border security

NBC 5 Investigates has obtained state records showing the cost of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s plan to bus undocumented immigrants from the border to Washington D.C. has cost more than $1,400 per rider so far.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott held a border security briefing and a press conference to discuss Texas’ response to secure the border Monday in Eagle Pass. The governor was joined by Texas DPS Director Steve McCraw and Adjutant General of the Texas Military Department Maj. Gen. Thomas Suelzer.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announces an end to 100% commercial vehicle safety checks with the agreement of a security pact with the governor of the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott repealed his order mandating commercial vehicle inspections at all international crossings into Texas which jammed the US-Mexico border for days and caused fears of deep economic losses.

Here are some facts about conditions on the Texas-Mexico border and Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s response.

A second bus from Texas arrived in Washington, DC overnight and dropped off more than a dozen undocumented immigrants as part of Governor Abbott’s new border plan. It is a multi-part approach designed to get the attention of the White House.

With only a few belongings and ID bracelets, migrants from Colombia, Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua stepped off a bus near Capitol Hill Wednesday. The first bused from the Texas border to D.C. in a new move by Gov. Greg Abbott.

The first group of undocumented migrants who volunteered to take a charter from the Texas border to Washington D.C. on a bus provided by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott arrived in the nation’s capital Wednesday morning.

Texas has launched a second Operation Lone Star jail booking facility — this one in Jim Hogg County.

Britain has emerged from the Covid-19 pandemic to find itself faced with new economic crises that have left the country in “a precarious position,” experts say.

No migrants remain at a border camp under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas, where thousands of mostly Haitians amassed in recent days, the DHS secretary said Friday.

Border Patrol agents will no longer use horses in Del Rio, Texas, amid public outcry over photos showing agents on horseback charging at Haitian migrants.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill into law in Fort Worth on Friday that commits $2 billion for border security. That’s in addition to the $1 billion previously appropriated by lawmakers.

The Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas Military Department hosted the first weekly media briefing on Thursday to discuss the progress of Operation Lone Star.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) held a border security briefing Saturday at the state Capitol, where he was joined by 11 sheriffs from border communities.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) will hold a border security briefing Saturday at the state Capitol, where he will be joined by sheriffs from border communities.

Wyoming is looking at how it might send National Guard troops or other help to bolster security at the Mexico border, Gov. Mark Gordon said.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he’s going to build border barriers that will allow the state to arrest people crossing the border illegally and that he has plans to build a larger border wall.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) announced Thursday that Texas will build its own border wall and also begin to arrest people crossing the border illegally next week.

From Fort Worth Thursday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) announced a new criminal offense for the manufacture or distribution of fentanyl.