Immigrants wait for hearings in "tent courts"

There are 66 mini courtrooms in Brownsville that are connected to judges across the country via video conferencing

• Sep 16, 2019

1 killed, 11 wounded in shooting at Brooklyn playground

"We all thought it was firecrackers because, you know, you felt so safe with police presence here. Who's going to think this is gunfire at an event like this?"

• Jul 28, 2019

Videos show NYC cops doused with water, hit with buckets

NYPD Chief Monahan called the incidents "reprehensible," and said his officers deserve respect

• Jul 24, 2019

Migrant families wait in Mexico hoping for asylum

Just across the bridge from Brownsville, Texas, some people are sleeping on the sidewalk, worried they'll lose their place in line

• Jul 18, 2019

8 Texas women form group to help migrants

"We have a crisis at the border but it's not the one that our president is talking about," said one of the angry tias

• Jun 7, 2019

3-year-old boy with name and numbers on his shoes found in Texas cornfield

The boy was alone and crying, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection

• Apr 24, 2019

Walmart "disturbed" its former store is holding immigrant children

Retail giant said it didn't know the store would be used to house migrant children separated from their parents

• Jun 20, 2018

Inside the Texas facility housing immigrant children

For the first time, the government has released video of inside a Brownsville, Texas facility sheltering children who entered the U.S. illegally. Some are kids who were separated from their families as part of a "zero tolerance" policy under the Trump administration. CBS News transportation correspondent Kris Van Cleave reports.

• Jun 14, 2018

Inside the former Walmart holding 1,500 immigrant children in Texas

The facility, which used to be a former Walmart, is nearly filled to capacity

• Jun 14, 2018

Merkley says images of migrant processing center are "seared" in his mind

The migrant children, he said, undergo their initial screening and sorting in a "dog-kennel style" setting

• Jun 6, 2018

Senator denied entry into migrant detention facility, claims he saw kids caged in another

Jeff Merkley live-streamed the incident outside a Texas detention facility

• Jun 4, 2018

Report: Woman finds her family, including baby, shot dead

Police in New York's Brooklyn borough say they are trying to determine whether the deaths are a murder-suicide

• Mar 14, 2018

7/17: CBS Evening News

Search continues for missing man after flash flood kills 9; Biggest challenge for some teams at robotics competition was getting to U.S.

• Jul 17, 2017

H-2B visa expansion

The Department of Homeland Security announced Monday it is raising the number of H-2B visas this year from 66,000 to 81,000. These are temporary visas for foreigners to come to the U.S. to do seasonal, non-agricultural work. Mark Strassmann spoke to people about the expansion.

• Jul 17, 2017