How Texas is failing foster kids and contributing to an alarming teen pregnancy rate

Border agents are expanding their reach into the country’s interior.

How South Texas became one of the most heavily policed and surveilled places in the nation.

An analysis finds that DPS’ spy planes are flying over Texas communities, with little oversight.

Texas’ environmental agency targets small business owners, while corporate polluters are let off easy.

How to run drugs, smuggle migrants, and get away with it at America’s biggest law enforcement agency.

A Texas Rangers inquiry found “no evidence” of wrongdoing in the botched handling of migrant remains in Brooks County. New evidence indicates rampant violations of the law.

As Texas border security intensified, two brothers paid a smuggler to bring them to the United States. Only one lived to tell their story.

A south Texas sheriff’s department with dwindling resources struggles to cope with a growing immigration crisis.

A Guatemalan diplomat struggles to save her countrymen in south Texas and nearly loses herself.

With migrants streaming through south Texas, landowners are caught between protecting their property and saving lives.

To comply with US immigration law, Exelina Hernandez would have to risk her life.

To see how the Koch brothers’ free-market industry utopia operates, look no further than Corpus Christi, Texas, where the billionaires own two oil refineries.

Who’s killing the people of the Juarez Valley? Hint: It’s not just the drug cartels.

US immigration officials deport tens of thousands of unaccompanied children to Mexico each year, many of whom grew up in the United States. What, exactly, becomes of them?

Despite a U.S. Supreme Court ban, Texas has continued to send mentally retarded criminals to death row. Will a Mexican immigrant’s case correct this injustice?

Bobby Wayne Woods has an IQ of 70, but he’s about to be put to death by the State of Texas, despite a 2002 Supreme Court ban on such executions.

As Medicaid payments to nursing homes stagnate, regulation is weakened, and a Texas law capping damages for pain and suffering in all medical malpractice suits is enacted, the death of Noe Martinez Sr. reveals a coming crisis in the nursing home industry.