Gustavo Alfonso Garcia Olivares died at 24, drowning in the Rio Grande not far from where he was buried Thursday at the Maverick County Cemetery in Eagle Pass.

The cries of a mother watching from Venezuela through a cellphone pierced through the somber Christian music and gusts of wind as her son's casket was lowered into the ground.

Fewer border crossings and President Trump’s hope for a completed border wall by the end of his term were among several topics Vice President JD Vance delved into during his first visit to the Texas-Mexico border on Wednesday afternoon.

Sixty-one workers at the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services Inc. (RAICES) were issued layoff notices last week, according to a Texas Workforce Commission filing.

The new bill reinforces Gov. Greg Abbott’s push for the federal government to repay the $11 billion Texas has paid for the border security operation.

Texas’ border spending exploded after Joe Biden’s election, then state leaders signaled a new willingness to reduce it when Trump won. That didn’t last long.

Eagle Pass residents are split on how they feel about President Donald Trump’s path forward after he revoked an asylum-seeking mobile app on Inauguration Day.

A month after launching an international billboard campaign to deter illegal migrant crossings, Governor Greg Abbott’s office is trying to keep the project’s cost a secret from taxpayers.

KSAT visited Eagle Pass, a city at the epicenter of the immigration debate, for the tenth episode of “Your Voice, South Texas.”

Gov. Greg Abbott announced the new strategy, which will cost an estimated $100,000, during a press conference in Eagle Pass.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced the rollout of an international public relations campaign to try to prevent migrants from crossing the border illegally.

A federal appeals court has ruled that Border Patrol agents cannot cut razor wire that Texas installed on the U.S.-Mexico border in the town of Eagle Pass.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had sued the Biden administration after Border Patrol agents had cut the razor wire.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott will head to the U.S.-Mexico border for the first time since the presidential election.

Additional giant buoys have been installed in the Rio Grande Wednesday morning, according to Gov. Greg Abbott.

Hazel Eileen Diaz received nearly $40,000 in cash and money transfers for letting human smugglers use her rental properties.

Four Tren de Aragua gang members arrested in the multi-agency operation on Saturday have been identified.

Residents say they can no longer access the park after the state seized it against the city’s wishes in January.

Reporters from both organizations spent a day documenting the reality on the border. Here’s a summary of what they found.

The Texas Tribune and The Associated Press visited five locations along the 1,254-mile span to separate the facts from the political narrative during a heated election year.

Abbott signed a proclamation declaring Tren de Aragua a foreign terrorist organization and directed Texas DPS to create strike teams targeting the gang.

An Eagle Pass resident won $1 million in a Texas Lottery scratch ticket game.

The AG’s office sought to depose the leader of Team Brownsville, which provides water, shelter and basic necessities to asylum-seeking migrants.

U.S. arrests for illegally crossing the border from Mexico during July have plummeted to a new low for Joe Biden’s presidency, raising prospects a temporary ban on asylum may be lifted soon.

A floating barrier in the Rio Grande meant to discourage migrants from trying to cross from Mexico into Texas can stay for now, a full federal appeals court has ruled.

Texas has sent thousands of soldiers to the border as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s multibillion-dollar initiative Operation Lone Star. No border town has felt their presence more than Eagle Pass.

The federal government has deployed National Guard to the border for years, but more than a dozen states have dug into their own budgets to send even more personnel

In the Del Rio sector, which covers a 245-mile stretch of the border, Border Patrol agents travel up and down watching for signs of smuggling and illegal crossings.

In December 2023, a field of green grass became a sea of silver thermal blankets.

For dozens of miles, Border Patrol agents travel up and down along the Rio Grande.

In a wide-ranging exclusive sit-down interview with KSAT, Chief Patrol Agent Robert Danley shares insight into his nearly seven months on the job, including how and why migrant crossings have changed, how laws impact the work done by agents, and Border Patrol’s relationship with Texas DPS.

One year after Texas began installing buoys in Eagle Pass, a professor says the floating barrier has created a significant ecological impact on the Rio Grande.

This week on Texas Eats, travel across Texas with David Elder to try out new barbecue bites and sweet treats.

Eagle Pass residents share differing views on President Joe Biden's recent executive order regarding border crossings.

San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg will be among the Texas mayors in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday for President Joe Biden’s announcement about the Texas border.

Gov. Greg Abbott inaugurated the base, which will be able to house at least 1,800 troops when construction is finished.

Gov. Greg Abbott was in Eagle Pass on Friday to welcome Texas National Guard soldiers at Texas’ Forward Operating Base.

Abbott has credited his Operation Lone Star for a recent drop in migrant encounters on the Texas-Mexico border.

We’re tripling our reporting presence on the border during this crucial moment. Help us pay for this expensive work.

David Elder talks with the Executive Director of the Poteet Strawberry Festival to learn more about his role as the 2024 Parade Grand Marshal

In some parts of the state, the skies cleared enough for people to see the total solar eclipse.

David Elder talks with Eagle Pass mayor Rolando Salinas Jr. about BBQ, the upcoming eclipse celebration and the 57 South Music Fest.

Texas has faced skeptical questioning at an appeals court hearing over a new law that would allow it to arrest and deport people who enter the U.S. illegally.

The Supreme Court has extended its block, for now, on a Texas law that would give police broad powers to arrest migrants suspected of illegally entering the U.S. while the legal battle it sparked over immigration authority plays out.

KSAT 12 has brought you to the technological innovations, music and podcast activations, and now we are taking you to the red carpet.

Texas’ plans to arrest migrants who enter the U.S. illegally and order them to leave the country is headed to the Supreme Court in a legal showdown over the federal government’s authority over immigration.

Voters across Maverick County headed to the polls on Tuesday to decide who they will nominate in their respective political party.

Senate Bill 4 would allow Texas police to arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the border.

When the two presidents used the Texas-Mexico boundary as a backdrop for the national immigration fight, residents felt they were left out of the conversation.

Former President Donald Trump will visit Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, a hotspot in the state-federal clash over border security, on Thursday.

A federal judge has blocked a Texas law that would allow police to arrest migrants suspected of entering the U.S. illegally.

The Eagle Pass Border Coalition will hold a press conference on Thursday morning in response to former President and current presidential candidate Donald Trump’s visit there.

Immigration is a driving issue in the almost-certain presidential rematch between the Democratic incumbent and ousted Republican.

Presidential visits to the border are usually short on substance and long on political theater and symbolism, starting with the choice of location.

President Joe Biden will meet with law enforcement in Brownsville on Thursday while former President Donald Trump travels to Eagle Pass.

One San Antonio immigration attorney is giving people an extreme warning of the impact of a new bill set to go into effect.

Six-and-a-half tons of methamphetamine, valued at $117 million, were taken at the Eagle Pass port of entry this past Sunday.

Officials with the Department of Public Safety recovered two unaccompanied migrant children and one juvenile in Eagle Pass on Tuesday.

Texas is expanding its grasp of a border city that has become the focus of a political struggle between the state and federal government.

Gov. Greg Abbott announced Friday that the base will hold up to 2,300 soldiers who have been deployed to the border.

The children, who are from Honduras, were found 10 miles north of Shelby Park in Eagle Pass.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced that Eagle Pass will be home to a new 80-acre base camp for hundreds of personnel in the Texas Military Department in an effort to expand operations at the border.

An Austin judge will decide whether Senate Bill 4 will go into effect on March 5. The new law allows police to arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the border.

A recent decline in arrests for illegal crossings on the U.S. border with Mexico may prove only temporary.

While several Republican governors visited the Texas border to show support for state rights, several Eagle Pass residents are frustrated with the state's impact on their city.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott hosted governors from several states at Shelby Park in Eagle Pass in response to President Joe Biden’s border policies.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott returned to the Eagle Pass border to highlight his escalating attempts to curb illegal crossings on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Several congressional Texas Democrats will host a virtual news conference Sunday morning in response to Republican efforts at the border to obstruct the federal government at Shelby Park in Eagle Pass.

The “Take Our Border Back” convoy came to an end on Saturday with a rally along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The calls for Texas to defend itself and defy the federal government have set fire to a long-simmering fight over states’ rights, emboldening right-wing figures.

Law professors say just about a dozen immigration judges in the city face thousands of cases. And that number is only said to be climbing.

U.S. authorities say arrests for illegal border crossings from Mexico reached an all-time high in December since monthly numbers have been released, exposing a growing vulnerability for President Joe Biden in his campaign for a second term.

December 2023 had the most migrant encounters ever recorded and Sept. 2023 is second-most

The incident occurred south of Shelby Park on Wednesday morning, according to DPS.

The Biden administration is renewing demands for Texas to give Border Patrol access to a riverfront park that is a popular corridor for migrants illegally entering the U.S. A letter sent Tuesday to Texas officials continues a clash between the state and the Biden administration over immigration enforcement.

The high court’s order effectively maintains long-running precedent that the federal government — not individual states — has authority to enforce border security.

A park on the Rio Grande is the new focus of a long battle over border enforcement that’s reached the U.S. Supreme Court.

Officials with the Texas Department of Public Safety recovered the body of an unidentified man in the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass on Saturday.

Texas’ refusal to allow Border Patrol agents into a park along the U.S.-Mexico border is a new marker in the state’s deepening rift with the Biden administration over immigration.

The drowning deaths of three migrants have brought new urgency to an extraordinary showdown between the Biden administration and Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.

Eagle Pass' fire chief said the department had to implement a policy within the past few weeks to treat patients and not transport them unless it’s a “very critical incident" amid migrant surge.

The Justice Department is asking the Supreme Court to order Texas to stop blocking Border Patrol agents from a portion of the U.S.-Mexico border where large numbers of migrants have crossed in recent months.

The Justice Department says agents can’t access 2.5 miles of the border and a boat ramp in Eagle Pass.

The mayor of a Texas border city at the center of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s aggressive measures to curb migrant crossings says state troopers have closed a large public park along the Rio Grande.

The city’s mayor was told the state operation to halt illegal border crossings would last indefinitely.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas visited Eagle Pass on Monday.

As Eagle Pass prepares for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to visit, residents hope for change and relief.

Mexico has increased immigration enforcement in recent weeks.

A family of five migrants was captured by KSAT photojournalist Gavin Nesbitt crossing the Rio Grande Wednesday as U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson and other congressional Republicans held a nearby press conference about immigration.

The Justice Department is suing Texas over a new law that would allow police in the state to arrest migrants who enter the U.S. illegally.

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson has led about 60 fellow Republicans in Congress on a visit to the Mexican border.

A team of KSAT journalists traveled to the border to see what locals were asking from the federal government and to see what kind of impact the recent influx of migrants had on the city.

Business owners in Eagle Pass hope congressional visit will help bring change.

U.S. authorities say a border crossing on the most direct route from Phoenix to the nearest beaches will reopen Thursday, one month after it closed in response to a large migrant influx.

The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow Border Patrol agents to cut razor wire that Texas installed on the U.S.-Mexico border, while a lawsuit over the wire continues.

The Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas will travel to Eagle Pass, Texas on Jan. 8.

The federal government has closed railroad crossings in two Texas border towns, raising concerns about the potential impact on cross-border trade.

Texas has begun flying migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border to Chicago.

Congressman Tony Gonzales said he is asking for federal help in curbing a surge of migrant crossings on the Texas-Mexico border.

A local business owner says closing the bridges is hurting the Eagle Pass economy.