People who crossed the U.S. border from Mexico are led, single-file, to a Border Patrol processing center along the banks of the Rio Grande in September. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) They ...

AUSTIN — The tangled miles of razor wire strewn along the banks of the Rio Grande are being manufactured by inmates in a minimum-security prison unit in East Texas using equipment purchased with funds ...

The tension between Texas and federal entities on the U.S.-Mexico border plays out in odd but also predictable ways, with humanitarian and security consequences. Consider the revelation that the state ...

EAGLE PASS, Texas — They waded across the Rio Grande holding hands to form a human chain as frustrated Texas National Guard members shouted warnings in Spanish from behind stacked-up coils of razor ...