A US rail workers union says allowing Mexican crews to bring trains miles into South Texas is a threat to border security and American jobs.

A project honoring Silvia Hector Webber, known as the "Harriet Tubman of the Underground Railroad to Mexico" in Texas, is using a $150,000 grant to create an interactive mapping project and ...

“The Tex Mex Underground Railroad,” on display at the Carver Center in San Antonio. (Kaylee Greenlee Beal for the Texas Observer) During the Mexican Cultural Revolution of the early 20th ...

Mexican drug ... operate more like “underground cities” than mere holes in the ground, outfitted with amenities like office space, air ducts, weapons caches and railway tracks, Brown said.

While West Texas is certainly a region ... for the smuggling of arms during the Mexican revolution." Across the High Plains there are several areas of underground tunnels, including those beneath ...

Mission San José has been added to the National Park Service’s National Underground ... Mexican Army protected the five men by opening fire on the slave catchers pursing them.” Another Texas ...

A historic South Texas church and cemetery have been named a national site that was part of the Underground Railroad that helped slaves seek freedom in Mexico in the 1800s. The National Park ...

Languages: English. The push for high-speed rail connecting Texas and Mexico took a step forward this week, as officials from both sides of the border met to discuss the project's future.

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ALAMO, Texas — Along the winding Rio Grande in South Texas lies a history many have never heard, of a southern route to freedom for enslaved people on the Underground Railroad into Mexico.

Last week, they rode Amtrak's Texas Eagle alongside city, state and Mexican officials to promote the creation of a rail line connecting Austin, San Antonio and Laredo to Monterrey, Mexico.