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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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has continued to install razor wire around a migrant-engulfed border city despite a US Supreme Court ruling this week that granted federal agents access to the area. “Texas’ ...

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 ...