency of flights has dropped from as many as seven daily to one per day this week.

Gov. Abbott will be in the border community of Mission to talk about what he calls the crisis in illegal immigration.

Republicans have accused Biden of releasing most of the migrants into the United States.

After witnessing fellow migrants swept away in a Central American river and a sexual assault by armed men, one man wants to put the traumatic journey in the past and find stability for his family in Ohio.

As the federal government was working to process and remove an estimated 15,000 migrants from under the international bridge in Del Rio, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials held an “on background” conference call with reporters covering the effort.

Faith-based groups are scrambling to keep up with fast-paced developments in the Haitian migrant crisis.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott promised to hire any Border Patrol agents who get in trouble for what President Biden called "outrageous" conduct toward Haitian immigrants trying to cross the border.

The South Carolina Republican senator, the top Republican negotiator on police reform, blamed the collapse of the talks on Democrats' "defunding the police" agenda.

The South Carolina Republican senator spoke with "Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan about the collapse of police reform negotiations in Congress.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a statement outlining plans to allow passenger and cargo traffic to resume. Earlier, a camp of 15,000 migrants, mostly Haitians, had gathered there.

The “amistad,” or friendship, that Del Rio, Texas, and Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, celebrate with a festival each year has been important in helping them deal with the challenges from a migrant camp that shut down the border bridge between the two communities for more than a week.

For the final leg of his journey from Chile to the United States, Haitian migrant Fabricio Jean followed detailed instructions sent to him via WhatsApp from his brother in New Jersey who had recently taken the route to the Texas border.

An Ohio man is among those who made their way to the Texas border city of Del Rio, where thousands of Haitian migrants set up camp near a border bridge, including many seeking asylum.

As U.S. authorities moved out the last of the more than 14,000 migrants who gathered beside a border bridge in Del Rio, thousands of other Haitians en route between the border and South America are coming to the realization that a window of time has closed

As he extends Trump-era policies, President Biden discovers that many voters are no longer willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.

As many as 15,000 migrants, who were mostly from Haiti, had been packed into a squalid tent city beneath a bridge.

Officials say all migrants have been cleared from the camp where they gathered in the Texas border city of Del Rio.

Federal and local officials say an encampment in a Texas border town where thousands of Haitian migrants gathered in recent days is now empty.

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Department of Homeland Security officials said they were making progress in reducing the number of migrants, mostly Haitian, camped under the international bridge in Del Rio.

U.S. officials say the Biden administration’s special envoy to Haiti has resigned, protesting large-scale expulsions of Haitian migrants to their homeland as it is wracked by civil strife and natural disaster.

A confluence of factors caused the sudden arrival of thousands of mostly Haitian migrants on the Texas border this month.

KPRC 2 Investigates spoke with several Haitian immigrants who remain at an encampment just across from Del Rio in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Acuna. Many there said they were aware of the US Government’s plans for mass expulsions of Haitian immigrants, but are still determined to stay in the US.

An informal camp of migrants is slowing growing along the banks of the Rio Grande.

Federal officials have halted traffic so they can process thousands of Haitian migrants seeking asylum. The closure has made it difficult for the Texas city’s binational employees and business owners to keep normal operations going.

U.S. Border Patrol agents tied to images showing aggressive tactics on Haitian immigrants have been placed on administrative duties pending an investigation.

Gov. Greg Abbott will hold a press conference to discuss the situation in Del Rio on Tuesday. The governor will be joined by Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw, Texas Military Department adjutant Gen. Tracy Norris, and National Border Patrol Council president Brandon Judd.

U.S. Border Patrol agents tied to images showing aggressive tactics on Haitian immigrants have been placed on administrative duties pending an investigation.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas warned would-be migrants that “your journey will not succeed” and promised to investigate the actions of mounted agents at the Rio Grande.

The Biden administration is relying on a contested Trump-era policy as it disperses thousands of Haitian migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border in and around the small South Texas city of Del Rio.

Agents moved 3,300 of the migrants as of Sunday. That left more than 12,000 people still waiting to be processed.

The U.S. is flying Haitians camped in a Texas border town back to their homeland and trying to block others from crossing the border from Mexico.

The situation in Del Rio spiraled this week as more than 15,000 migrants, many of them from Haiti, arrived at the border in recent days, settling in a makeshift camp as they waited for CBP agents to process their petitions to stay in the U.S.

With an estimated 12,000 migrants already crowded under the international bridge and thousands more expected, Del Rio’s mayor declared an emergency Friday and requested state assistance.

A US official says the Biden administration plans on the widescale expulsion of Haitian migrants in a small Texas border city on flights to Haiti starting Sunday.

Abbott’s announcements come as thousands of migrants — mostly from Haiti — have gathered under an international bridge in Del Rio.

Officials said immigration authorities weren’t interested in taking migrants who had no criminal conviction into federal custody. But without documentation, at least one newly released migrant soon found himself back in detention.

The state is expected to award the contract in mid-September to begin the construction of a Texas-Mexico border wall.

A border sheriff told lawmakers that some landowners who are afraid of migrants crossing their property have asked him, "When can I shoot?"

After more than three weeks in jail, a trespassing charge against the man was dropped because state troopers shouldn’t have arrested him under Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security push. He wound up in bureaucratic limbo for days as federal agencies passed the responsibility for resolving his immigration status.

The Texas governor has derided federal immigration policy as "catch and release." But unless federal authorities now take them into custody, the migrants Abbott ordered state troopers to arrest could soon be freed.

The Biden administration sued Texas to prevent state troopers from stopping vehicles carrying migrants on grounds that they may spread COVID-19, warning that the practice would exacerbate problems amid high levels of crossings on the state’s border with Mexico.