The troops, part of a unit called the Texas Tactical Border Force, will join those already deployed to the border through Texas' Operation Lone Star.
U.S. Border Patrol agents exchanged gunfire with suspected cartel members at the Texas-Mexico border on Monday afternoon.
Federal authorities Friday announced 30 arrests and more than 43 people charged in connection with an alleged drug cartel laundering scheme centered in Houston that saw cellphones purchased and sold to launder money to Mexico.
The feds say Nestor Flores Encarnacion, 58, illegally entered the U.S. four times to evade prosecution for raping an 8-year-old child in Mexico.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is sending helicopters and hundreds more soldiers from bases in Houston and Fort Worth to the U.S.-Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley.
The stakes are particularly high for Texas and other border states, where trade with Mexico is worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year.
A woman from Houston attempted to smuggle a mixture of narcotics through an international bridge in Laredo, according to an arrest affidavit.
An illegal immigrant wanted in Mexico for allegedly raping a child was repatriated back to his country after entering the U.S. four times illegally since 2002.
More than five years after construction began, the Dos Bocas refinery is still unfinished as Mexico faces a suddenly urgent need to get it going.
During their three-week journey north from Honduras, the Carranza family were kidnapped twice. And then once they made it to the Texas border in August 2019, and tried to claim asylum, they were
Google says it will take its cue from the U.S. government if it has to change the names of the Gulf of Mexico and Denali on its Maps service.
The series follows Mo Najjar, a Palestinian refugee in Houston seeking asylum and trying everything he can to become a U.S. citizen.