U.S. Border Patrol agents exchanged gunfire with suspected cartel members at the Texas-Mexico border on Monday afternoon.

The troops, part of a unit called the Texas Tactical Border Force, will join those already deployed to the border through Texas' Operation Lone Star.

Federal authorities Friday announced 30 arrests and more than 43 people charged in connection with an alleged drug cartel laundering scheme centered in Houston that saw cellphones purchased and sold to launder money to Mexico.

The feds say Nestor Flores Encarnacion, 58, illegally entered the U.S. four times to evade prosecution for raping an 8-year-old child in Mexico.

A woman from Houston attempted to smuggle a mixture of narcotics through an international bridge in Laredo, according to an arrest affidavit.

An illegal immigrant wanted in Mexico for allegedly raping a child was repatriated back to his country after entering the U.S. four times illegally since 2002.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is sending helicopters and hundreds more soldiers from bases in Houston and Fort Worth to the U.S.-Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley.

The family of Kennia Guardado Molina, a 27-year-old woman from Honduras who was killed in Houston, is speaking out as the suspect remains on the run.

Google says it will take its cue from the U.S. government if it has to change the names of the Gulf of Mexico and Denali on its Maps service.

During their three-week journey north from Honduras, the Carranza family were kidnapped twice. And then once they made it to the Texas border in August 2019, and tried to claim asylum, they were

Trump has repeatedly insisted that tariffs are coming on Canada and Mexico, despite both countries seeking to address his stated concerns about illegal border crossings and the smuggling of fentanyl. But the Republican president is also motivated by the idea that tariffs would force other countries to “respect” the United States.

The stakes are particularly high for Texas and other border states, where trade with Mexico is worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year.