Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from the Texas Military Department

Texas Begins Removing Rio Grande Island Officials Say Is Used to Hide and Smuggle Migrants into U.S.

A couple of years ago, the Texas Military Department, under Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's Operation Lone Star, cleared another river island near the town of Fronton, commonly known as Fronton Island.

Latin Times

Texas Quietly Downsizes Border Security Spending

But outlays remain far above state funding prior to the Operation Lone Star era.

Texas Observer

Texas installs anti-climb barriers in El Paso days after taking down razor wire rows

Any chance of the razor wire removal meaning a softening in the state's anti-immigration rhetoric was short-lived as Governor Abbott anticipated new barriers

Latin Times

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Texas investigating Guard member after border shooting incident

News reports cite a Border Patrol bulletin that said an Indiana Guard member wounded a migrant who was stabbing another migrant at the border in El Paso.

The Texas Tribune

Abbott’s Border Military Base Could Cost Texans $500 Million

Last Friday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott held a press conference in Eagle Pass, the border town he has turned into a militarized staging ground for his standoff with the feds. It was his third such press conference in as many weeks. Flanked by his appointed border czar and the adjutant…

Texas Observer

Border battle: Texas bans federal agents from controlling park

A border battle between the White House and Texas over control of a park along the Rio Grande, as both sides await a Supreme Court decision. Texas argues t...

Top News

Woman, Two Children Die Crossing Río Grande; BP Says Texas Troops Blocked them from Intervening

Texas authorities rejected the claim, saying they couldn't find migrants in need of help in the river

Latin Times

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

TX gov. blamed for migrant child deaths

Democrats speak out after Texas' Operation Lone Star blocked US Border Patrol from rescue effort at the Rio Grande

Salon

Three migrants including two children drown while trying to reach US near border city

Migrants are periodically killed when swept away by currents of Rio Grande

The Independent UK

Texas strings concertina wire along New Mexico border to deter migrants

Gov. Greg Abbott said the barrier — two rows of wire strung between metal posts near Interstate 10 — was necessary because migrants are crossing the border at New Mexico and walking into El Paso.

The Texas Tribune

Texas National Guard member fires across Rio Grande, wounds Mexican citizen

The Texas Military Department isn’t identifying the Guard member or providing details about the Saturday shooting. The man who was shot in the leg said he was working out near the river.

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the Houston Chronicle

55 stories

the Texas Department of Public Safety

51 stories

Operation Lone Star

44 stories

the Texas National Guard

38 stories

TMD

25 stories

the Texas Military Department

11 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.