The U.S. State Department recently issued its highest-level security alert for several cities in Mexico just across the Texas border. They warn of an increase in violent crime, kidnapping, and improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

The U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Mexico have issued a travel warning for certain parts of the Texas-Mexico border due to reports of violence and kidnapping, officials said in a news release. The level four security alert includes Reynosa,

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Sheinbaum has so far staved off Trump’s tariff threats by ramping up migrant detentions within Mexico and cracking down on fentanyl production and trafficking. In turn, Trump, 78, recently praised Sheinbaum and Mexico in his teleconferenced speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

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The U.S. government is asking people to avoid traveling to certain areas of the Texas-Mexico border due to security concerns.

Immigration checkpoints are operated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers and function as secondary inspection points to verify the legal status

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott deployed the troops to the Rio Grande Valley, where he said they'll work side-by-side with U.S. Border Patrol agents to keep migrants from illegally entering the country. Some of those troops left from the U.S. Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Fort Worth Monday morning. The others left from a base in Houston.

Whether tariffs or mass deportations, no country has more to lose than Mexico under the Trump administration. Some 80% of the country’s exports go to its northern neighbor. Nearly four million of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States are Mexicans.

Across the state, immigrants are changing their daily habits as the Trump administration orders at least 1,200 daily arrests of undocumented people.

The U.S. State Department recently issued its highest-level security alert for several cities in Mexico just across the Texas border. They warn of an increase in violent crime, kidnapping, and improvised explosive devices (IEDs).