Texas has spent $11 billion on border security. Is it working? | The ...
Apr 22, 2024 · Texas shares about 1,250 miles of border with Mexico and is home to five of the nine Border Patrol sectors along the southern border — the El Paso Sector also includes New Mexico’s 180 miles ...
Border - The Texas Tribune
Apr 11, 2025 · A pro-gun, anti-abortion border sheriff appealed to both parties. Then he was painted as soft on immigration. By Perla Trevizo, The Texas Tribune and ProPublica, Photos by Gerardo del Valle ...
Texas, feds locked in tense border standoff in Eagle Pass | The …
Jan 22, 2024 · One Texas lawsuit, filed against the federal government after Border Patrol agents began cutting through the state’s concertina wire to apprehend or give medical aid to migrants, is now before ...
Trump sweeps nearly all Texas border counties - The Texas Tribune
Nov 6, 2024 · The former president captured 55% of Latino voters in the state, according to exit polls. He also won 14 out of the 18 counties within 20 miles of the border, a number that doubled his 2020 ...
Texas’ border standoff ignites calls for secession | The Texas Tribune
Jan 30, 2024 · A Texas National Guard Humvee parked at the gates of Shelby Park, in Eagle Pass, on Jan. 16, 2024. Texas closed off Shelby Park, limiting access to federal agents to part of the Texas-Mexico ...
Texas’ border standoff with Border Patrol continues - The Texas …
Jan 24, 2024 · A Texas National Guard member walks past a line of buoys in Eagle Pass on Jan. 17, 2024. The U.S. Department of Justice, in a filing to the U.S. Supreme Court, stated that U.S. Border Patrol ...
Migrants line up at the border, awaiting the end of Title 42 | The ...
May 11, 2023 · Migrants line up on the U.S.-Mexico border prior to boarding a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol bus near El Paso on Thursday. Credit: REUTERS/Julio Cesar Chavez
Supreme Court says Texas can’t block feds from the border | The …
Jan 22, 2024 · Under the operation, Abbott has deployed state troopers across the 1,200 mile Texas-Mexico border; ordered state police to arrest migrants who are suspected of trespassing; spent $11 million to ...
Biden blocked from diverting border barrier funds - The Texas …
Mar 13, 2024 · In 2021, George P. Bush, then-commissioner of the Texas General Land Office, and Paxton sued the Biden administration after the president directed to pause construction of a border wall.
Texas border security efforts might get another $6 billion | The …
Feb 5, 2025 · Among the biggest state border security expenditures is the $2.3 billion allotted to the Texas Military Department, which oversees the National Guard and its thousands of members deployed to the ...