Residents in the border community of McAllen, Texas, are preparing for U.S. president-elect Donald Trump to take swift action ...

Since Gov. Greg Abbott launched his border security mission, Operation Lone Star, in 2021, OLS officers have apprehended more ...

In the weeks leading up to Donald Trump's inauguration, border residents, faith community leaders and law enforcement weigh ...

President-elect Donald Trump will tap Texas Border Czar Mike Banks to lead the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, according ...

Mike Banks, who has spearheaded Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's border crackdown, is expected to be appointed Border Patrol chief ...

Mike Banks, a former Border Patrol agent, has served in his current role as a special advisor to Gov. Greg Abbott since ...

Enforcing immigration law at the border is the federal government’s role. But in Texas, that job has increasingly been taken ...

Texas' senior U.S. senator says he expects Trump to move swiftly on border matters once he resumes office next week.

Banks has been serving as the Lone Star State’s first-ever border czar — a position created by Gov. Greg Abbott in 2023 to ...

As Donald Trump returns to the White House, Texans are already bracing for big impacts in a state that the returning ...

Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens is retiring in April, and will be replaced by Texas Border Czar Mike Banks, after a historic ...

A 1.5-mile segment of state-built border wall on newly acquired state land in Starr County in South Texas is completed, state ...