Texas-Mexico Border

An apparently long-running “extermination site” has been found outside Mexico’s northern border city of Nuevo Laredo, officials said Wednesday night.

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas traveled to Del Rio, Texas on Monday to receive an operational briefing on steps being taken to address the situation in the sector. Secretary Mayorkas will also meet with state and local partners and hold media availability.

Images show Haitians crossing the Rio Grande in huge groups and assembling under a bridge in Del Rio, a city of 35,000 people. NBC 5’s Maria Guerrero reports estimates are as high as 8,000 to 12,000.

Thousands of Haitian migrants have assembled under and around a bridge in a small Texas border town, presenting the Biden administration with a fresh and immediate challenge as it tries to manage large numbers of asylum-seekers who have been reaching U.S. soil.

Migrants, mostly Haitians but also some Cubans, Venezuelans and Nicaraguans, are crossing the Rio Grande back into Mexico to stock up on essentials they say they are not receiving on the American side of the border.

Many of the migrants at the Del Rio border are from Haiti. Despite the conditions they face — we’re told that for many Haitians — it is all worth the risk. NBC 5’s Meredith Yeomans reports.

Thousands of migrants, mostly people from Haiti fleeing instability in their country following an assassination and a devastating earthquake, are gathered under an international bridge in Del Rio seeking refuge in the United States.

Thousands of migrants, mostly from Haiti, are gathered under an international bridge in Del Rio seeking refuge in the United States.

Thousands of migrants, mostly from Haiti, have gathered under an international bridge in Del Rio. They’re seeking refuge in the United States after their leader’s assassination and a devastating earthquake in their country.

A federal appellate court refused late Thursday to delay implementation of a judge’s order reinstating a Trump administration policy forcing thousands to wait in Mexico while seeking asylum in the U.S.

A federal judge has ordered Texas to not allow state troopers to stop vehicles carrying migrants on the grounds that they may spread COVID-19.

The Biden administration sued Texas on Friday 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.

A new order by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott that allows state troopers to stop and turnaround vehicles carrying migrants on the basis that they could increase the spread of COVID-19 drew swift backlash and a threat of a lawsuit from the Justice Department on Thursday.

Photo ops with the troops. Political points on an issue sure to loom large in 2024 presidential debates. Another chance to tout a tough-on-illegal immigration stance that comes rarely for a governor whose state is closer to Canada than Mexico.

Texas is beginning to arrest migrants on trespassing charges along the U.S.-Mexico border as part of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s actions that he says are needed to slow the number of border crossings, jailing at least 10 people so far with more on the way, authorities said Thursday. The arrests put in motion plans that Abbott first announced in...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) hosted a briefing on border security Saturday afternoon with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Agreements released Monday show Iowa is donating the use of state troopers and their equipment at “no cost to Texas” to fight crime along the U.S. border with Mexico.

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.