EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Texas state Rep. Eddie Morales, D-Eagle Pass, represents a far-flung district that extends from his hometown of Eagle Pass in South Texas to West Texas and East El Paso. Morales, who has represented House District 74 since 2020, was in El Paso on Friday, Feb. 23. He participated in the […]
Two Texas House members and an immigration lawyer sat down with Matthew Watkins, the Tribune’s managing editor of news and politics, to discuss the current state of Texas’ border and immigration bills that lawmakers are weighing during the special session.
Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan was among a group of Republicans who toured the border here by air and boat on Tuesday as lawmakers in Austin prepare to debate a controversial border security spending bill.
After a weeks-long closure due to a migrant surge in Eagle Pass, Texas, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said they plan to reopen Bridge 1 to vehicular traffic on Monday.
When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott met this week with Gov.-Elect Manolo Jiménez Salinas, of the Mexican State of Coahuila, they talked border security and nearshoring, but a Texas border lawmaker tells Border Report that the mandatory truck inspections in Eagle Pass, Texas, are what the leaders really need to sort out.