New statistics reported Tuesday by Customs and Border Protection show that roughly 1 million migrants have been arrested at the southern border in the last year, the most in over a decade.
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The Trump administration is blocking shipments from a Chinese company making baby pajamas sold at Costco warehouses after the foreign manufacturer was accused of forcing ethnic minorities locked in an internment camp to sew clothes against their will.
Read moreThe Trump administration on Tuesday announced it is holding imports of clothing, gold, diamonds and other items believed to have been produced with forced labor by companies based in Brazil, China and Malaysia as well as some gold mined in eastern Congo and diamonds from a region in Zimbabwe.
Read moreTwenty-five years after “Operation Gatekeeper” changed the way immigration officials policed the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego, immigrant advocates called for new policies Tuesday to curb the loss of life along the border.
Read moreA 40-foot-wide dirt road stretches off into the distance through Sunburst, Montana, a tiny farming town in north-central Montana on the U.S.-Canada border.
Read moreA Honduran family claims in a federal complaint that U.S. Customs and Border Protection separated the parents from their 3-year-old child and sent the father to jail in Starr County, Texas, where he died.
Read moreU.S. Customs and Border Protection says a new 2,500-person holding facility will open Friday in a remote corner of West Texas as the agency attempts to deal with what it calls an unprecedented influx of immigrants at the southern border.
Read moreFrustrations simmered Tuesday at the Senate Homeland Security Committee as the head of Customs and Border Patrol told lawmakers that immigrants are exploiting children to help their chances at crossing the border.
Read moreAttorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union and Electronic Frontier Foundation asked a federal judge Thursday afternoon to ban the practice of border agents searching electronic devices without a warrant.
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As Senate Republicans blamed a Ninth Circuit decision with the trend of adult immigrants bringing along a child to help their chance at U.S. entry, Democrats pushed back at their fix Wednesday as a bid to legalize indefinite detentions.
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Expounding on a report that detailed a “ticking time bomb” at detention centers on the southern border, a Department of Homeland Security watchdog Monday told Congress that overcrowding at federal facilities has reached unprecedented levels.
Read moreVice President Mike Pence toured two detention facilities on the Texas border Friday, including a Border Patrol station where hundreds of men were crowded in sweltering cages without cots.
Read moreCustoms and Border Patrol reached a sweeping settlement where they agree not to detain domestic flight passengers who refuse suspicionless ID checks while still on board the plane.
Read moreThe acting head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection resigned Tuesday amid an uproar over the discovery of migrant children being held in filthy conditions at one of the agency’s stations in Texas.
Read moreAt a hearing where the chief of U.S. Border Patrol defended the need for military involvement in addressing the immigration crisis, members of Congress pushed back Thursday on that partnership’s mounting costs and still unseen payoff.
Read moreFederal agents have temporarily closed their primary immigration jail in South Texas one day after a 16-year-old died after being diagnosed with the flu at the prison.
Read moreA federal judge heard arguments Friday on whether she should dismiss a case challenging Customs and Border Protection’s practice of turning away asylum seekers, with much of the discussion splitting hairs over where Mexico ends and U.S. soil begins at ports of entry.
Read moreA 25-year veteran officer of Customs and Border Protection, Manuel Porras Salas, who worked at Los Angeles International Airport, was sentenced Thursday to 151 months in federal prison for helping to move hundreds of kilograms of cocaine, heroin and marijuana from Southern California to Chicago.
Read moreDepartment of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is leaving her post after 16 months on the job, according to a tweet by the president on Sunday.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss a Muslim U.S. citizen’s claim that Customs and Border Protection officers in Michigan subjected him to torture by placing him “in isolation in a small, freezing-cold holding cell with excessively bright lights for at least four hours” and denied him medical care even after he became unconscious.
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