Topic: Border Patrol

Only a locked classroom door stood between Pete Arredondo and a chance to bring down the gunman at a Uvalde, Texas, school. It was sturdily built with a steel jamb, impossible to kick in, he told the Texas Tribune.

The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday against a man who sued a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent for using excessive force in 2014.

Texas law enforcement officials on Thursday walked back their initial reports that a school resource officer confronted a gunman who killed 21 people at a Uvalde elementary school.

Federal authorities say they have uncovered a long and sophisticated tunnel that runs from Southern California to Mexico and was built to send large amounts of drugs past border guards.

National Guard Spc. Bishop Evans jumped into the raging waters to rescue two migrants without a flotation device, the Texas Military Department said

The body of a Texas Army National Guardsman who jumped into the Rio Grand River to save migrants from drowning as they tried to cross into the United States late last week has been recovered, officials said.

Two active-duty soldiers stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, have been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty in an illegal immigrant smuggling scheme.

Earlier this year, about 30 Texas National Guard members were ordered to stand watch outside some of the wealthiest private ranches in South Texas, more than an hour's drive away from the Mexico border.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has sent waves of troops to the border as National Guard officials scramble to execute a massive mobilization that would normally take months to plan.

Authorities in Manitoba said officers have found the bodies of four people who froze to death within yards of the U.S.-Canada border while prosecutors in the United States have charged a Florida man with human smuggling.