Tag: Border security

The Texas General Land Office has offered President-elect Donald Trump a 1,400-acre Starr County ranch as a potential site for constructing detention centers to support his proposed mass deportations of undocumented immigrants. Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham expressed the office's...

Former Eagle Pass police detective Hazel Diaz has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for her involvement in a human smuggling operation. She allowed "stash houses" to operate out of her rental properties in the border community,...

US Customs and Border Protection officers have been collecting DNA samples from migrants at the southern border since 2020. This program, which is not widely known, has gathered information from over 1 million individuals to date. When migrants arrive...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel have been collecting DNA samples from migrants seeking asylum at the southern border since 2020. This program, which is not widely known, has gathered information from over 1 million individuals to date. Agents...