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Lopez, leader of a drug trafficking organization with cartel ties, was sentenced to a life sentence in Midland for drug ...

Liberty County deputies, alongside multiple agencies, seized a large amount of meth and arrested three men during a traffic ...

Derek Maltz formerly worked at PenLink, a Nebraska-based tech firm that has sold software that can track phone locations ...

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer was allegedly involved in smuggling for years on the border in El Paso, Texas.

U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration El Paso Division officials confirmed the agency also assisted "DHS and other federal law ...

Venezuelan migrant Yessenia and her husband Maikol awoke last week to loud footsteps and knocks in their apartment building ...

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer was arrested in El Paso on criminal charges ...

Immigration enforcement operations have intensified since President Donald Trump took office, with multiple federal agencies, ...

Interviews suggest some people swept up in Trump's immigration crackdown are dedicated to their families and communities — ...

The state has vowed to assist the president in his efforts to revamp immigration. But the state’s biggest cities and school districts are more reluctant to help.