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Border Vigil in Eagle Pass has been holding monthly vigils to remember the immigrants who have drowned trying to cross the Rio Grande. The group’s members have recently been receiving training in recovering human remains at the border.
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The space named for a Confederate general became a battleground in a fight between the State of Texas and the Biden administration over immigration enforcement.
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The State of Texas took over the park in January 2024 following a rise in border crossings.
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection said immigrant encounters are down, so it also planned to close soft-sided facilities in Donna and Laredo as well as Yuma and Tucson, Arizona.
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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.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had sued the Biden administration after Border Patrol agents had cut the razor wire.
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"The Border is Beautiful" exhibition takes the works of nearly 50 artists to showcase their own unique perspectives of what it's like having ties to binational and bicultural communities.
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'Even though we focus on the immigrants, we also understand that the pressure that the National Guard people are going through,' said Pastor Javier Leyva.
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"The Border is Beautiful" exhibit in Eagle Pass features the works of nearly 50 artists and highlights the diverse communities, people, and perspectives from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Texas has sent thousands of soldiers to the border as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s multibillion-dollar initiative Operation Lone Star. No border town has felt their presence more than Eagle Pass.