Photos: Migrants rush across US border in final hours before pandemic rule expires
Clasping exhausted children, desperate migrants tried to make their way to the United States before the end of the pandemic-era health rule known as Title 42.
In Texas, members of the National Guard were deployed to the Mexico border as part of their state's response to the rush, bearing guns as migrants came with dozing children, and clothes soaked by crossing the Rio Grande.
Gov. Jim Pillen has authorized the deployment of 10 state troopers, all of whom are experienced drone operators, to help Texas protect the southern border.
The federal government on Friday reopened the railroad crossings with Mexico that it had temporarily shut down this week in order to focus on processing migrants.
Migrants hunched over cellphones trying to access the appointment app that is a centerpiece of new asylum measures.
Experts say that while migration laws are changing, root causes pushing people to flee their countries in record numbers only stretch on.
U.S. immigration officials say an 8-year-old girl who died last week in Border Patrol custody was seen at least three times by medical personnel on the day of her death.
A federal appeals court has ruled that a U.S. deportation law that fueled family separations at the southern border is “neutral as to race,” striking down an unprecedented Nevada ruling that had determined it was racist and unconstitutional.
Asylum-seekers say joy over the end of the public health restriction known as Title 42 this month is turning into anguish with the realization of how the Biden administration’s new rules affect them.
A new Biden administration policy is dramatically lowering the percentage of migrants at the southern border who enter the United States and are allowed to apply for asylum, a new analysis finds.
As the Biden administration prepared to launch speedy asylum screenings at the border this spring, authorities pledged a key difference from a Trump-era version of the policy: Migrants would be guaranteed access to legal representation.
The Justice Department told Texas that a floating barrier of wrecking ball-sized buoys the state put on the Rio Grande violates federal law.
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday approved sweeping new powers that allow police to arrest migrants who illegally cross the U.S. border and give local judges authority to order them to leave the country, testing the limits of how far a state can go to enforce immigration laws.
A total of 35 National Guard soldiers and airmen and 10 state troopers will be sent to the U.S. border with Mexico in April, Gov. Jim Pillen announced.
