U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested fewer people during the 2019 budget year than last year, in part because resources were shifted to help handle the massive surge of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, the agency said Wednesday.
Read moreIt’s not for the European Court of Justice to wade into an international territorial dispute between the Balkan nations of Slovenia and Croatia, the court’s advocate general said Wednesday.
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A federal judge on Tuesday issued a nationwide injunction blocking the Trump administration’s plan to use $3.6 billion in military construction money to build the president’s long-promised border wall.
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Poland’s agriculture minister says 21 wild boars have died as a result of an outbreak of African swine fever close to the German border.
Read moreHumanitarian aid worker Scott Warren emerged from the federal courthouse to cheers after a jury acquitted him on charges that he illegally shielded two undocumented immigrants from Border Patrol agents at a rural desert aid station.
Read moreA federal judge in Boston ruled Tuesday that the government’s suspicionless searches of international travelers’ smartphones and laptops at border ports of entry and airports violate the Fourth Amendment.
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A federal judge asked for clarification Friday about how exactly the federal government’s “Migrant Protection Protocols” are being employed by immigration agents at the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego as he considers whether asylum seekers have a right to counsel when being interviewed about their fear of being returned to Mexico.
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A string of violence south of Arizona’s border with Mexico has sparked warnings by U.S. authorities and is forcing people who say they won’t stop crossing into Mexico to consider how to travel safely.
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Bernie Sanders is adding his support to a call by some of his fellow presidential hopefuls for decriminalizing illegal border crossings, a proposal that’s exposing deep ideological divides in the Democratic primary and may prove politically treacherous in the general election.
Read moreA federal judge heard debate Tuesday on whether new restrictions on asylum can apply to those who appeared at ports of entry before being required to wait in Mexico while their cases are adjudicated in the United States.
Read moreU.S. military forces patrolled part of Syria’s border with Turkey on Thursday in the first such move since Washington withdrew troops from the area this month.
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The Trump administration’s incessant rollout of immigration-stifling policies this year seem to have had their desired effect: Arrests and entry denials by U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the southwest border fell from 144,000 in May to 52,000 last month. But the agency’s director said Tuesday the “crisis” is not over.
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Russian forces crossed the Euphrates River in Syria and headed for the border with Turkey on Wednesday, under a deal cut by President Vladimir Putin of Russia and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Syrian Kurds issued a “general mobilization” call in northeastern Syria on the border with Turkey on Wednesday, as Ankara poised for an imminent invasion of the area in a major escalation in the war-ravaged country.
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Julio Lopez and his family faced a decision when they reached the U.S. border to seek asylum: cross illegally or follow government instructions to stay in Mexico, even if it meant waiting for months. The Salvadoran family waited to make their case, only to find out the Trump administration is no longer allowing in people like them.
Read moreThe House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill to create a new government watchdog tasked with fielding and investigating complaints of abuse of immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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The Trump administration plans to divert $3.6 billion away from military construction projects toward the president’s long-promised border wall.
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Lawyers for the Trump administration told a federal judge in Texas Thursday that the nation’s lawmakers, not its courts, should determine whether or not the president’s declaration of an emergency at the southern border constitutes an abuse of power, as critics have alleged in multiple lawsuits playing out across the country.
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Russian border guards have seized more than 4,000 endangered wild tortoises after they were smuggled out of Kazakhstan, officials said.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation is suing the Department of Homeland Security for failing to respond to two Freedom of Information Act requests seeking documents about the agency’s warrantless installation of GPS tracking systems on vehicles at ports of entry.
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