Texas Democrats are urging the Trump administration to delay its plans for building border barriers and roads across the West Texas park. Bulldozers and trucks bearing the logo of the contractor awarded $1.7 billion for the project were seen in the national park on Tuesday as local activists warn construction could start at any moment.

Civil rights groups will collect testimony Tuesday about detention, surveillance and the effects of federal immigration enforcement on families, businesses and communities.

A federal judge on Sunday rejected a Presidio, Texas entity's request to block construction over claims that the Trump administration violated the Rivers and Harbors Act in pursuing the border wall build near the city's levee system.

Officials in Jeff Davis and Presidio counties are holding off on making deals with a border wall contractor that's aiming to use a remote dirt road to the Rio Grande as a key access point for the Trump administration's Big Bend area border wall.

Texas General Land Office Commissioner Dawn Buckingham on Friday sent cease and desist letters to Barnard Construction and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, claiming the border wall contractor had performed "illegal" land clearing work on state-owned land in southern Presidio County.

The South Texas native discusses his works and how they're influenced by the duality that exists living on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Democratic lawmakers, physicians and advocates renewed calls to release detained families and close the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, citing an increase in the number of children held there from 96 in May to 112.

Hundreds of federal border buoys broke loose during recent flooding along the Rio Grande, disrupting traffic at international bridges and intensifying concerns that the floating barriers could endanger critical infrastructure and public safety.

The waiver clears the way for barriers, roads and surveillance infrastructure, though federal officials have not specified what will be built throughout the project area.

The U.S. will resume limited imports of Mexican cattle on Aug. 24, reopening a trade route that had been closed for more than a year because of the northward spread of New World screwworm. The move comes as tight cattle supplies have pushed beef prices to record highs.