In Curry States, an Hidalgo County colonia, the water turned into a playground for kids who brought out an inflatable and pulled each other. Meanwhile, a day after the heavy rains, residents like Emma Alaniz waited for the water to recede or someone to help pump it out.

Today I spoke with a man who had knee-depth water in his rented Palm Valley home. Despite the hardship of losing valuables, him and his wife worried most about their pets, including an Axolotl which needs a precise water temperature.

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“Every pair of shoes is someone’s story,” Amerika Garcia-Grewal of the Border Vigil, Frontera Federation said Tuesday morning.

The shoes of migrant women and children were placed in a spiral by the Eagle Pass welcome sign, near the border park that VP JD Vance visited today.

In the RGV, the busiest part of the border as of December, the number of daily arrests went down, too. BP RGV Chief Gloria I. Chavez said it’s down to about 50 a day, or less.

New: BP Chief Michael Banks told us the current daily average is about 350 apprehensions per day along the whole southern border. It was about 500 a day last month.

Numbers have been falling since 2024 with about 1,500 arrests per day in December. Now, we’re in the hundreds.

The privately built border wall in Hidalgo County appeared maintained and patrolled during Thursday’s Border Patrol ride along with the AP.

It had been a few years since I last saw it up close.

This horse almost made up for the three hours in queue at the Reynosa international bridge, almost.