Immigration

National Guards patrol a highway near Aguililla, Mexico, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026, after the Mexican army killed Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as "El Mencho." (AP Photo/Armando Solis)

Border Patrol agents anticipate cartels will use blue wave to lure migrants to US

Anna Giaritelli · November 7, 2026 6:00 am

Houston Mayor John Whitmire

Houston mayor limits police cooperation with ICE after blue wave

The White House spent election day broadcasting optimism about Republicans' chances of holding their Congressional majorities, but the mood was much more tense behind closed doors. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Armed migrant arrested next to White House after alleged threat to assassinate Trump

Workers continue to deploy large buoys to be used as a border barrier along the banks of the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas, Wednesday, July 12, 2023. The floating barrier is being deployed in an effort to block migrants from entering Texas from Mexico.

Greg Abbott spent years fortifying the Texas border. Gina Hinojosa could undo it all

A Border Patrol agent's yellow-and-black patch on their arm of uniform is seen while they hold a news conference.

Federal police investigating fatal shooting in Laredo, Texas, involving Border Patrol: Report

Trump has addressed the asylum issue and it’s working to control the immigration chaos, for now

Eddie Scarry October 9, 2019 3:21 pm

In this Sept. 26, 2019 file photo asylum seekers in Tijuana, Mexico.

‘Ten years in detention is better than a day here,’ says migrant eager to enter the US from Mexico

Eddie Scarry October 8, 2019 6:05 pm

Migrants scramble across the Rio Bravo to surrender to the American authorities, on the U.S.-Mexico border between Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, Saturday, June 15, 2019.

Nearly 1 million people encountered at Mexican border over past 12 months

Anna Giaritelli October 8, 2019 4:07 pm

President Trump, joined by from left, Defense Secretary Mark Esper, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, speaks to media during a briefing with senior military leaders in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 7, 2019.

How Trump can save the Kurds: Accept more refugees

Brad Polumbo October 8, 2019 3:59 pm

In this March 27, 2019 photo, Central American migrants wait for food in a pen erected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to process a surge of migrant families and unaccompanied minors in El Paso, Texas.

Trump’s detention facilities show up on Wikipedia’s list of internment and concentration camps

Mike Brest October 8, 2019 3:47 pm

A marker with "Unknown Remains" marks the grave of an unidentified immigrant, Wednesday, June 25, 2014, at a cemetery in Falfurrias, Texas.

Dead bodies pile up in Texas as we fail to secure the border

Igor C. Magalhaes October 7, 2019 7:16 pm

Protesters interupt Acting Homeland Security Secretary McAleenan during speech

Acting homeland security secretary walks out after protesters repeatedly disrupt remarks

Anna Giaritelli, Mike Brest October 7, 2019 2:33 pm

Rock climbers competing to scale ‘impossible to climb’ border wall

Ellie Bufkin October 5, 2019 2:29 pm

Migrant families cross the Rio Grande to get illegally across the border into the United States, to turn themselves in to authorities and ask for asylum, next to the Paso del Norte international bridge, near El Paso, Texas, Friday, May 31, 2019. The Border Patrol said it has encountered more than 180 groups of over 100 people since October, compared with 13 in the previous 12-month period and two the year before.

Most illegal crossings in 12 years: Border Patrol took 851,000 into custody during fiscal 2019

Anna Giaritelli October 5, 2019 11:00 am

Army veteran wins US citizenship months after deportation over drug charge

Tim Pearce October 5, 2019 2:36 am

Honduran migrants, one carrying a child, who plan to turn themselves over to U.S. border patrol agents, walk up the embankment after climbing over the U.S. border wall from Playas de Tijuana, Mexico in Tijuana, Mexico, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018. The group crossed to apply for asylum.

Trump to require immigrants to get health insurance

Kimberly Leonard October 4, 2019 11:52 pm

President Donald Trump

143 companies and business groups oppose Trump’s efforts to roll back DACA

Melissa Quinn October 4, 2019 3:36 pm