Rio Grande Valley

South Texas officials say they are worried about flooding during the upcoming hurricane season from breaches in the area’s levee system that were created during border wall construction. Hidalgo County Judge Richard Cortez told Border Report on Wednesday that there are at least four breaches in the river levee system protecting Hidalgo County’s low-lying region from being flooded by the...

The Biden administration for the first time has allowed journalists inside its main border detention facility for migrant children. A tour Tuesday revealed a severely overcrowded tent structure where more than 4,000 migrants were crammed into a space intended for 250 and the youngest ones are kept in a large playpen with mats on the floor for sleeping. With thousands...

Beth Van Duyne (R-TX, District 24) is leading a delegation of GOP congressional leaders Tuesday to survey the continuing migrant crisis on the Texas-Mexico border.

Texas Rio Grande Valley coach Lew Hill died Sunday, a day after coaching what was his final game, the university said.

President Donald Trump is taking no responsibility for his part in fomenting a violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol last week, despite his comments encouraging supporters to march on the Capitol and praise for them while they were still carrying out the assault.

After days out of sight following the Capitol siege, President Donald Trump travels to Texas to trumpet one of the pillars of his presidency: his campaign against illegal immigration.

As the election draws closer – NBC LX is taking a look at issues that matter to Texans. NBC 5’s Kristi Nelson talked to LX’s Fernando Hurtado about their trip to the Rio Grande Valley where they found communities divided.

While researching U.S. Civil War history in South Texas, Roseann Bacha-Garza came across the two unique families of the Jacksons and the Webbers living along the Rio Grande. White men headed both families. Both of their wives were Black, emancipated slaves.

In July alone, Hidalgo County reported more than 600 deaths due to the coronavirus– more than the Houston area, which is five times larger.

Five years ago, Dallas’ Jack Lowe Sr. Elementary was struggling. The school was one of 34 DISD campuses on the state’ failing list, this year it’s been recognized a U.S. Department of Education’s National Blue Ribbon School award.

The story of Francisco Erwin Galicia, a Dallas-born 18-year-old who was in Border Patrol and ICE custody for a month, made national headlines. His brother was deported. Like the Galicias family, thousands of other families living in the Rio Grande Valley are also mixed-status. Obed Manuel from The Dallas Morning News joins us.

Government investigators have identified poor conditions in another sector of the southern border, publishing graphic photos showing extreme overcrowding in Rio Grande Valley migrant facilities and finding that children there did not have access to showers and had to sleep on concrete floors. Investigators for the Department of Homeland Security who visited border stations in the El Paso, Texas, sector...

Authorities in South Texas say U.S. Border Patrol agents have discovered the bodies of four people, including three children, who appeared to have died from heat exposure after crossing the Rio Grande

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he’s sending another 1,000 Texas National Guard troops to the Texas-Mexico border while blasting Congress as a “group of reprobates” over the “escalating humanitarian crisis.”

The U.S. government says it won’t build President Donald Trump’s border wall on the site of a historic cemetery that might have required the exhumation of graves.

The U.S. government says it won’t build President Donald Trump’s border wall on the site of a historic cemetery that might have required the exhumation of graves.

Sixteen asylum seekers who have exhibited flu-like symptoms after being flown to San Diego from South Texas are being quarantined.

U.S. Border Patrol agents found a 3-year-old migrant alone in a cornfield at the border between Mexico and Texas on Tuesday morning, according to Customs and Border Protection officials. The boy, who was in distress and crying when agents found him in the Rio Grande Valley near Brownsville, Texas, was identified only by a phone number and his name written...

The Trump administration wants to open two new tent facilities to temporarily detain up to 1,000 parents and children near the southern border, as advocates sharply criticize the conditions inside the tents already used to hold migrants. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a notice to potential contractors that it wants to house 500 people in each camp in...

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has authorized the Army Corps of Engineers to begin planning and building 57 miles of 18-foot-high fencing in Yuma, Arizona, and El Paso, Texas, along the U.S. border with Mexico. The Pentagon says it will divert up to $1 billion to support the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection. The funding would...