Rumor sends hundreds of migrants rushing for U.S. border at El Paso
"They threw tear gas at us," said one of the Venezuelans frustrated by a new U.S. government app meant to handle asylum applications.
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"They threw tear gas at us," said one of the Venezuelans frustrated by a new U.S. government app meant to handle asylum applications.
Despite safety concerns, travel agents are seeing a spike in Spring Break travel to Mexico.
Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe says so far in 2023, they are on pace to break previous human smuggling records.
GOP lawmakers have incorrectly blamed the spike in fentanyl overdoses on migrants, whom they blame for bringing the drugs across the border.
New York Mayor Eric Adams says cities where immigrants are flowing to need help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
New York has offered roughly 40,000 migrants shelter, food and other services since last year in an effort city officials project will cost over $1 billion.
Arizona Sen. Krysten Sinema, an Independent, and Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn led the eight-member delegation to Yuma, one day after they made a similar visit to El Paso, Texas.
The visit is his first to the U.S.-Mexico border as president.
Customs and Border Protection said its Office of Professional Responsibility was "reviewing the incident."
After more than a year of complaints and calls for action especially from Texas leaders, President Biden announces plans to make the U.S. border with Mexico more secure.
President Joe Biden said Wednesday he intends to visit the U.S.-Mexico border — his first since taking office — in connection with his meeting next week in Mexico City with the leaders of Mexico and Canada.
President Joe Biden said Wednesday he intends to visit the U.S.-Mexico border — his first since taking office.
For nearly three years, the Title 42 public health law has allowed the U.S. to quickly expel hundreds of thousands of migrants to Mexico.
After fleeing violence in their Guatemalan town, a family of 15 joined an Advent candlelight ceremony just south of the border.
Dozens of migrants have been spending their nights on the concrete banks of the Rio Grande, awaiting a Supreme Court ruling in the cold.
Nicolas Palazzo, an attorney with Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center in El Paso, Texas, said he worries scammers will charge migrants to sign them up and that CBP's limited processing capacity will result in intolerable waits.
El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser issued the state of emergency declaration to allow the city on the U.S. border with Mexico to tap into additional resources.
Title 42, a public health law first invoked by the Trump administration, allows U.S. border officials to expel migrants without allowing them to request asylum.
Cocaine concealed in candy wrappers was one of four recent busts by U.S. border patrol agents in two days, resulting in four arrests.
The immediate implications of the order were not clear, as any U.S. effort to return migrants to Mexico under a formal policy has to be greenlit by the Mexican government.
The City of El Paso announced Wednesday it received a new $6 million commitment to underwrite its migrant response from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
United States Border Patrol agent Raul Humberto Gonzalez, Jr. was killed in an ATV crash while chasing a group of illegal immigrants crossing the border near Mission.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested Isaul Salinas, 51, who had an outstanding felony warrant for a sexual offense- fondling of a child.
$8.3M in methamphetamine seized at Laredo Port of EntryU.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at a Laredo port of entry seized $8.3 million of methamphetamine.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested a man who was wanted for sexual assault in Dallas.
