Port Lavaca was once easy to overlook. Though only two and a half hours by car from Houston, the quaint, historic town deep in the Texas Coastal Bend seemed to belong to an earlier era. Diane Wilson ...

President Donald Trump's territorial assertions have sparked a round of rethinking by mapmakers and teachers, snark on social ...

Hours after he was inaugurated for a second term on Monday, President Donald Trump signed executive orders declaring a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border and reshaped policy to target anyone ...

The Republican governor blamed the just-ended presidency of Democrat Joe Biden for the state having to step up to secure its border with Mexico.

A man was sentenced to over four years in prison after being convicted of smuggling over 2,500 illegal immigrants into the United States.

Hours after the Pentagon announced that it would send 1,500 active duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico, reports surfaced that the number was actually 10,000.

The Pentagon said Wednesday it has begun deploying 1,500 active duty troops to help secure the southern border, putting in motion plans President Donald Trump laid out in executive orders shortly ...

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Acting Secretary of Defense Robert Salesses said the deployment of additional active duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico border “is just the beginning” — even as border crossings remain at their lowest ...

President Donald Trump’s promise to deport “millions and millions” of immigrants will hinge on securing money for detention centers.

During their three-week journey north from Honduras, the Carranza family were kidnapped twice. And then once they made it to ...

The suits include personal testimonies from attorneys general who are U.S. citizens by birthright, and names pregnant women who are afraid their children won’t ...