US Mexico Border

U.S. Border Patrol agents from the Chula Vista Border Patrol Station arrested an alleged member of the violent street gang Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) who entered the country illegally along with a group of people, officials announced last week.

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....

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.

Arrests for illegal border crossings from Mexico during August are expected to rise slightly from July, officials said, likely ending five straight months of declines.

Immigration attorney Alma Rosa Nieto joins NBC4 to explain the processes behind President Biden’s executive order to temporarily shut down asylum requests at the U.S. Mexico border.

The ACLU is among the groups that are slamming the new executive order that would tighten the U.S. Mexico border. NBC Los Angeles’ Camilla Rambaldi reports. 

Volunteers are handing out food and water to the people on the other side of the U.S. Mexico border as they wait to enter the country. NBC Los Angeles’ Christian Cázares reports from the border in San Diego.

Los Angeles immigrant advocacy groups caution President Biden’s new executive order would harm migrants without effectively reducing the number of people crossing into the country.

The Department of Homeland Security announced that the Biden administration leveraged sweeping executive power to waive 26 federal laws in South Texas.

Mexican officials have pledged to set up checkpoints to “dissuade” migrants from hopping freight trains to the U.S. border.

Mexico is on track to receive more asylum applications this year than ever before as the flow of migrants threatens to overwhelm governments of several Latin American countries along the migratory route.

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Texas to move a large floating barrier to the bank of the Rio Grande after protests from the U.S. and Mexican governments over Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s latest tactic to stop migrants from crossing America’s southern border.

President Joe Biden issued an executive order his first day in office to halt wall construction, ending a signature effort by his predecessor, Donald Trump. But his administration has moved ahead with small, already-contracted projects

Smugglers are suddenly steering migrants through some of the most desolate and dangerous areas of the Arizona borderlands, forcing them to walk for miles in scorching heat.

The U.S. is working with the foreign partners to shut down the travel routes used by the smuggling network and to identify the people who used it to enter the country, the NSC said.

The new Biden administration initiative comes two months after the expiration of pandemic-era border restriction known as Title 42 in May

Dozens of people who apparently were smuggled into the United States were found working and living in “horrible” conditions at an illegal marijuana plant in California’s Central Valley, authorities said Thursday.

According to the Department of Homeland Security, about 85,000 migrants have been “repatriated” since Title 42 was lifted. That’s up 65% since the same period last year.

Under the rule, migrants are generally presumed ineligible for asylum unless they use a government app to get an appointment or they’ve already tried to seek protection in another country.