Historically, Border Patrol’s El Paso sector — which includes New Mexico’s border with Mexico and El Paso and Hudspeth counties in west Texas — has had among the fewest migrant deaths across the southern border.

At least 4 Muslims attended the Texas GOP convention this weekend - not as protesters but as delegates and attendees, hoping to participate in setting the party's priorities. They were ostracized and rejected. One man left in tears. via @RenzoDowney texastribune.org/2026/06/15/…

Mohamed Hussein is a conservative Texan who voted in the Republican primary. The GOP convention may have pushed him to the other side. “I was hopeful that I’d come here and get a clarification. What we got was kind of a confirmation,” he said after being told to leave the US.

“'I’m willing to die to protect my land,' Peña said, sitting in a metal chair under a carport that overlooks the lush green farm that stretches to the river. 'What’s the point of putting all this money into the farm if the government is just going to take it away from us?' the younger Peña said as he drove on a utility vehicle through a muddy access road with his white Great Pyrenees dog riding next to him." These rural Texas landowners stand to lose everything as the border wall comes for the Big Bend region. Heart wrenching reporting from @ujohnnyg & photos from @PaulRatje in the Texas Tribune.

Mohamed Hussein went to the Texas Republican convention to convince himself he had a place in the GOP. He left in tears. What he found was a party that didn’t want him, that told him to leave the country. via @RenzoDowney @TexasTribune: texastribune.org/2026/06/15/…

Whether or not a wall goes up in Big Bend National Park or the state park, there are hundreds of families whose land and legacies are at stake in the region. Read @ujohnnyg on the families who live along the Rio Grande in the Big Bend. @TexasTribune texastribune.org/2026/06/15/…

BADASS story from @ujohnnyg on Big Bend locals in the path of the wall. While state and national media has mostly focused on the parks, don’t lose sight of the private landowners who will lose homes, businesses, family cemeteries … texastribune.org/2026/06/15/…

“It’s just something that’s been happening for generations, people coming in and trying to take land and families fighting to keep it. But I think this generation is more vocal and able to fight back." texastribune.org/2026/06/15/…

Great story from @ujohnnyg about some of the Big Bend area locals - people with generational ties to the region - living in the direct path of the Trump administration's planned border wall: texastribune.org/2026/06/15/…

In far West Texas, the threat of land seizures for a border wall has families on edge -- @ujohnnyg @TexasTribune texastribune.org/2026/06/15/…

When Trump pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández, prison officials had the former Honduran president's ICE hold lifted and he was driven to a posh New York hotel. That “can never be allowed to happen ever again,” said Rep. Norma Torres. propublica.org/article/trump…

DHS has scaled back plans for a Socorro warehouse facility in Socorro, U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar said. The site will include immigration detention, but will also serve as an ICE training and office campus rather than an 8,500-bed detention center. elpasomatters.org/2026/06/12…

A co-founder of the global lifestyle and outdoor brand YETI is one of the owners of a sprawling West Texas ranch that has in recent weeks been involved in construction activities related to the Trump administration's planned border. From @MarfaRadio: kut.org/news/2026-06-11/yeti…

HOUSTON — Elephant joins Texas GOP convention, and pees right between the press area and delegates, after Gov. Greg Abbott’s speech.

A proposal to bar the Trump administration from building a border wall in Big Bend, which is rarely traversed by migrants, died Wednesday in the U.S. House Appropriations Committee, after the GOP-controlled panel rejected the idea along party lines. bit.ly/4w0ANIn

Social Security’s trust fund is now due to run low on money beginning in 2032. The government acknowledged that the Trump administration’s immigration policies and tax cuts are expected to contribute to the insolvency. wapo.st/4gbvnoV

BREAKING: DHS just waived all environmental laws to blast border barriers and roads through Big Bend National Park. This marks the first time in American history the feds have gutted dozens of laws to push industrial-level construction through a national park.

My first story for Court Watch: Immigration court filings are incredibly important right now, but they’re impossible to access online under an obscure court privacy rule. One man — and 400 volunteers — are trying to change that: courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit…

Two LAPD officers who are DACA recipients were placed on unpaid leave after federal processing delays caused their work authorization to lapse. foxla.com/news/daca-renewal-…

The Department of Homeland Security has awarded more than $16.3 billion in contracts in the past six months — compared with $2.1 billion from 2016 to 2024. Most of it has gone to two firms that have ties to the White House and the Republican Party. wapo.st/4o97OPD

Breaking news: The Trump administration had plans to classify 2.7 million living people — including some U.S. citizens and lawful residents — as dead as part of its immigration enforcement efforts, according to a former senior Social Security executive. wapo.st/4fyguwV