Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The young man sitting on the compact metal bullpen at the rodeo in Uvalde, Texas, hardly looks old enough to drive. But in the saddle, he ...

The sun sets over the Rio Grande at Big Bend Ranch State Park in Terlingua, Texas, on March 3. (Photos by Thomas Simonetti/For The Washington Post) The aggressive pace of expansion has alarmed advocates who say the construction will destroy pristine ...

REDFORD, Texas—Plans for a border wall through the Big Bend region of West Texas are raising alarms among residents and elected officials. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) intends to build border barriers throughout this remote region of Texas ...

In the desert of New Mexico, under wide open skies, the US Border Patrol is bulking up. A record number of recruits, many Latino, Spanish-speaking, and from border towns they know well, are heading to the agency’s training academy, where more assertive ...

The latest city official to contend with Border Patrol agents is Janet Cowell, mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina. When they landed in Raleigh this week, she didn’t know much about their plans; the best guidance she could offer residents was that if they ...

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President Donald Trump is accelerating his effort to finish his border wall and setting an ambitious goal of completing it by the end of his administration. He’ll need landowners whose property runs along the US-Mexico border to hand over their land to ...

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is a policy reporter at The Verge covering surveillance, the Department of Homeland Security, and the tech-right. No one paid attention to the gunshots that echoed through the convention center. They were real enough, and so were the screams that ...

Reporting supported by the Water Desk at the University of Colorado, Boulder. BROWNSVILLE, Texas—An experiment unfolding at the southernmost tip of this state could irrevocably change the iconic Rio Grande and the communities it sustains. Contractors are ...

Follow the owners of Border Town as they transition from a roving breakfast taco stand to a brick-and-mortar shop. By Amanda Choy Amanda Choy, a senior video journalist, followed Border Town for nearly a year for this episode of “Secret’s Out.”

The Border Patrol has been putting a renewed focus on highway checkpoint operations in the San Diego area as migrant crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border have quieted under the Trump administration. Border Patrol officials said they are now able to restore some operations,