EAGLE PASS, Texas — More than a year after Texas soldiers fenced off and locked out Border Patrol agents from accessing the United States-Mexico border as thousands of illegal immigrants surged across, state authorities have unchained the gate and reopened the door to their federal partners, the Washington Examiner has learned.

The cries of a mother watching from Venezuela through a cellphone pierced through the somber Christian music and gusts of wind as her son's casket was lowered into the ground.

The facility, which opened in 2022, was originally designed to quickly process people in Border Patrol custody.

Officials in Texas discuss strategies to enhance border security, critiquing previous administration's policies.

As Vice President J.D. Vance visited the South Texas border town of Eagle Pass urging stricter border security, a grassroots organization displayed shoes found on the Rio Grande, which they say