U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the federal agency tasked with patrolling the U.S. border and areas that function like a border, claims a territorial reach much larger than you might imagine. A ...

Mayorkas will speak to reporters in Tucson. Arrests for illegal border crossings have fallen more than 40% since the executive order went into effect, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

Border security is a top issue with American voters. President Biden is responding by signing executive action that he claims will help secure our borders. Is this a meaningful step to rein in the ...

Border Patrol agents in California have been told to release migrants from over 100 countries into the US, despite the Biden administration’s new border ‘crackdown’, according to a leaked ...

President Biden announced an executive order Tuesday that officials say will shut down the US-Mexico border if illegal crossings top 2,500 per day for seven consecutive days — a “crackdown ...

A new Biden administration policy that aims to address illegal southern US border crossings would have been in effect for at least the last three years because of a surge in migrant encounters ...

Between 2018 and 2019, for instance, the number of migrants in family units who crossed the border illegally jumped to 432,838 from 77,794, an increase of 456 percent. The number of apprehended ...

Shelters along the border were quieter on Friday and Saturday compared with previous months, but many hoping to cross into the U.S. felt stranded and fearful. Reison Daniel Peñuela, from ...

Following months of rumors, on Tuesday the Biden administration unveiled an executive order designed to shut down the border to people seeking asylum, as well as a rule to implement it.

A group of migrants from Venezuela along the border wall separating the United States from Mexico near Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in September 2023. (Michael Robinson Chávez/The Washington Post ...

The executive order will bar migrants crossing illegally from seeking asylum when there is high volume at the southern border. The White House said the steps will ‘make it easier for immigration ...

As she and dozens of other migrants weighed their chances of successfully crossing the dry Rio Grande and giving themselves up to U.S. Border Patrol agents, Texas troops watched them through a ...