The U.S. government is asking people to avoid traveling to certain areas of the Texas-Mexico border due to security concerns.

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U.S. officials have put several Mexican border towns near Texas under the highest-level travel advisory amid gun battles, kidnappings and IEDs in the area.

According to reports, there were no injuries in the incident near Fronton Island, an uninhabited island in Starr County, Texas.

The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) confirmed that border agents were fired upon from the Mexican side of the border. On Monday, Texas DPS Lieutenant Olivarez confirmed that shots were fired from inside Mexico toward a group of Border Patrol agents on Fronton Island.

The warning was issued because of "increasingly frequent gun battles" and the discovery of "improvised explosive devices (IEDs)."

Local leaders in Texas and New Mexico are voicing their concerns over President Donald Trump's decision to temporarily freeze federal grants and loans.

The new Texas National Guard and military troops sent recently to the Rio Grande Valley will assist Border Patrol agents on the border of South Texas. They were holding training exercises Tuesday

The state has vowed to assist the president in his efforts to revamp immigration. But the state’s biggest cities and school districts are more reluctant to help.

Google says it will take its cue from the U.S. government if it has to change the names of the Gulf of Mexico and Denali on its Maps service.

President Trump declared an emergency at the southern border, and as a result, there have already been many changes to policy. At the Texas Capitol, a fight is brewing between Democrats and most Republicans after lawmakers proposed spending $1 billion on a school choice program that would give taxpayer money to students so they can attend public school.