At least four people were killed in severe storms in the near Texas' border with Mexico amid heavy rain and flooding, officials said on Friday. Hidalgo, Willacy and Cameron counties in Texas faced among the heaviest storms,

The border operation's price tag is expected to jump to almost $18 billion by fall 2027 under the proposed budget.

U.S. Army Stryker armored vehicles began rolling to locations along the Mexican border in El Paso and the Big Bend regions of West Texas, the military's Joint Task Force Southern Border said.

The Texas Senate unanimously approved a $336 billion budget that includes teacher pay raises, a school voucher program, and property tax cuts. Key budget priorities include $6.5 billion for border security, $6.5 billion for property tax relief, and nearly $10 billion for energy, water, and broadband infrastructure.

Abandoned vehicles littered submerged roads across South Texas’ Rio Grande Valley Thursday and Friday after over half year’s worth of rain - approaching a full year’s worth in some places - caused at least four deaths and forced dozens of water rescues near the US-Mexico border.

Over 260 soldiers from the Texas National Guard have been deputized under Title 8 to arrest migrants at the border.

A former Customs and Border Protection officer has been sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison for smuggling migrants into the U.S. and accepting bribes from the cartel.

A proposed $336.1 billion state spending plan that includes money for teacher pay raises, border security, property tax cuts and beefing up the workforce passed the Texas Senate unanimously on Tuesday.

On this and every Thursday, the volunteers at Border Missions, a Christian ministry, serve 350 to 400 food-insecure community members who receive a free hot meal, worship together and take groceries home.