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 ...

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There’s a reason Native Americans called barbed wire the “ devil’s rope.” The cruel embrace of the spikes offered 19th century settlers the solution they’d been looking for to stake their claims out ...

Video has been posted on social media showing a suspected illegal migrant climbing over a wall made out of shipping containers and razor wire on the Texas-Mexico border to arrive in the U.S. before ...

The Justice Department announced Wednesday it would be assessing the legality of Texas’ razor wire border fence after the Mexican president called it “inhumane.” As part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s ...

A woman and her three daughters recently made the harrowing trek from Colombia to El Paso — braving the nightmarish jungles of the Darién Gap, traveling more than 3,000 miles across a half-dozen ...

Republican Rep. Mike Collins unveiled legislation Thursday that would prohibit the Biden administration from snipping razor wire and tearing down other barriers that Texas has erected near the ...

A section of barbed wire is seen near Marron Valley, east of Otay Mountain, after installation by the U.S. Marines in December 2025. (Photo courtesy of the city of San Diego) This story was originally ...

The adjectives “ heinous,” “evil” and “cruel” have all been used to describe the Texas GOP’s anti-immigrant agenda, while Gov. Greg Abbott has cast himself as the border’s primary defender. Abbott ...

Regarding "Abbott plays chicken with Supreme Court on barbed wire (Thumbs)," (Jan. 27): The hypocrisy of conservative Republicans who call themselves Christians is astonishing. What do you think Jesus ...

The cruel embrace of the spikes offered 19th century settlers the solution they’d been looking for to stake their claims out west: a fence that kept cattle in, and undesirables out. Unsuspecting wild ...