President Trump’s claims of a national security crisis at the southern border are false, as families entering illegally are turning themselves in to immigration agents and asking for asylum, members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus said Monday at a Border Patrol station in New Mexico.
Read moreThe European Union’s border agency says the number of unauthorized border crossings into Europe has hit a five-year low, but that migrant entries into Spain via the Mediterranean continue to climb.
Read moreAs the trial of drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman resumes Thursday after the holiday break, a stream of new court filings signal that the government shutdown has not slowed down prosecutors.
Read moreU.S. authorities fired tear gas into Mexico during the first hours of the new year to repel about 150 migrants who allegedly tried to breach the border fence in Tijuana.
Read moreOne week into the government shutdown driven by his demand for border-wall funding, President Donald Trump doubled down Friday by threatening to close the U.S.-Mexico border.
Read moreEritrea has partially closed two border crossings with Ethiopia that opened this year after the former East African rivals made peace and restored relations, an Ethiopian official said Friday.
Read moreFollowing the second death of an immigrant child in federal custody on Christmas Eve, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol said it will begin conducting additional medical checks on children and review its policies on the care and custody of young children.
Read moreThe European Union’s unique treaty on borders bars Germany from requiring bus drivers to check passports and residence papers of passengers entering German territory, the EU’s highest court ruled Thursday.
Read moreDozens of North and South Korean soldiers crossed over the world’s most heavily armed border Wednesday as they inspected the sites of their rival’s front-line guard posts to verify they’d been removed, part of inter-Korean engagement efforts that come amid stalled U.S.-North Korea nuclear disarmament talks.
Read moreFinding the federal agency tasked with diverting polluted Mexican waters from fouling San Diego beaches does not have sovereign immunity to dodge a lawsuit alleging Clean Water Act violations, a federal judge Tuesday denied dismissal of the groundbreaking case.
Read moreU.S. Border Patrol arrests on the Mexican border jumped 78 percent in November from a year earlier to the highest level in Donald Trump’s presidency, with families and children accounting for a majority for a third straight month.
Read moreCalifornia’s incoming governor Gavin Newsom toured the Otay Mesa Detention Center outside San Diego Thursday and said more local, state and federal dollars are needed so asylum-seeking migrants don’t “end up on the streets and sidewalks.”
Read moreBorder agents in Greece, Hungary and Latvia are experimenting with a new, and controversial, tool at border crossings into Europe: An artificial intelligence system designed to detect if a person is lying.
Read moreA five-hour long closure of the U.S.-Mexico border in both directions Sunday due to mounting tensions over migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. resulted not only in the tear gassing of men, women and children in Mexico by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, but also led to millions in economic losses for a binational region with business ties that don’t stop at a border wall.
Read moreA group of Honduran and Mexican nationals is challenging a proclamation by President Donald Trump that anyone who crosses the southern border between official ports of entry into the United States from Mexixco would be ineligible for asylum.
Read moreUsing thousands of military troops to help secure the Southwest border will cost an estimated $210 million under current plans, the Pentagon told Congress on Tuesday, even as questions arose about the scope and duration of the controversial mission.
Read moreMany of the 5,800 troops President Donald Trump deployed to the Southwest border to fortify fencing to keep out large groups of Central American immigrants seeking asylum in the U.S. are no longer needed and will start going home this week, an Army general said Monday.
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“Seeking safety is not a crime.” Aid workers and staff members of Doctors Without Borders repeat these words during “Forced From Home,” an interactive tour educating Americans about the pressures that have made more than 68.5 million people asylum-seekers, migrants or refugees worldwide.
Read moreAdmitting his candidate isn’t perfect, a union worker in deep-red Missouri says Democrat Claire McCaskill cares about working families and deserves to hold on to her Senate seat in her neck-and-neck battle with the state’s Republican attorney general.
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