Texas National Guard

Laredo Sector Chief Jesse Muñoz discusses the partnership between U.S. Border Patrol and the Texas National Guard in immigration enforcement.

Since Abbott's Operation Lone Star began in 2021, at least 17 Texas National Guardsman have died from a multitude of causes, including a drowning in an attempt to save migrants, negligent discharge of a personally owned weapon and suicides.

Construction of the facility, which will be able to hold more than 2,000 soldiers upon completion, is the latest in the state’s years-long feud with the Biden administration over border security.

The ongoing political conflict at the border raises the question of how far Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and President Joe Biden can push back using the National Guard.

Residents of Eagle Pass say they're more worried about danger stirred up by Gov. Greg Abbott than by immigrants attempting to cross the Rio Grande.

According to documents obtained by the Army Times and The Texas Tribune, the soldier shot himself with his duty weapon.

With a lack of concrete results and about a year left in the state’s two-year budget cycle, it’s unclear whether Texas can afford to continue running the border security initiative in its current form.

Abbott expanded on comments he made about how he wants to “resurrect” the 1982 U.S. Supreme Court case Plyler v. Doe, which guaranteed that public schools would educate all students regardless of citizenship status.

The city of White Settlement is working with the North Central Texas Council of Governments and the Texas Military Department to address flooding along the arms of the Farmers Branch Creek that have cost millions of dollars in damages to the area over the years.

Specialist Bishop E. Evans, a 22-year-old was a field artilleryman from Arlington. He joined the Texas Army National Guard in 2019.

The dispatching of troops to the sprawling private ranches, far from the border, raises questions about the use of National Guard troops, who have widely decried the mission as aimless, political and oversized, as the cost of the effort has already ballooned to $2 billion a year.

The 1,700 unused wall panels are being stored in Eagle Pass. Texas didn’t have to explain its plans for the panels when it secured the federal donation.