As in Matamoros and other border cities in the surrounding Tamaulipas ... Migrants line up to receive food and water distributed by a Mexican minister at Plaza Las Americas migrant camp in Reynosa.

About 2,000 to 3,000 migrants currently live at the downtown plaza in the crime-ridden city of Reynosa, in the state of Tamaulipas, just south of the border from McAllen, Texas.

The U.S. Consulate in the border city of Matamoros, Mexico, temporarily closed its Consular Agency in the nearby city of Reynosa because of heightened drug-related violence in recent days.

Item 1 of 3 Military personnel arrive to the Reynosa International Airport following an attack by gunmen to the Tamaulipas state's interior minister Hector Villegas in the early hours of Monday ...