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Democrat Katy Padilla Stout is campaigning on affordability, health care and education in Texas’ sprawling 23rd Congressional District, where Republican nominee Brandon Herrera’s online remarks have brought national scrutiny to the race.

Ben Masters has been making documentaries for the last 14 years.

Mexico has deployed 800 soldiers and anti-drone equipment at the U.S.-Mexico border to curb the use of commercial drones by cartels.

The Trump administration’s plans for an unprecedented expansion of border-policing infrastructure in Big Bend have also triggered an ambitious scientific initiative. The Big Bend Borderlands BioBlitz aims to document the biodiversity here before it’s damaged or destroyed.

The U.S. military used a laser to shoot down a Customs and Border Protection drone, members of Congress said Thursday, and the Federal Aviation Administration responded by closing more airspace near El Paso, Texas.

Human Rights groups are calling the immigration detention camp at Fort Bliss a human and civil rights disaster. They demand the federal government shut down the tent facility and warn living conditions are putting hundreds of people held there at risk.

Blood plasma is big business — especially along the U.S.–Mexico border. Every day, thousands of Mexican citizens cross legally into the United States, to sell their plasma. Supporters say they’re saving lives. Critics say it’s exploitation built on a loophole in immigration law. In part four of our series “Blood Work,” Texas Public Radio’s David Martin Davies reports.

The newly-designated military zones, which include sites in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, allow troops to detain migrants and others who trespass.

The latest figures were included in the agency's 2024 Uniform Crime Report.

Robbery, kidnapping, extortion, rape and murder— that’s what migrants face on their journey north. Jason De León spent years interviewing human smugglers in Mexico and Central America. De León argues it’s far more complicated than what American politicians and the media portrays. His book Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling won the National Book Award.