Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) believes he showed other governors the way forward if there is ever another border crisis like the ...

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Soldiers assigned to 3rd Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, conduct a dismounted squad patrol along the southern border outside of Sierra Blanca, Texas, March 31, 2025.

When President Trump dispatched Fort Carson troops to help secure more than 1,000 miles of mostly rugged and remote terrain along the Southern Border this spring, the flow of migrants northward had ...

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EXCLUSIVE — The Trump administration will soon install 900 miles of buoy barrier at the United States-Mexico border, marking the first time the U.S. government has used a water-based defense system to ...

(AP) — The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious, The Associated Press ...