US-Mexico Border

The U.S. still separates some migrant children from their parents while holding them after they cross the border despite broad improvements at detention centers in Texas.

The Texas General Land Office says incoming border czar Tom Homan has agreed to lease a parcel of rural Texas ranchland for upcoming federal border security operations.

President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration and border team is filling out.

Border Patrol agents are tasked with enforcing hotly contested immigration policies as many Americans at both ends of the political spectrum look askance at the border — and the agents. That’s taking a mounting toll, so the agency is training more among its ranks to become chaplains and provide spiritual care for their fellow agents on and off the job....

On Tuesday, Governor Greg Abbott and Steve McCraw, the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, will meet with incoming “border czar” Tom Homan.

Nearly 200 families have gathered along a stretch of the United States-Mexico border for heartfelt but brief reunions with loved ones they had not seen for years because they live in opposite countries.

A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer convicted of taking bribes to allow drug-laden vehicles across the U.S.-Mexico border was sentenced to over 23 years in prison.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has blamed the United States in part for the surge in cartel violence terrorizing the northern state of Sinaloa which has left at least 30 people dead in the past week.

A Venezuelan gang was a topic of discussion during a Senate committee meeting on border security. NBC ‘s Vince Sims tells us more about the gang known to be in the state and even in North Texas.

U.S. immigration policy has shifted the migrant landscape in Mexico City, far from the shared border. The teeming capital that was merely a transit point for some migrants has now become a temporary destination.

U.S. authorities say arrests for illegal border crossings from Mexico during August are expected to rise slightly from July.

U.S. authorities say arrests for illegal border crossings from Mexico during August are expected to rise slightly from July. That would possibly end a streak of five straight monthly declines but the numbers are hovering near four-year lows.

The CBP One app has been around, but as of Friday migrants in Mexico’s southernmost states bordering Guatemala will be able to apply for appointments. Previously, they had to be in central or northern Mexico.

On Thursday, U.S. authorities announced arrests linked with the deadliest case of human smuggling in U.S. history. NBC 5’s Vince Sims is following this story and has the latest.

Several people have been charged in Guatemala after 53 migrants were found dead in San Antonio, Texas, in 2022. NBC 5’s Alanna Quillen has the details. 

U.S. authorities on Thursday announced the indictment of a Guatemalan national who they say helped coordinate a human smuggling effort that ended with 53 migrants dead in a sweltering tractor-trailer in Texas.

The number of buses transporting migrants out of Texas has dropped sharply since President Joe Biden’s executive action limiting asylum claims went into effect on June 4, NBC News reports.

More than 5,000 pounds of methamphetamine were found hidden in shipments of celery and watermelon during two separate incidents in Otay Mesa near the U.S.-Mexico border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials announced this week.

A floating barrier in the Rio Grande meant to discourage migrants from trying to cross from Mexico into Texas can stay for now, a full federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

United States-Mexico border arrests during July have plummeted to a new low for Joe Biden’s presidency, raising prospects a temporary ban on asylum may be lifted soon.