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The city of Brownsville signed a disaster declaration after nearly 15,000 migrants crossed through the area, with many of them screened and released from federal custody and into the city.

Thirteen migrants have been taken into custody after a human smuggling boat was found by US Border Patrol agents.

Republican lawmakers in Texas are proposing legislation that would make it a state felony to cross the border from Mexico illegally and create a new border police force that could deputize private citizens, the latest in the state’s continued push to test the limits of the federal government’s authority over immigration.

Up to 5,000 migrants per day may be bused from El Paso to Dallas, Houston and other cities with major airports so that they can be transported to other points across the U.S.

The man was in custody at the Ysleta Border Patrol Station in El Paso on Tuesday when he was shot, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement.

Three people arrested at an airport in the Rio Grande Valley face human smuggling charges, Homeland Security says they were going to transport migrants into the U.S. by air.

A new surge of migrants, primarily from Venezuela, is overwhelming the Border Patrol and shelters in El Paso, Texas, where nearly 1,000 have been released near bus stations over the past week in hope that they will find their own way to their next destinations in the U.S. 

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has deactivated the agency’s Twitter account for the West Texas region after it retweeted posts criticizing President Joe Biden’s border policies.

The Border Patrol says one of its agents rescued an infant and a toddler who were left alone in southwestern Arizona’s Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.

Authorities took 113 Haitian migrants into custody after they jumped off a vessel making landfall near Key Largo Saturday. 200 stayed on board.

Border Patrol agents on horseback engaged in “unnecessary use of force” against non-threatening Haitian immigrants but didn’t whip any with their reins, according to a federal investigation of chaotic scenes along the Texas-Mexico border last fall.

The Border Patrol paroled more than 207,000 migrants who crossed from Mexico from August through May.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott discusses the state’s ongoing response to secure the border.

NBC 5’s Lili Zheng explains Title 42 and the concerns of whether its ending could open the floodgates to people trying to enter the U.S. at the southern border.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says an agent in Texas has been arrested and charged with assaulting and mistreating a juvenile in custody.

Deputies found about 100 migrants in the back of a semitrailer that had broken down on a South Texas highway on Friday, but many of them fled, authorities said.

The public health rule known as Title 42 was used during the pandemic to block more than 1.7 million attempts to enter the U.S.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he’s directing the Texas DPS to immediately suspend mandatory checks of all commercial vehicles crossing the Texas-Mexico border at Nuevo León upon an agreement with the governor of that state to enhance security on the southern side of the border that will curtail trafficking. Abbott said the DPS will continue mandatory inspections of all commercial...

One of the busiest trade ports on the U.S.-Mexico border remained closed Tuesday as frustration and traffic snarls mounted over new orders by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott requiring extra inspections of commercial trucks as part of the Republican’s sprawling border security operation.

Governor Greg Abbott revealed his new strategy on Wednesday to keep people from crossing into Texas illegally. Searches of some trucks, cars and SUVs are underway at border checkpoints. NBC 5’s Maria Guerrero looks at the ripple effect the plan could have across the state.