The attorney general's office once aggressively pursued fraudsters targeting immigrants. Not on Ken Paxton's watch.

As the president has mulled invading the island and imposed harsh sanctions, old legal pathways have closed while asylum denial rates for Cubans are near 80 percent.

“We’re gonna be riding around areas where most everybody thinks it’s unsafe, and you’re gonna see that there’s really nothing to be worried about.”

The plan, from Laredo trucking magnate Ruben Garibay, has the backing of key political leaders in Austin and D.C. Locals warn it's a boondoggle.

Ruben Garibay's push for a new trade bridge has won support from U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and other powerful leaders. But it's dividing Eagle Pass.

“The people we’re finding now dying on the U.S. side of the border are the people who could not wait.”

"A lot of the same arguments for why you wouldn't build it in Big Bend are the exact same arguments for why you wouldn't build it in Laredo," say opponents of the wall, as local officials have sought to accommodate the feds' demands.

The administration is using a new kind of “right-of-entry” request that allows building earlier in the legal process. Property owners could be signing away more than they realize, attorneys say.

The citizen-journalist and social media provocateur's case against local officials was thrown out in a decision that horrified First Amendment advocates. But, at home, observers say arresting her proved more trouble for the government than it was worth.

U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia’s order found that ICE can't have a blanket policy of arresting asylum seekers released under previous administrations.

Igor Babkin appeared to be following the rules of the U.S. asylum program. Two months ago, ICE arrested him in San Antonio, and he's still being detained.

The case of one Houston man, nearly deported to India after a quarter-century here, shows what happens when prosecutorial discretion is abandoned.

The unintended public health crisis of border militarization: as barriers increase, harm reduction workers are being blocked from reaching vulnerable populations who use drugs.

Along with the monetary settlement, city officials agreed to send its employees to training that the Texas Municipal League will develop about Sylvia Gonzalez’s case.

The Express-News and the Houston Chronicle pieced together the most detailed picture to date of spending under Greg Abbott's Operation Lone Star.

Greg Abbott's grants to local governments paid for pickups, printers, office furniture and other items with little connection to border security.

Legislation to allow some forms of drug checking has reached the same Senate committee where a similar bill died last session—two years and at least 3,200 Texas overdose deaths ago.

In recent years, vinyl has burst back into popularity. That has coincided with an increased interest in regional acts that never hit it big nationally: ‘There’s this hometime pride, a rediscovering of their roots’

A mass casualty event last spring lays bare the state’s backward approach to the ongoing crisis spurred by fentanyl and other super-potent substances.

The U.S. government's CBP One app was meant to create an orderly process for asylum seekers and reduce illegal border crossings. It's been a boon for cartels.