People gather for a vigil May 5, 2025, at Shelby Park by the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas, in part to honor people who died as they attempted to cross the border from Mexico into the U.S. The park, ...

EAGLE PASS, Texas (Border Report) — A group of migrants screamed and flailed as a woman nearly went under as she tried to cross the swollen Rio Grande from Piedras Negras, Mexico, into Eagle Pass, ...

A version of this story ran in the September / October 2025 issue. On a late-April weekend, I went down to Eagle Pass to look at Operation Lone Star (OLS), Governor Greg Abbott’s multibillion-dollar ...

EXCLUSIVE — The Trump administration will soon install more than 500 miles of buoy barrier at the United States-Mexico border, marking the first time the U.S. government has used a water-based defense ...