US-Mexico Border

After reviewing surveillance footage from May 15, the US Customs and Border Protection said the young boy was dropped by someone who was entering the country illegally, and several others were seen crossing over into the U.S.

Mexico is flying migrants south away from the U.S. border and busing new arrivals away from its boundary with Guatemala to keep migrants from massing in its border cities.

The girl died Wednesday on what her mother said was the family’s ninth day in Border Patrol custody. People are to be held no more than 72 hours under agency policy.

Hail of gunfire struck border fence near where San Diego Fire-Rescue was treating a boy injured after being dropped over fence..

A full day after the rules known as Title 42 were lifted, migrants and government officials on Friday were still assessing the effects of a switch to new regulations adopted by President Joe Biden’s administration

Governor Greg Abbott, Congressman Ted Cruz, and Representative Colin Allred weigh in on the migrant presence at the border after Title 42 expired on Thursday.

The COVID-era immigration policy expired on Thursday, and migrants are lining up at the border as they wait for processing.

Local churches and organizations are getting ready for an influx of migrants after Title 42 expired on Thursday.

n border towns like Tijuana, Mexico, migrants could be seen out in the open, covering their bodies with blankets and sleeping in makeshift tents, while waiting for their asylum hearings

Migrants rushed across the Mexico border Thursday in hopes of entering the U.S. in the final hours before pandemic-related asylum restrictions are lifted — a change that many feared could make it more difficult for them to stay.

But in February, the Biden administration announced that migrants seeking asylum would now be required to use the app to book an appointment with an immigration officer before they can make an asylum claim.

The Biden administration is reportedly set to release migrants on “parole” with a notice to report to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office but without enrolling them in the Alternatives to Detention program that requires a given court date.

The restrictions have been in place since 2020, and allowed U.S. officials to quickly return migrants over the border.

The Biden administration will send 1,500 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border amid an expected migrant surge following the end of coronavirus pandemic-era restrictions. The White House says the troops will be sent to focus on administrative tasks so that U.S. Customs and Border Protection can work in the field. The troops will not do law enforcement work. President Joe Biden’s...

The decision to use fast-track screenings comes as COVID-19 asylum restrictions are set to expire on May 11 and the U.S. government prepares for an expected increase in immigrants trying to cross the border with Mexico.

A video posted on Twitter shows a man driving a pickup truck with 12 migrants inside before losing control on a dirt road and rolling over just north of the U.S.-Mexico Border.

Two guards who fled a fire that killed 40 migrants in a locked Mexican detention center did not have keys to the cell door, Mexico’s president said Tuesday.

Mexican officials appeared to place blame for the deaths in the fire late Monday largely on private, subcontracted security guards at the detention center in Ciudad Juarez.

Here are some questions and answers about the conditions and policies that led to one of Mexico’s deadliest events at an immigration detention center.

Video shows guards walking away from where a fire started during a blaze that killed at least 39 asylum-seekers at a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juarez. Mekahlo Medina reports March 28, 2023.