Gustavo Alfonso Garcia Olivares died at 24, drowning in the Rio Grande not far from where he was buried Thursday at the Maverick County Cemetery in Eagle Pass,

More than a year after Texas soldiers fenced off and locked out Border Patrol agents from accessing the United States-Mexico border as thousands of illegal immigrants surged across, state authorities have unchained the gate and reopened the door to their federal partners,

Greg Abbott (R) has doubled the size of a buoy barrier in the Rio Grande in the last couple of years. Around 1,000 feet has been added to the barrier, which has previously been challenged in court. It was created in July 2023.

Texas's water buoy barrier in the Rio Grande to stop illegal immigration was the subject of a DOJ lawsuit under the Biden administration.

As Vice President J.D. Vance visited the South Texas border town of Eagle Pass urging stricter border security, a grassroots organization displayed shoes found on the Rio Grande, which they say

He was expected to get an aerial tour of the border city, visit an immigration processing center and deliver remarks on the Trump administration's immigration enforcement policies in Shelby Park, a public park on the banks of the Rio Grande seized by the State of Texas.

Immigration advocates hold a funeral in Eagle Pass, Texas on Thursday, February. 6, 2025, for Gustavo Alfonso Garcia Olivares, who drowned in November 2023 after crossing the Rio Grande into

During his visit to Eagle Pass, Vice President JD Vance urged migrants without legal documentation to self-deport to their home countries.