Border Patrol and Rio Grande Valley residents respond to policy changes under the Trump administration amid ongoing ...

Gov. Greg Abbott is asking the federal government for more than $11 billion in reimbursements to Texas for the costs of border security operations and ...

The speech underscored President Trump's continued focus on immigration, which he called the nation's "number one issue." ...

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As federal agencies gear up to resume construction, Trump emphasized that immigration remains the nation's "top priority.

Texas is helping with the border wall effort in other ways. In October, the Texas General Land Office purchased a 1400-acre property in the Rio Grande Valley to offer to the Trump administration ...

Abbott said delays were due to obtaining privately owned and protected federal land in the Rio Grande Valley and Laredo, Texas. “More border wall is going up next month,” Abbott wrote in an X ...

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"I myself sold some property to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers," he said in reference to the construction of the border wall ... Jay Pena, an attorney Rio Grande City in Starr County, said ...

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The center argued that proposed border wall construction threatened to drive through the center and destroy butterfly habitats. Five years later, the lawsuit is still ongoing in federal court.