Ancient rock engravings in what’s now South America — believed to be among the largest in the world — were meant to mark the boundaries of the territories inhabited by their makers ...

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 ...

Asylum-seeking migrants from Turkey and Guatemala walk to reach a staging area after crossing the border into the U.S. from Mexico, after U.S. President Joe Biden announced a sweeping border ...

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 ...

Safeguarding the southern U.S. border, primarily the responsibility of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), remains a contentious issue as an increasing number of migrants from Asia ...

A blue state has deployed officials to the southern border in Texas to warn migrants that their shelters are full, as it struggles to house the numbers of migrants it is seeing. Massachusetts ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON—President Biden issued executive actions June 4 aiming to restrict migrants crossing the southern border, a last-ditch effort to lower illegal crossings ahead of the presidential ...

President Joe Biden is set to sign a long-anticipated executive order as soon as Tuesday that would allow him to “shut down” the southern border should crossings surge, according to four ...

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 new border crackdown unveiled by the Biden administration this week is likely to disproportionately affect families, whose soaring numbers in the last decade have drastically changed the profile ...