The body of a small child was recovered from the Rio Grande by Border Patrol agents Thursday, while his brother, who was also swept away by river currents, remains missing, authorities said.

Ezra had issued a preliminary injunction directing Texas officials to remove the floating border barriers from the middle of the Rio Grande by Sept. 15, at the state's own expense.

New video appears to show a migrant child drifting down the Rio Grande alone on a flotation device. (Heavenly Farms, Eagle Pass) There were 400,000 recorded migrant encounters in FY 2020.

The Rio Grande Compact—signed in 1938 between Colorado, New Mexico and Texas—sealed the river’s fate. The compact ensured that farmers in all three states would get their share of water.

Texas has been granted a temporary stay, a day after a federal judge ordered the state to move the barriers it placed in the Rio Grande to its side of the river.

Buoys made of hard plastic and tethered to the bottom of the Rio Grande create a barrier along the center of the river in Eagle Pass, Texas, Aug 1, 2023.

Mexico recovers 2 bodies from the Rio Grande, including 1 found near floating barrier that Texas installed Updated on: August 3, 2023 / 7:30 PM EDT / CBS/AP ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – For the second time in 40 years, the stretch of the Rio Grande in Albuquerque has gone dry, the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District confirmed. If you take a look … ...

Workers in Texas have begun installing a floating barrier along the Rio Grande in an effort to deter migrants from crossing the dangerous river to enter the US illegally. “The buoys have arrived ...

The last time NMED monitored water quality in the Rio Grande through Albuquerque was in 2014-2015. “We don’t have the resources or staff to monitor every watershed on an annual basis.