Tag: Border

In this Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2016, photo, a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent searches for suspected illegal immigrants passing through the area in Hidalgo, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Appeals court rules against Trump’s ‘unlawful’ border wall funding

Anthony Leonardi · June 26, 2020 9:04 pm

Border Patrol agent walks near the secondary fence separating Tijuana, Mexico, background, and San Diego in San Diego. California Gov. Jerry Brown agreed Wednesday, April 11, 2018, to deploy 400 National Guard troops at President Trump's request.

National Security

Southern border deployment extended into 2021 with National Guard taking the lead

Abraham Mahshie · June 25, 2020 7:54 pm

Four Guatemalan nationals consisting of two men and a pair of 12 and 13-year-old boys, remove their shoe laces and personal items after being arrested by a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent Wednesday, July 18, 2018 in Yuma, Ariz. Recent crossers are infected with the coronavirus.

Washington Secrets

Border agents stopping illegal immigrants exposed to COVID-19, ‘several hundred’ infected

Paul Bedard · June 25, 2020 5:57 pm

Mark Morgan is shown at a hearing.

Border crisis on tap as people flee economically strapped Mexico and Central America

Anna Giaritelli · June 25, 2020 2:25 pm

A United States Customs and Border Protection Officer checks the documents of migrants, before being taken to apply for asylum in the United States, on the International Bridge 1 in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, Wednesday, July 17, 2019.

Supreme Court sides with Trump, blocks migrants at border from suing over asylum denial

Anna Giaritelli · June 25, 2020 10:43 am

President Trump speaks during a tour as he reviews border wall prototypes, Tuesday, March 13, 2018, in San Diego.

National Security

Local Arizona leaders tell visiting Trump his wall is working

Anna Giaritelli · June 24, 2020 4:00 am

Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Jerry Nadler, who are on a collision course in the Midterm primaries.

Trump signs ‘foolproof’ border wall

Anna Giaritelli · June 23, 2020 9:16 pm

In this Jan. 9, 2019 photo, construction crews install new border wall sections seen from Tijuana, Mexico. The government is working on replacing and adding fencing in various locations, and Trump in February declared a national emergency to get more funding for the wall.

Trump has put up more border wall during coronavirus pandemic than any point in his presidency

Anna Giaritelli · June 23, 2020 3:43 pm

Trump to attend Arizona border ‘commemoration’ of 200 miles of wall construction

Anna Giaritelli · June 22, 2020 4:58 pm

Border towns adversely hit as US and Canada extend nonessential travel ban

Jeremy Lott · June 19, 2020 3:00 am

This March 2, 2019, file photo, shows a Customs and Border Control agent patrolling on the US side of a razor-wire-covered border wall along the Mexico east of Nogales, Ariz. Battleground voters in a new survey support the administration's immigration pause to help unemployed Americans get re-hired.

Battleground voters, 2-1, back US immigration pause to help unemployed

Paul Bedard · June 17, 2020 11:52 am

Trump administration proposes to make it more difficult to claim asylum

Anna Giaritelli · June 11, 2020 3:12 pm