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Law enforcement officials say gunmen aboard a number of vehicles have staged attacks in several neighborhoods in the Mexican border city of Reynosa.
Mexico president to investigate border shooting of innocents

By Alfredo Peña And Fabiola Sanchez Jun. 21, 2021 04:30 PM EDT

Migrants from Honduras wait in a Border Patrol truck after turning themselves in upon crossing the U.S.-Mexico border Monday, May 17, 2021, in La Joya, Texas. The Biden administration has agreed to let up to about 250 people a day in the United States at border crossings with Mexico to seek refuge, part of negotiations to settle a lawsuit over pandemic-related powers that deny migrants a right to apply for asylum, an attorney said Monday. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
US eases asylum restrictions at border amid legal challenges

By Elliot Spagat And Adriana Gomez Licon May. 18, 2021 12:10 AM EDT

Minor children are housed inside a pod at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley run by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in Donna, Texas, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. The minors are housed by the hundreds in eight pods that are about 3,200 square feet in size. Many of the pods had more than 500 children in them. The Biden administration on Tuesday for the first time allowed journalists inside its main detention facility at the border for migrant children, revealing a severely overcrowded tent structure where more than 4,000 kids and families were crammed into pods and the youngest kept in a large play pen with mats on the floor for sleeping.(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, Pool)
EXPLAINER: Questions remain about conditions of migrant kids

By Elliot Spagat And Nomaan Merchant Mar. 31, 2021 07:14 PM EDT

Decrease seen in Texans showing up for COVID-19 vaccine

Mar. 25, 2021 07:36 PM EDT
McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday that he's hoping to increase the number of Texans getting COVID-19 vaccines after seeing a drop in...

Migrants walk on a dirt road after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, Tuesday, March 23, 2021, in Mission, Texas. The Biden administration says that it's working to address the increase in migrants coming to the border. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Border crossings strain resources in Rio Grande Valley

By Adriana Gomez Licon And John Mone Mar. 25, 2021 01:01 AM EDT

A traveler waiting in line to cross a customs area into the U.S. at the McAllen-Hidalgo International Bridge looks back as a group of migrants are deported to Reynosa, Mexico, Thursday, March 18, 2021, in Hidalgo, Texas. A surge of migrants on the Southwest border has the Biden administration on the defensive. The head of Homeland Security acknowledged the severity of the problem Tuesday but insisted it's under control and said he won't revive a Trump-era practice of immediately expelling teens and children. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Emergency sites for migrant children raising safety concerns

By Nomaan Merchant And Adriana Gomez Licon Mar. 18, 2021 03:57 PM EDT

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks on the topic of illegal immigration during a press conference on the border at Anzalduas Park, Tuesday, March 9, 2021, in Mission, Texas. (Joel Martinez/The Monitor via AP)
No evidence migrants at border significantly spreading virus

By Paul J. Weber And Nomaan Merchant Mar. 10, 2021 05:30 PM EST

In this Oct. 31, 2020, photo, supporters of President Donald Trump drive in caravan down Calle Ocho in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami. President Donald Trump and his Republican allies made significant inroads with Latino voters in Tuesday’s election, alarming some Democrats who warned that immigration politics alone was not enough to hold their edge with the nation’s largest minority group. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Confounding Democrats, Trump makes inroads with Latinos

By Nicholas Riccardi And Adriana Gomez Licon Nov. 06, 2020 01:09 AM EST

Daythan and Wanda Brooks receive a pamphlet from Jeremy Marshall with Genevieve Collins' campaign as they prepare to vote early at the polling place at the Collin College campus in Wylie, Texas on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020. (Juan Figueroa/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
Race for Texas intensifies amid surging turnout, COVID cases

By Will Weissert And Paul J. Weber Oct. 30, 2020 09:50 AM EDT

FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2018, file photo, immigrants who entered the United States illegally wait to board a plane for a deportation flight. More than 2,000 unaccompanied children have been expelled since March under an emergency declaration enacted by the Trump administration, which has cited the coronavirus in refusing to provide them protections under federal anti-trafficking and asylum laws. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
Seeking refuge in US, children fleeing danger are expelled

By Nomaan Merchant Aug. 06, 2020 12:13 AM EDT

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wears a face mask during a visit to a Texas Division of Emergency Management Warehouse filled with Personal Protective Equipment, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
State reports almost 9,200 new coronavirus cases, 245 deaths

Aug. 04, 2020 07:25 PM EDT

Austin, Texas made Tito's Handmade Vodka visits Brownsville, Texas Sports Park Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020, to distribute thousands of Tito's made hand cleanser sanitizer to thousands of Brownsville residents to help fight the spread of COVID-19. (Miguel Roberts/The Brownsville Herald via AP)
Houston to enforce masks with fines; Texas deaths top 7,000

Aug. 03, 2020 06:10 PM EDT

A Hampton Inn is shown Tuesday, July 21, 2020 in Phoenix. The Trump administration is detaining immigrant children as young as 1 in hotels before deporting them to their home countries. Documents obtained by The Associated Press show a private contractor hired by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is taking children to three Hampton Inns in Arizona and Texas under restrictive border policies implemented during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Matt York)
US won’t expel migrant children detained in Texas hotel

By Nomaan Merchant Jul. 27, 2020 05:19 PM EDT

Myrle Tucker surveys the marina where is was rescued over night after his boat was damaged and sunk after it was hit by Hurricane Hanna, Sunday, July 26, 2020, in Corpus Christi,Texas. Tucker's boat and about 30 others were lost or damaged in the storm. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Cleanup from Hanna spurs fear amid COVID-19 surge in Texas

By John L. Mone And Juan A. Lozano Jul. 26, 2020 11:49 PM EDT

A Hampton Inn is shown Tuesday, July 21, 2020 in Phoenix. The Trump administration is detaining immigrant children as young as 1 in hotels before deporting them to their home countries. Documents obtained by The Associated Press show a private contractor hired by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is taking children to three Hampton Inns in Arizona and Texas under restrictive border policies implemented during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Matt York)
US sued over expulsion of migrant children detained in hotel

By Nomaan Merchant Jul. 24, 2020 09:23 PM EDT

A Hampton Inn is shown Tuesday, July 21, 2020 in Phoenix. The Trump administration is detaining immigrant children as young as 1 in hotels before deporting them to their home countries. Documents obtained by The Associated Press show a private contractor hired by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is taking children to three Hampton Inns in Arizona and Texas under restrictive border policies implemented during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Matt York)
Monitor calls on US to stop detaining migrant kids in hotels

By Nomaan Merchant Jul. 23, 2020 11:44 AM EDT

A voter, right, shows his identification to a Harris County election clerk before voting, Tuesday, July 14, 2020, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Virus deaths hit new high in Texas as governor urges masks

By Paul J. Weber And Juan A. Lozano Jul. 15, 2020 07:14 PM EDT

COVID-19 antibody testing and diagnostic testing are administered at a converted vehicle inspection station, Tuesday, July 7, 2020, in San Antonio. Local officials across Texas say their hospitals are becoming increasingly stretched and are in danger of becoming overrun as cases of the coronavirus surge. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Texas passes 10,000 confirmed new virus cases in single day

By Paul J. Weber Jul. 07, 2020 05:09 PM EDT