RIO GRANDE RIVER

A video posted by Gov. Greg Abbott on his social media account Wednesday showed razor wire that he ordered installed along the banks of the Rio Grande River in Eagle Pass cut and removed.

The State of Texas was granted an emergency stay on Thursday, one day after a federal judge ordered the buoys to be moved.

It’s been about three months since Gov. Greg Abbott had the multimillion-dollar buoys put in the Rio Grande River, and now a federal judge has issued an order to have them moved.

Nearly three months after Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the deployment of the 1,000-foot line of buoys and mesh in the Rio Grande, an Austin federal judge ordered the state to remove the barrier and stop building further obstructions in the river. One day later a higher court sided with Texas.

The buoys affect everything that’s swimming in the river — anything from the small little bugs, macroinvertebrates that are in the channel, all the way up the food chain to the larger fish.

The Justice Department is suing Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott over a floating barrier that the state placed on the Rio Grande to stop migrants from entering the U.S. The lawsuit filed Monday asks a court to force Texas to remove a line of bright orange, wrecking ball-sized buoys that the Biden administration says raises humanitarian and environmental concerns.

Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday announced a plan to deploy a chain of 4-foot-high orange buoys that will run along the middle of the Rio Grande River in an effort to keep migrants from crossing into Texas.

Mexico's Defense Department has confirmed that soldiers opened fire on a pickup truck in the violent northern border city of Nuevo Laredo over the weekend, killing five men and wounding a sixth.

Mexican army soldiers have apparently clashed with residents of the rough border city of Nuevo Laredo.

Cities along the U.S.-Mexico border are setting in motion humanitarian efforts including emergency shelter, food and transportation services ahead of an expected dramatic increase in the number of asylum-seekers as pandemic-era immigration restrictions are set to expire this week.

The United Nations says almost three-quarters of the 6 million Venezuelan migrants currently in Latin America lack adequate food, shelter, employment or medical care.

The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that the eight suspects coordinated the transportation of the migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border to other parts of the country.

On Saturday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirmed that nine migrants had died while trying to cross the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass.

In Eagle Pass, hundreds of migrants continue to wade the waters of the Rio Grande River and enter the US, guided by smugglers. Find out what happens to the guide when they’re caught in the act.

Border Patrol hosts security event Tuesday morning in the Rio Grande Valley. The event is aimed to cast a light on dangers undocumented immigrants face when entering the US.

Gunfire and burning vehicles in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo led U.S. officials to briefly close the U.S. consulate and briefly shut down border crossings there.

The Texas National Guard and Department of Public Safety have put up a steel container wall along the Rio Grande River in Eagle Pass.

San Antonians are stepping in to help thousands of Haitian migrants who crossed the Rio Grande River from Mexico into Del Rio.

A 2-year-old girl and a 3-month-old boy were found on the riverbank by agents performing boat operations.

The Texas Legislature has left Austin, and Gov. Greg Abbott has turned his attentions to the state's border with Mexico, where the policy issues are difficult and the politics are rewarding.

ROMA, Texas – A small town in Texas that borders Mexico is an area that is considered a “hot zone” for migrant traffic, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Hundreds of migrants have made their way into Texas by crossing the Rio Grande River from Ciudad Miguel Alemán in Tamaulipas, Mexico. In February, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials stated in a news release that agents had apprehended more than 16,000 family units. AdOn Friday, our crews witnessed smugglers crossing over five rafts of anywhere between 12 to 15 migrants packed onto each raft. Ad“We saw cages after cages after cages of little girls and little boys lying side by side, touching each other, covered with reflective emergency blankets.