Eagle Pass Port of Entry

On January 11, 2024, the Texas National Guard took control over Shelby Park, a 47-acre (19 ha) area of parkland in the town of Eagle Pass, situated along the Rio Grande river that separates the United States from Mexico, after Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed an emergency declaration to close down the park. In his declaration, Abbott cited the Mexico–United States border crisis and the need to secure the border. The Texas National Guard blocked U.S. Border Patrol agents from patrolling the area, which the Border Patrol had been using to hold migrants in recent weeks.Following the closure, three migrants were found drowned in the Rio Grande. They were subsequently identified by Mexican authorities as a 33-year-old woman and her two children, aged 10 and 8. The U.S. Border Patrol said that they had alerted the Texas National Guard that a group of migrants were in distress in the waters outside the boat ramp in Shelby Park but that the National Guard did not take action to rescue the migrants. Texas lawyers responded that the National Guard was only alerted after the three had drowned, and that the National Guard had not spotted any migrants. Mexican authorities said that the boat never entered U.S. territory.On January 22, the Supreme Court of the United States issued an order to vacate an injunction by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that prevented Border Patrol agents from cutting concertina wire, which the National Guard had been using to make a fence in Shelby Park. The ruling concerned an earlier dispute and did not address Texas deploying razor wire or blocking federal officials from the park. On January 24, Abbott responded by stating that Texas would refuse to let federal authorities access the park, vowing to "protect the sovereignty of our state". A military standoff between state and federal authorities over immigration is unique in modern American history, with constitutional law professor Charles "Rocky" Rhodes and an editorial in the San Antonio Express-News saying it may signal the start of a constitutional crisis.In the aftermath of the Supreme Court's decision, 25 other Republican state governors (all of them with the exception of Vermont governor Phil Scott) announced their support for the Texas government in the dispute, as did U.S. House speaker Mike Johnson. Florida governor Ron DeSantis additionally committed to sending more resources after previously sending the Florida National Guard to reinforce the Texas government. Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt pledged to deploy the Oklahoma National Guard to support Texas. Other state and national Republican officials backed Texas.On January 23, the Department of Homeland Security issued an ultimatum to Texas attorney general Ken Paxton ordering the removal of "obstructions" along the border and to grant Border Patrol full access to Shelby Park by January 26. On January 24, Democratic Texas representatives Joaquin Castro and Greg Casar called for U.S. president Joe Biden to establish federal control over the Texas National Guard.

Fort Duncan was a United States Army base, set up to protect the first U.S. settlement on the Rio Grande near the current town of Eagle Pass, Texas.

The Eagle Pass–Piedras Negras International Bridge is an international bridge that crosses the Rio Grande and connects the United States-Mexico border cities of Eagle Pass, Texas, and Piedras Negras, Coahuila. The bridge is also known as "Eagle Pass Bridge 1" and "Puente Piedras Negras-Eagle Pass". The road continues into Eagle Pass as U.S. Route 57, and into Piedras Negras as Mexican Federal Highway 57.

The Eagle Pass Camino Real Port of Entry (sometimes called "Eagle Pass II") is located on the United States–Mexico border at the Camino Real International Bridge. Built in 1999, it is the location where all commercial vehicles entering Eagle Pass, Texas, from Piedras Negras, Coahuila, are inspected.

The Camino Real International Bridge is an international bridge which crosses the Rio Grande connecting the United States-Mexico border cities of Eagle Pass, Texas, and Piedras Negras, Coahuila. The bridge is also known as "Eagle Pass-Piedras Negras International Bridge II", "Puente Dos", "Puente Camino Real" and "Puente Internacional Coahuila 2000".

The Union Pacific International Railroad Bridge is the only railway international bridge that crosses the U.S.-Mexico border between the cities of Eagle Pass, Texas, and Piedras Negras, Coahuila. The U.S. portion is owned and operated by Union Pacific Railroad, with BNSF Railway having trackage rights. The Mexican portion is owned by the Mexican federal government, with operation concessioned to Ferromex. It is also known as the Eagle Pass-Piedras Negras International Railway Bridge. The bridge is the second busiest international rail crossing between the U.S. and Mexico.

Piedras Negras (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpjeðɾas ˈneɣɾas] ) is a city and seat of the surrounding municipality of the same name in the Mexican state of Coahuila. It stands at the northeastern edge of Coahuila on the Mexico–United States border, across the Rio Grande from Eagle Pass in the U.S. state of Texas. In the 2015 census the city had a population of 163,595 inhabitants, while the metropolitan area had a population of 245,155 inhabitants. The Piedras Negras and the Eagle Pass areas are connected by the Eagle Pass–Piedras Negras International Bridge, Camino Real International Bridge, and the Union Pacific International Railroad Bridge. In Spanish, Piedras Negras translates to 'black stones' – a reference to coal deposits in the area. Across the river, coal was formerly mined on the U.S. side at Dolchburg, near Eagle Pass. This mine closed around 1905, after a fire. Mexico currently operates two large coal-fired power station named "José López Portillo" and "Carbón 2" located 30 miles (48 km) south of Piedras Negras. These two coal-fired power plants are currently operated by Comisión Federal de Electricidad, the state-owned Mexican electric utility.

Eagle Pass is a city in and the county seat of Maverick County in the U.S. state of Texas. Its population was 28,130 as of the 2020 census.Eagle Pass borders the city of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, which is to the southwest and across the Rio Grande. The Eagle Pass-Piedras Negras metropolitan area (EP-PN) is one of six binational metropolitan areas along the United States-Mexican border. According to the 2020 Census, the Eagle Pass Micropolitan Area population was 57,887 people, and the Piedras Negras Metropolitan Area population was 209,456 inhabitants.

Eagle Pass Municipal Airport is a former airport, located in Eagle Pass, Texas. Airport operations ended around 1998, being transferred to the Maverick County Memorial International Airport. Today the former airport is a commercial site.

KINL is a radio station based in Eagle Pass, Texas. The station broadcasts at 92.7 MHz with an ERP of 20,000 watts.

KVAW (channel 24) is a television station in Eagle Pass, Texas, United States, which is currently silent. Founded June 29, 1989, the station is owned by the NRT Communications Group, the American arm of Núcleo Radio y Televisión, which owns media assets in the Mexican state of Coahuila. KVAW formerly carried programming from Telemundo, HTVN as an owned-and-operated station, and later from Mas Musica, the predecessor of the station's latest network, Tr3́s, and Multimedios Televisión.

See Elm Creek (Nueces River tributary) for the tributary of the Nueces River, in Maverick County, Texas. Elm Creek, is one of two streams of that name in Kinney County and Maverick County, Texas. Elm Creek joins the Rio Grande about 4 miles downstream from Elm Creek, Texas, and 1.1 miles up river from Eagle Pass, Texas. Its source is just north of the Kinney County line, south of Spofford, Texas.