HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of migrants continue to cross illegally into El Paso, Texas to surrender to agents at the border wall. The Border Patrol has issued a warning to migrants that they risk swift removal if they come in between ports of entry.
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The hotline was allegedly ended after it was featured on "Orange Is the New Black," which drew attention to the criticism of detention conditions for immigrants.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sent multiple busloads of migrants to Vice President Harris’s D.C. residence, leaving migrants on the streets in below-freezing temperatures on Christmas Eve.
WATCH: Three white buses with no insignia or logos pulled up along 30th Street across from the Iris Avenue Trolley Station in South San Diego, and within minutes, hundreds of men and women started to unload.
Border officers seized a bunch of bologna at an El Paso port entry this week. Why it's prohibited and what ended up happening to all those cold cuts below.
Multiple El Paso law enforcement agencies have responded to the Paso Del Norte Bridge to assist U.S. Customs and Border Protection after a group of people forced their way to the top of the bridge and are blocking traffic.
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About 200 migrants, mostly from Venezuela and recently expelled from the United States, rioted at a Tijuana detention facility that also serves as a shelter.
Twenty-six Republican governors, led by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, have announced the creation of the American Governors’ Border Strike Force.
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Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, says he will continue busing migrants to “sanctuary cities” around the nation, and he appears to have the support of Texas voters and border agents.
Juarez is in the middle of a fierce drug war, as cartels not only are fighting for control of smuggling routes to the U.S. but also in-house drug sales and other criminal activities.
Republican Tony Gonzales' district has the nation's longest stretch of U.S.-Mexico border and includes parts of El Paso, but he was noticeably absent when President Biden stepped off Air Force One in the Sun City to be briefed on the migrant crisis.
Two vehicles that attempted to speed past a California border crossing before an officer opened fire were carrying a total of 18 Russian immigrants, including several young children.
Former Congressman Beto O’Rourke is touring the South Texas border in his first visit to the region since announcing his bid to take on Gov. Greg Abbott.
The state of Texas alleges the Biden administration is breaking federal laws by allowing migrants who accept public assistance to reside in the country and to apply for green cards and U.S. citizenship.
HAPPENING NOW: Dozens of migrants have entered the U.S. illegally and are amassing along the border wall in San Diego, but border agents say they don't have room at their stations to take them in.
JUST IN: A federal appeals court has revived a House challenge of President Donald Trump’s use of Defense Department money to build a border wall after Democrats refused to provide funding he requested.
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Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton argues against labeling Mexican drug cartels foreign terrorist organizations, saying it would not solve the problems related to the groups.
Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush announced a lawsuit accusing the Biden administration of illegally preventing the border wall from being constructed.
DEVELOPING: Dozens of migrants are making their way from Juarez, Mexico to the border wall, in El Paso, Texas, where federal officials have started loading people onto buses.
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U.S. Border Patrol agents stopped a four-vehicle caravan carrying 20 Romanian migrants in what authorities called a “border rush” from Canada into Maine.
WATCH: More than 100 Guatemalan migrants who failed to establish legal grounds to remain in the U.S. were flown back to their country on a charter airplane taking off from El Paso International Airport on Thursday.
BREAKING: U.S. authorities have placed barricades in the middle of the Paso del Norte port of entry after learning of a large group of migrants massing on the Mexican side this morning.
The staff of a Houston Mexican restaurant are reeling after receiving hateful messages from people threatening to call ICE after the business announced it would continue requiring masks for customers.
Texas Republican Chip Roy’s push to oppose any bill that funds the Department of Homeland Security, unless it is accompanied by changes in border policy, gained the support of 14 fellow House Republicans from Texas.
An incomplete border wall continues to act as an entry point for an estimated 1,000 migrants who enter the country through Yuma, Arizona daily.
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HAPPENING TODAY: The City of El Paso is considering spending an additional $4 million to provide migrants free bus rides to their destination of choice, as more and more Venezuelans without sponsors continue crossing over from Mexico.
BREAKING: Asylum-seekers who were placed in the "Remain in Mexico" program and have since been allowed into the U.S. arrived in Downtown El Paso moments ago. Story:
Mexican authorities have stepped up security around Juarez International Airport following a pair of fatal shootings allegedly linked to migrant trafficking.
A growing number of migrants in South El Paso can be seen carrying manila folders, which are typically given to those who have been given a Notice to Appear form. However, some migrants might be carrying false documents.
Two Border Patrol leaders under investigation for their ties to a Mexican tequila company are also being questioned about their relationship with an international businessman involved in cross-border trade.
The Mexican government is using video of homeless people and open-air drug users in Philadelphia’s embattled Kensington neighborhood in a national ad campaign to try to scare young people away from drugs.
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Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Honduras next week to attend the inauguration of President-elect Xiomara Castro, the Central American country’s first female president.
The day Title 42 was supposed to end, migrants formed a quarter-mile-long line on the U.S. bank of the Rio Grande waiting for border agents to pick them up and listen to their asylum claim.
Mexico’s president says he opposes the criminal charges filed against former President Trump, suggesting they were brought for political reasons during an electoral campaign.
Members of the Texas National Guard have arrived in El Paso and have set up concertina wire, blocking an area of the border where thousands of migrants have been crossing into the U.S. in recent weeks.
The latest on Title 42:
BREAKING: the Texas Department of Public Safety has resumed enhanced inspections of commercial vehicles, and trucks carrying merchandise to the U.S. are sitting in line for hours at the El Paso-Juarez border.
153 agents have died on the job since the U.S. Border Patrol was created in 1924 in circumstances as diverse as being run over by smugglers, succumbing to heat exhaustion in the desert, and perishing in rollover accidents during pursuits.
City officials are warning residents and border industry to expect delays, as the federal government plans to redeploy customs officers to migrant processing duties, possibly in the next few days.
The number of migrants encountered on the Southwest border continue to drop daily since Title 42 was lifted, and DHS reports the surge of Venezuelans coming to cross has all but ended.
A Texas Republican senator is proposing a bill that would authorize law enforcement to arrest and prosecute anyone who crosses the border illegally, and anywhere in the state.
Police in Juarez, Mexico, this week pulled the remains of two persons half-buried and covered in lime under a mobile structure in a parking lot next to the Paso del Norte Bridge and the Rio Grande.
The 1,500 U.S. troops that will be sent to the border next week will be dispatched to El Paso, Texas, which has been the busiest corridor for illegal crossings over the last six months.
A Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua, one of the largest growing criminal organizations in the world, has infiltrated its way into the United States, an El Paso FBI agent said.
Ever since migrants were required to make asylum interviews on the CBP One app, advocates in Laredo have heard horrifying tales of migrants robbed, kidnapped and held for ransom across the border in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.
The head of Mexico’s immigration agency has ordered the suspension of migrant deportations and transfers due to a lack of funds amid a record-setting year for migration through the country’s territory. What it means for migrants heading to the border:
Baja California health officials have started vaccinating migrants at the makeshift campsite just south of the San Ysidro Port of Entry between Tijuana and San Diego.
The U.S. Border Patrol honored its fallen heroes on Thursday with bagpipes, a 21-gun salute and a helicopter flyover at the National Border Patrol Museum in Northeast El Paso.
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stems from a community that’s hurting but that will heal by fighting back against white supremacy, racism and xenophobia,” one organizer said.
In El Paso, Del Rio and Eagle Pass, Texas, migrant shelters have filled up and caused the Border Patrol to release onto the street migrants awaiting immigration hearings.
The United States Treasury has announced sanctions on a Mexico-based migrant-trafficking gang that supplied asylum-seekers with false papers to game the process.
A historic backlog of over 2 million immigration cases, plus years of delays in scheduling hearings, is drawing migrants to illegally cross the border, according to a new report.
U.S. and Mexican officials have agreed on new immigration policies meant to deter illegal border crossings while also opening up other pathways ahead of an expected increase in migrants following the end of pandemic restrictions next week.
BREAKING: Anti-border wall activists in Texas breathed a sigh of relief after learning that DHS has stopped trying to access land on the Southwest border to be used for border wall construction.
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Chilean police say they have detained an international group of migrant traffickers who have sent more than 1,000 migrants out of the South American nation, including lone children heading to the United States.
A line of 18-wheeler trucks waited with idling engines on at Veterans International Bridge, where many truckers said they had been stuck for the past day after Texas DPS troopers began intensive inspections of all commercial vehicles coming from Mexico.
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Already, the number of daily migrant apprehensions is shooting up, nonprofit shelters are full and federal holding facilities are operating at several times their capacity.
Since Title 42 has been in place, more than 2 million migrants have been expelled, according to CBP data. With the policy ending, thousands of people who were turned away after traveling to seek asylum are expected to try again to reenter the country.
CBP officers working at two El Paso ports of entry seized nearly a half million dollars worth of fentanyl and cocaine while intercepting two failed smuggling attempts over the weekend.
8 young employees from cartel-run call center found dead after trying to quit jobs
U.S. and Mexican officials confirmed the brutal story that unfolded when relatives reported them missing after they did not return from work in an office near Guadalajara.
The City of El Paso is counting on busing and other “decompression” efforts to avert a crisis once more migrants come across the border when Title 42 ends May 11.
Just days before Veterans Day, a veteran Marine who has been living in Ciudad Juarez along with more than 25 other deported veterans, has been allowed to return to the U.S.
The leader of an effort by Central American migrants to walk across southern Mexico says the group will now head to the U.S. border, rather than Mexico City as originally planned.
HAPPENING NOW: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is holding a news conference with members of the Texas House of Representatives for a border security announcement from Shelby Park in Eagle Pass. Watch it live here:
Migrants call it "The Village," a new camp that's been forming on the U.S. side of the border in El Paso's Lower Valley, with more than six days to go before Title 42 expires.
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BREAKING: The CEO of Greyhound has demanded that DHS ensure that all undocumented asylum-seekers the agency releases show proof that they are COVID-free before boarding buses.
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UPDATE: The Republican congressman who represents
#DelRio
, Texas,
@RepTonyGonzales
, is urging President Joe Biden to issue a statewide emergency for Texas, as requested by Gov. Greg Abbott.
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The owner of a South Texas cantina has been sentenced to prison for trafficking young girls from Mexico and forcing them into prostitution north of the border.
Trump all but confirms he told Johnson to tank the Senate border deal: "A lot of people do call me and they respect me and they say, what do you think?"