Rio Grande Valley

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...

A newspaper says a drastic increase in the number of families seeking asylum along the Texas-Mexico border has caused immigration agents to transport many of the people to Arizona.

It may not be officially recognized as a competitive sport in Texas schools but water polo is on the rise across the state. A South Texas ISD is looking to pioneer the sport in the Rio Grande Valley.

Drag queens from across the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas, which sits on the U.S.-Mexico border, gathered Saturday in front of an existing border structure in Brownsville to host a No Border Wall Drag Protest, NBC News reported. They said their goal was to show people there is no border crisis and voice opposition to more barrier construction in...

The U.S. government is preparing to begin construction of more border walls and fencing in South Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, likely on federally owned land set aside as wildlife refuge property.

President Donald Trump’s claims over Christmas that he had awarded 115 miles of new border wall construction in Texas appear to confuse work that’s already funded and underway. Trump tweeted on Monday, “I am in the Oval Office & just gave out a 115 mile long contract for another large section of the Wall in Texas.” He reiterated on Tuesday...

The U.S. government has awarded a $167 million contract to build 8 miles of border wall in south Texas.