Texas-Mexico Border

Republican lawmakers in Texas are proposing legislation that would make it a state felony to cross the border from Mexico illegally and create a new border police force that could deputize private citizens, the latest in the state’s continued push to test the limits of the federal government’s authority over immigration.

Days after two people died and two people were injured during a cosmetic surgery road trip to Matamoros, Mexico, North Texans say the threat of violence won’t stop them from crossing the border for medical care.

As we learn more about the kidnappings and murders in Mexico, many North Texans say the threat of violence would not keep them from crossing the border for medical care.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) was expected to hold a round table discussion Tuesday afternoon followed by a press conference.

A Texas National Guard member shot and wounded a migrant during a struggle this month on the U.S.-Mexico border as the soldier tried to detain the person, according to records from the state military, which has not publicly disclosed the incident.

With El Paso shelters overrun by a surge in migrants and the city under a state of emergency, President Joe Biden announced Thursday his first visit to the U.S.-Mexico border since taking office nearly two years ago.

On Sunday President Joe Biden will make his first visit to the Texas-Mexico border since becoming president.

Ten guards and four inmates were killed early Sunday when gunmen attacked a state prison in Ciudad Juarez across the border from El Paso, Texas

NBC 5 spent two days in Eagle Pass, Texas, documenting the current surge of migrants crossing the Rio Grande, despite physical barriers and asylum restrictions that remain in effect.

We’re getting an up-close look following the Biden administration’s request for the Supreme Court to allow Title 42 to be lifted but delay that action until after Christmas. NBC 5’s Maria Guerrero is in Eagle Pass reports.

Gov. Greg Abbott is sending 400 members of the Texas National Guard to El Paso to help with border security pending the expected expiration of Title 42 on Wednesday.

Bob Ray Sanders discusses the impact of the shooting of Atatiana Jefferson and the trial of former Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean on the city, plus a look back at the biggest political headlines of 2022 and what’s ahead in 2023.

Up to 5,000 migrants per day may be bused from El Paso to Dallas, Houston and other cities with major airports so that they can be transported to other points across the U.S.

A migrant crisis at the border could guess worse as Title 42 expires. NBC 5’s Evan Anderson is live in the newsroom to tell us more.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized 119 pounds of cocaine at the Texas-Mexico border in Laredo.

Governor Greg Abbott is escalating security at the Texas border. He made that announcement in a letter sent to President Biden yesterday. That letter follows another one sent earlier in the week that called on the federal government to pay Texas back for money spent at the border.

A bus full of migrants seeking asylum that departed from Texas arrived in Philadelphia Wednesday morning.

The mayor of Philadelphia says he’s ready to greet 30 migrants Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says are on their way from the Texas border.

U.S. Border Patrol agents launched pepper balls at a group of migrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border along the Rio Grande in El Paso after the agency said one person threw a rock at one agent and another was assaulted with a flagpole.

New Mexico, Texas and Colorado have negotiated a proposed settlement that they say will end a yearslong battle over management of one of the longest rivers in North America, but the federal government and two irrigation districts that depend on the Rio Grande are objecting.