EAGLE PASS, Texas — More than a year after Texas soldiers fenced off and locked out Border Patrol agents from accessing the United States-Mexico border as thousands of illegal immigrants surged across, state authorities have unchained the gate and reopened the door to their federal partners, the Washington Examiner has learned.

The cries of a mother watching from Venezuela through a cellphone pierced through the somber Christian music and gusts of wind as her son's casket was lowered into the ground.

Officials in Texas discuss strategies to enhance border security, critiquing previous administration's policies.

The vice president, joined by two other top Trump administration officials, took an aerial tour of the border and met with law enforcement officials.