Biden, Trump visit southern border cities, highlighting immigration as key election issue
Biden made a rare visit to the southern border Thursday on the same day that Trump is made his own visit. Here's what to know.
Biden traveling to border Thursday
The president is heading to Brownsville, Texas, a city that sees high numbers of migrants crossing the border.
Biden weighs new executive action to limit asylum at the border
The Biden administration is looking into options to manage illegal border crossings President Joe Biden could use without congressional approval after Republicans blocked a bipartisan border bill.
Mayorkas impeachment: Here are the House Republicans managing his trial
Reps Clay Higgins, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Andy Biggs are among the 11 House Republicans managing Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ impeachment trial.
Senators release long-awaited border security deal, pair with Israel and Ukraine aid
The bill would alter the asylum system at the border with faster and tougher enforcement and provide substantial military aid to Israel and Ukraine.
Mexico's increase in immigration enforcement results in drop in illegal border crossings into US
Mexico has increased immigration enforcement in recent weeks. U.S. officials say that has contributed to a sharp drop in illegal border crossings.
Federal judge poised to bar separating migrant families at US border for 8 years
A federal judge is poised to prohibit separation of families at the border for purposes of deterring immigration for eight years.
Alabama Gov. Ivey sending 275 National Guard troops to Mexico border: ‘Every state has become a border state'
Ivey is the latest Republican governor to send National Guard soldiers to the U.S.-Mexico border amid pleas from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
10,000 migrants a day head to US border, Mexico's president says
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says the surge of migrants reaching Mexico’s northern border with the United States is partly due to about 6,000 migrants per day crossing into Mexico from Guatemala over the past week.
Barrels of drinking water for migrants walking through Texas have disappeared
Barrels of life-saving water that a human rights group strategically placed for wayward migrants traveling on foot have vanished.
Honduran migrant throws 1-year-old girl in the Rio Grande, authorities say
A Honduran migrant tossed his young daughter into the Rio Grande while trying to illegally cross the southern border from Mexico into Texas, authorities said.
Militia members wanted to ‘start a war’ at the border, murder migrants and Border Patrol agents: Prosecutors
The pair planned to murder any Border Patrol agents who attempted to stop them.
Border appears calm after lifting of pandemic-related asylum bans
After Title 42 rules were lifted, migrants and officials were still evaluating the change and the new policy adopted by the Biden administration to stabilize the border.
Migrants rush across Mexico border into US in final hours before Title 42 expires
Migrants are rushing across the Mexico border in hopes of entering the U.S. in the final hours before pandemic-related asylum restrictions are lifted.
Co-founder of fundraising group promising to help Trump construct border wall sentenced to 4 years in prison
Brian Kolfage was sentenced Wednesday for defrauding donors to the We Build the Wall effort.
Border Patrol seizes $900K in meth disguised as candy, food
More than 100 pounds of methamphetamines were seized at the U.S.-Mexico border after authorities found the drugs disguised as candy and hidden in canned food.
Video shows abandoned migrant child drifting on Rio Grande; National Guard troop runs to rescue
In the video, a Texas National Guard soldier rushes to help a child alone on a floatation device in Eagle Pass, Texas.
Migrants found 'suffocating' in Texas train; 2 dead: police
Officials suggested the deaths and injuries were linked to human trafficking.
New rule would impose 'severe limitations' on asylum-seekers at US southern border
President Donald Trump pursued a similar ban in 2019 but a federal appeals court prevented it from taking effect.
Feds reunite nearly 700 migrant kids separated from their families at US-Mexico border
President Joe Biden issued an executive order on his first day in office to reunite families separated under his predecessor's policy of forcibly separating parents and children at the U.S.-Mexico border to discourage illegal immigration.