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Southwest Texas Junior College (SWTJC) is a public community college with four campuses serving 11 counties in southwest Texas: unincorporated Uvalde County (next to Uvalde and on the site of Garner Field), [2] Del Rio (northwest portion), next to Del Rio International Airport, [3] unincorporated Maverick County (near Eagle Pass), [4] and Crystal City, the seat of Zavala County.
Construction has begun on Texas' military base camp in Eagle Pass, near the Texas-Mexico border, which is expected to house about 1,800 Texas National Guard troops as part of the state's border ...
Eagle Pass is a city in and the county seat of Maverick County, Texas, United States. Its population was 28,130 as of the 2020 census . [ 4 ] Eagle Pass borders the city of Piedras Negras, Coahuila , Mexico , which is to the southwest and across the Rio Grande river.
Branch campuses, branded as Rio Grande College, are located in Del Rio, Uvalde, Eagle Pass, and Castroville. [11] Named for former Texas governor and Confederate general Lawrence Sullivan Ross, the institution was founded in 1917 as Sul Ross Normal College and was made a university in 1969.
Salinas estimated 15,000 migrants have crossed into the U.S. through Eagle Pass since he signed a declaration of local disaster to address a surge of migrants on Sept. 19, the Eagle Pass Business ...
Radney Foster (born 1959), country music singer/songwriter; his first album, Del Rio, TX 1959, was released in 1992. Bob Gruber (born 1958), retired offensive tackle in the NFL and USFL; Todd Hays (born 1969), bobsledder who won the silver medal in the four-man event at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah
Its county seat is Eagle Pass. [3] The county was created in 1856 and organized in 1871. [4] It is named for Samuel Maverick, cattleman and state legislator. The Eagle Pass, TX Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Maverick County. It is east of the Mexican border.
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.