Border Report on Wednesday confirmed that "hundreds" of military troops have been repositioned from other border posts to the Rio Grande Valley and are actively patrolling from McAllen, in Hidalgo County, and throughout Starr County. It comes after Coast Guard were shot at Sept. 26 from Mexico while patrolling the Rio Grande in Starr County.

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McALLEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — In March, when customs officers caught Acxel Marquez transporting drugs, his mother received a phone call. Marquez had crossed the border with 121 pounds of methamphetamine. If convicted, he faced a mandatory minimum of 10 years in federal prison. “Her response was: ‘Ni modo,’” Assistant Federal Public Defender Christina Conway-Navarro said [...]

A steady stream of people on Monday signed up to register to vote in the upcoming Nov. 3 election at the Hidalgo County Elections Offices in Edinburg. Monday was the deadline to register to vote for the upcoming elections in Texas.

BorderReport enumera titulares recientes, como la orden de un juez que detuvo la obra en Big Bend, la ampliación del control de matrícula estatal por el DOJ y la aprobación de $330 mil para agua potable en colonias fronterizas. Se publicaron hace entre una y dos semanas, y el dato más relevante para los residentes del Valle del Río Grande es la financiación para mejorar el suministro de agua en sus colonias.

Operation Lone Star is still in effect today but its future is possibly on the line with the upcoming midterm elections. Abbott's Democratic opponent, State Rep. Gina Hinojosa, has criticized the policy in the past.

HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) – Vice President JD Vance, Gov. Greg Abbott and Saronic Technologies' CEO Dino Mavrookas will attend Port Alpha's groundbreaking at the Port of Brownsville on Wednesday morning The event is expected to begin at 10:45 a.m. ValleyCentral will livestream the event in the video player above. The groundbreaking comes after Austin-based Saronic [...]

McALLEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection caught a woman crossing the Roma bridge with 78 pounds of cocaine on Friday morning. Erika Janeth Cobos, 30, of Roma crossed the bridge at 6:33 a.m. Friday. Cobos had eight children — all younger than 15 years old — in her 2011 GMC Acadia. Customs [...]

HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) - Vice President JD Vance will be visiting the Rio Grande Valley this week. He is expected to attend a Midterm Rally at the Harlingen Convention Center on Wednesday, Sept. 30. Doors to the event open at 10 a.m. with the vice president speaking at noon. Vance canceled a trip to the [...]

The BorderReport site shows recent headlines such as the arrest of “El Tavo” in a police‑helicopter attack three days ago, a teen’s mother deported after ICE‑raid videos four days ago, and a judge allowing a SpaceX land exchange. It also reports Sheinbaum’s planned visit to Juárez amid a US‑agent dispute and a boost in commercial traffic to Del Rio from Mexico, a detail of particular interest to Rio Grande Valley residents.

BorderReport is an online portal that lists border‑related regions such as El Paso, Juárez, South Texas, San Diego, Tijuana, New Mexico/Arizona and provides navigation links to topics like immigration, cartels, wall, and migrant centers. The page invites users to enter a search term and view recent videos and articles. A Rio Grande Valley resident would note that the site aggregates border news and multimedia for their area.

Texas General Land Office Commissioner Dawn Buckingham says rare earth minerals used in cellphones and other devices have been found in state lands in West Texas near the border.

In this episode of Border Report Live, the leader of a religious-based nonprofit talks about assisting vulnerable migrants who are waiting for U.S. asylum in northern Mexico.

McALLEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A sex offender from Alaska was placed on probation Tuesday after he paid smugglers to bring a woman and her 14-year-old daughter across the Rio Grande. Douglas Price, 44, of Chugiak, Alaska, paid smugglers at least $5,000 to bring the woman and her daughter across the border in January. “I accept [...]

The mother of an Edinburg teenager who was arrested by ICE earlier this month while taking a friend to enlist in the Marines and posted about it, was arrested and deported on Monday outside her work.

Despite public opposition, a federal judge has refused to temporarily block a controversial land exchange that would transfer hundreds of acres of a South Texas wildlife refuge to SpaceX.

McALLEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A businessman from McAllen pleaded not guilty to a conspiracy charge on Thursday after federal prosecutors linked him to a major drug shipment. Prosecutors linked Jose Luis Garcia Gonzalez Jr., 46, of McAllen to a couple from Bay City, Texas, that got caught with more than 345 pounds of cocaine. “Not [...]

In the latest episode of Border Report Live, host Sandra Sanchez asked RGV Sector Chief Patrol Agent Jared Ashby about the continued high number of migrants agents say are crossing illegally from Mexico into this region. Plus meet 'Chloe' the first Border Patrol rescue canine to be sworn in.

McALLEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A bookie who collected nearly $3.8 million from high-rollers in South Texas pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge on Monday. Marco Antonio Cardenas, 48, of Mission — and other people who participated in the conspiracy — received nearly $3.8 million from March 2019 to March 2026. Cardenas collected nearly $2.9 [...]

The South Texas border towns of Brownsville and Edinburg were recently named as two of the four newest Texas arts districts in the state. In this episode of Border Report Live, host Sandra Sanchez speaks with Diane Milliken Garza, a commissioner with the Texas Commission on the Arts on the importance of these arts designations for attracting state funding and tourism to the region.

For the second time in two weeks, U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Monday said migrants were found in locked train rail cars in the South Texas border down of Del Rio.

HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Pharr International Bridge discovered more than $25 million worth of methamphetamine hidden in a shipment of vegetables. On Tuesday, Sept. 8, a tractor trailer traveling from Reynosa to Pharr was ordered to undergo a secondary inspection. That's when CBP officers say they found [...]

A new report from the Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General found that some immigration detainees at the now-shuttered Alligator Alcatraz facility were confined to outdoor cages just slightly larger than phone booths for more than an hour at a time.

McALLEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A woman accused of counting cash at a stash house was held without bond Tuesday. Leila Lizette Vallejo, 21, of Donna, Texas, allegedly recorded herself counting cash at a stash house in Mission. When federal agents searched the stash house, they found about $903,000 in cash — and videos of Vallejo [...]