Eagle Pass

Rolando Salinas Jr. said authorities are expecting between several thousand more migrants to cross through the city in the coming days.

The border communities of Eagle Pass and Piedras Negras came together for a vigil Monday night to mourn the lives lost crossing the Rio Grande.

The Eagle Pass City Council delivered a setback to Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star. The council reacted Tuesday night to community complaints that the Texas Department of Public Safety has gotten out of control in its enforcement of border security.

In a blow to his Operation Lone Star, the Eagle Pass City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to rescind an affidavit declaring a local park the mayor’s private property.

An email from the Texas Department of Public Safety alleged state troopers witnessed several incidents of abuse against migrants in Eagle Pass as part of Operation Lone Star, Gov. Greg Abbott's controversial border security initiative. State officials deny the allegations.

One day after 17 migrants were found suffocating in a train car in Texas, law enforcement authorities found 12 more migrants on Saturday in another rail car along the border with Mexico. One of the migrants was dead.

Few, if any, have made it to the U.S.-Mexico border since police in the Mexican border state of Coahuila began blocking, detaining and even deporting migrants in accordance with that state’s “Operation Mirror,” backed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced late Friday that it will temporarily close and re-route traffic from Del Rio to Eagle Pass in order to respond to the “urgent safety and security needs” presented by thousands of migrants waiting underneath the international bridge connecting Del Rio with Ciudad Acuña.

Through Sul Ross State University and the Rio Grande College, the Texas State University System has been providing higher education to the Middle Rio Grande area of the Texas border. But community members and state lawmakers are unsatisfied and want the opportunity to grow under a new university system.

Less than 25,000 families and unaccompanied children have crossed the border in recent months, compared to millions of essential travelers. But frustrations over pandemic restrictions for nonessential travelers and migrants are growing.