Prosecutors charged 11 people after seven migrants, including a 14-year-old, died inside a rail cargo container traveling through Texas. Each defendant faces up to life in prison if convicted.
Law officers rescued 39 suspected undocumented migrants from a locked trailer that caught fire Thursday during a pursuit in South Texas.
A coalition of U.S. and Mexican stakeholders is urging Presidents Joe Biden and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to address migrant issues impacting cross-border trade.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has reopened the international border crossings at Eagle Pass and El Paso, Texas, according to the freight railroads affected by the five-day closure.
Union Pacific wants customers to lobby Congress to get U.S. Customs and Border Protection to say when suspended freight rail operations in El Paso and Eagle Pass, Texas, will resume.
U.S. border officials on Monday suspended freight rail operations in El Paso and Eagle Pass, Texas, in response to a surge in migrants in the region.
Cargo truck drivers at border crossings in South Texas again are seeing long delays as migrants and additional truck inspections have slowed traffic.
Federal officials have closed a border bridge in Eagle Pass, Texas, to handle a surge of migrants arriving in the area.
Trucks delivering products from Mexico continue to face hourslong waits at Texas ports of entry due to state-run inspections.
A former Texas Border Patrol agent pleaded guilty to hiring undocumented immigrants as drivers for Gonmor Transportation.
Texas-run truck inspections at the Mexican border are causing hourslong waits for cargo truckers.
Mexican railway operator Ferromex has halted key northbound freight trains due to migrants hopping aboard and being injured or killed.
Cargo operations at a Texas border port have been temporarily suspended due an influx of migrants from Mexico.
Cargo operations at a Texas border port were temporarily delayed Tuesday by an influx of migrants.
Authorities arrested four Mexican nationals in connection with the deaths of 53 migrants found abandoned last year in a locked tractor-trailer.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is launching new state-run checkpoints to inspect trucks for human-trafficking operations.
Authorities said the people inside the truck appeared to be undocumented migrants in a presumed human smuggling attempt.
Rene Garcia was arrested in May 2021 while attempting to drive a truck hiding 51 migrants through a Border Patrol checkpoint in Falfurrias, Texas.
The Port of Del Rio has been closed since Friday night, with both commercial and passenger traffic being diverted 57 miles east to the Eagle Pass port of entry.
The United States is sending an additional deployment of 1,100 active-duty troops and 1,000 Texas National Guard soldiers to the U.S.-Mexico border, Pentagon officials announced July 17. The new active-duty troops will arrive in Texas “in the next several weeks” and will provide “aerial surveillance, operational, logistical and administrative support” to U.S. Customs and Border […]
