Texas Gov. Greg Abbott plans to take nearly two dozen Republican Texas state representatives on Thursday to a controversial park in Eagle Pass that the state has blocked from federal officials in the name of border security.
A day after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the federal government can cut down concertina wire that the State of Texas put along the Rio Grande, the sharp wire is still up and it’s uncertain whether Border Patrol will take it down piece by piece, or not at all.
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In a windy field on the southern edge of Shelby Park on the banks of the Rio Grande, over 700 wooden crosses have been placed to honor migrants who died in 2023 trying to cross the Southwest border from Mexico.
Members of the Eagle Pass Border Vigil Coalition say they are "disappointed" by an appeals court decision late Thursday that allows the controversial border buoys put in the Rio Grande by the State of Texas to remain in the river.