An idled Border Patrol bus sat empty this week, on standby for any migrants surrendering near the southern tip of Texas. Once ...

County residents showed support for immigrants at Routes 9 and 47 on a chilly Wednesday afternoon. Some drivers offered ...

director of the South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute and chief of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine’s Division of Human Genetics. Thirty percent are diabetic and ...

A man said he got into human smuggling because he was struggling to find a job, according to an arrest affidavit.

In 2021, a Border Patrol agent was unhurt when about 20 shots were fired across the Rio Grande near the Jonathan W ... Patrol agents if they didn't stop messing with "polleros," or human smugglers ...

Boundaries and Borderlands” lecture Feb. 5, marking the third installment this year in the department’s public lecture series ...

A man and his girlfriend were arrested in relation to a human smuggling attempt reported ... of multiple people illegally crossing the Rio Grande. With air support, agents learned that the people ...

near Rio Grande City. “Obviously it puts a dent in the drug trade and the human trafficking trade, and so that's where we get some pushback from these cartel-related organizations," said Chris ...

Chris Olivarez said on X. The Rio Grande Valley is a place notorious for cartel activity and human smuggling. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott deployed 400 additional Texas National Guard troops to the area.

(NewsNation) — The region of the Rio Grande Valley in Texas where suspected members of Mexican drug cartels exchanged gunfire with U.S. border officials Monday has been targeted by organized criminal ...

Very little rain falls in the area, but underground springs, small streams and the Rio Grande River provide precious water. The magnificent landscape is threatened by an ever-increasing human ...