Texas health officials on Tuesday announced the first death of a U.S. resident with swine flu, and said she was a 33-year-old schoolteacher who had recently given birth to a healthy baby. ...more

May 6, 2009

The hottest thing on the griddle at the Las Palmas restaurant these days isn't the food. It's the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe that a cook says she saw in the griddle. ...more

May 1, 2009

The Obama administration plans to spend more than $400 million to upgrade ports of entry and surveillance technologies to help thwart drugs and arms smuggling along the U.S-Mexico border. ...more

April 1, 2009

I am a border rat. I've been one since the day I hopped back and forth between countries over a fallen, rusty barbed-wire fence in the woodland along the Arizona-Mexico line some 40 years ago. Since that act of joyful anarchy, I've traveled the entire length of the frontier numerous times, dined and slept in just about every border town on both sides and chatted with folks of high and low life throughout. ...more

February 21, 2009

President Bush granted prison releases to two former U.S. Border Patrol agents whose convictions for shooting a Mexican drug dealer fueled the national debate over illegal immigration. ...more

January 19, 2009

The Border Patrol has finished installing razor-sharp barbed wire atop a 5-mile stretch of fence on the Mexican border, an addition critics call heavy-handed and an eyesore. ...more

November 20, 2008

Robert Lindsey was not surprised by new data last week that showed new home sales have fallen more than 40 percent from their peak almost three years ago. He can tell from his company's bank account. ...more

June 3, 2008

Heavy rains still threatened to cause dangerous flooding and mudslides in Mexico, Belize and Guatemala. ...more

June 2, 2008

It's barely sunrise. The shadows under the passengers' eyelids show it. ...more

May 4, 2008

Steve Phillips of Holiday wants businesses targeted for hiring illegal aliens. ...more

February 16, 2008