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.
Mayorkas impeachment: House GOP votes to oust DHS secretary
House Republicans have voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
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.
US border policy deal closer than it seems. How it's shaping up and what's on the line
The main areas of discussion in the deal involve toughening asylum rules for migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, bolstering border enforcement, and deterring migrants from making the journey in the first place.
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.
Texas border agents find spider monkeys in backpack
The animals were found inside the luggage with air holes punched through it.
Images show men armed with rifles, body armor coming across southern border
The incident took place in Texas, but the men were not located.
Pentagon pulling 1,100 troops from U.S.-Mexico border mission
The Pentagon is pulling 1,100 active duty troops from the U.S.-Mexico border it deployed earlier this year as the government prepared for the end of asylum restrictions linked to the pandemic.
Justice Department tells Texas that floating barrier on Rio Grande raises humanitarian concerns
The Justice Department has told Texas that a floating barrier of wrecking ball-sized buoys the state put on the Rio Grande violates federal law and raises humanitarian concerns for migrants crossing into the U.S. from Mexico.
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.
Caravan of nearly 1,000 migrants in Southern Mexico walk toward US
Nearly 1,000 migrants from South America formed a group to head north together in hopes of reaching the U.S.
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.
DeSantis defends flying migrants to California as he meets with sheriffs near border
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday defended his state’s decision to fly migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border to California, arguing that the state had essentially invited the migrants with its welcoming policies toward immigrants.