Texas authorities are fighting to keep control of Fronton Island, a body of land surrounded by the Rio Grande that they said was openly used by cartels until last year. According to NewsNation ...

Fronton Island is the disputed territory that sits within the Rio Grande River at the southern border. Both Texas and Mexico have made conflicting claims regarding the islands' ownership.

The area has an uninhabited island in the middle of the Rio Grande called Fronton Island that has been the scene for drug- and human smuggling, Border Patrol officials have told Border Report.

RIO GRANDE VALLEY, Texas (Border Report ... according to Border Patrol. One nearby island, Fronton Island, has even been bulldozed and turned into a peninsula by Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation ...