Greg Abbott

The governor wants to finish the wall that Donald Trump began on the Texas-Mexico border, but he'll have to overcome the same hurdles that impeded the ex-president's efforts.

In an interview with the Standard, the governor says he’ll call “special session after special session” until the Republican-backed legislation passes.

After an all night hearing over the weekend, lawmakers advanced a controversial package of voting restrictions. It’s the second push on the measures — Democrats had walked out before a previous vote.

Abbott’s campaign coffers hit the balance after he raised over $18.7 million during the last 10 days of June, his campaign announced Thursday. The campaign said the cash-on-hand total was larger “than any other statewide candidate in Texas history.”

While many Texas prisons are understaffed, some dangerously so, the emptied-out Briscoe Unit in Dilley is in "maintenance mode" as officials scramble to implement the governor's plan to increase the state's role in border enforcement.

In a new court filing, the attorney general's office said the governor properly used his veto power when he nixed funding for the Legislature in response to House Democrats walkout over a Republican priority bill on elections.

The Texas GOP chairman made his campaign official Sunday.

Even if the governor makes modest progress on a southern border wall, a Dallas Morning News reporter says it could be enough to show supporters he’s serious about restricting immigration.

Former President Donald Trump returned to the U.S.-Mexico border Wednesday and joined Gov. Greg Abbott at a border security briefing in Weslaco.

Gov. Greg Abbott has issued a call for qualified current and former county jailers to assist border sheriffs with operating detention facilities and providing jail beds.