Two women sentenced for attempting to smuggle 7-year-old Mexican boy into Texas
Two women were sentenced to federal prison after attempting to smuggle a 7-year-old boy from Mexico to San Antonio.
Since Trump’s ‘Emergency,’ What Is Actually Happening on the Border?
Bored troops are standing watch, shelters have emptied from McAllen, Texas, to Tucson, Ariz., and border patrols speed ...
The Associated Press on MSN10d
With Plans in the Works and Troops on the Way, Military Assumes a Mostly Familiar Role on the Border
Until now, the military has limited itself to a supporting role at the border: surveilling for illegal crossings by ground ...
The Associated Press on MSN12d
Marines use Osprey aircraft and concertina wire to fortify the border wall
U.S. officials say the Pentagon is readying deployment of nearly 1,000 additional active duty troops to bolster President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration, including dozens of Marines working ...
Gov. Abbott directs Texas military to work with Trump on border security
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is sending hundreds of soldiers in the Texas Military Department to work with the U.S. Border Patrol in the Rio Grande Valley.
The Texas Tribune on MSN1d
Trump’s mass deportation plans have echoes of a 1950s federal crackdown that swept through Texas
Seventy-one years after the Eisenhower administration launched a high-visibility operation to arrest undocumented immigrants, ...
The Washington Post12d
With plans in the works and troops on the way, military assumes a mostly familiar role on the border
Isacson said he believes the administration may see a model in Texas Gov ... The Marines laid concertina wire Friday at the bottom of an 18-foot-high (5.5-meter-high) border wall that already ...
Troops bolster Texas border security amid immigration crackdown
This is the second arrival of troops in El Paso since President Donald Trump announced that The Pentagon would be sending ...