Starr County, Texas, voted predominantly Republican this month -- for the first time in 100 years. Home to some 75,000 residents across about 1,200 square miles, it has a relatively small ...

Migrant encounters at the Texas-Mexico border have declined for months. Even so, one county along the border just declared a disaster.

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AS STARR COUNTY GOES — If you’re not yet familiar with Starr County, Texas — and we don’t expect you would be — remember the name. Since President Donald Trump’s November victory ...

He was all for it. “It’s hard,” Gonzalez said, but “we need it.” At the Starr County Fair in Texas, Republicans, right-leaning independents and Trump converts were mostly indifferent to ...

I visited the Texas border to find out why. Editor's note: This story was first published on October 6. On Election Day, Donald Trump won Starr County with more than 57% of the vote. It's the ...

After declining to do so for years, Starr County commissioners signed the disaster declaration to qualify for additional state money through Texas' Operation Lone Star, according to Starr County ...

Despite declining migrant encounters, Starr County, Texas, declared a disaster to access state funding through Operation Lone Star. The county previously opted out of disaster declarations as they ...