In Texas, the legal age of consent for sexual activity is 17, but under the law, teacher-student relationships in which the students were 17 and 18 years old have been criminalized.
In 1944, the US and Mexico signed a treaty regarding the river, and in 1997, the US designated the Rio Grande as one of the American Heritage Rivers. Two portions of the Rio Grande are designated National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, one in northern New Mexico and the other in Texas, at Big Bend National Park.
2004 ANNUAL REPORT. International Boundary and. Water Commission. United States and Mexico. âThe jurisdiction of the Commission shall extend to the. limitrophe parts of the Rio Grande (Rio Bravo) and the. Colorado River, to the land boundary between the two. countries, and to works located upon their common.