US-Mexico Border

A video posted on Twitter shows a man driving a pickup truck with 12 migrants inside before losing control on a dirt road and rolling over just north of the U.S.-Mexico Border.

Two guards who fled a fire that killed 40 migrants in a locked Mexican detention center did not have keys to the cell door, Mexico’s president said Tuesday.

Mexican officials appeared to place blame for the deaths in the fire late Monday largely on private, subcontracted security guards at the detention center in Ciudad Juarez.

Here are some questions and answers about the conditions and policies that led to one of Mexico’s deadliest events at an immigration detention center.

Video shows guards walking away from where a fire started during a blaze that killed at least 39 asylum-seekers at a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juarez. Mekahlo Medina reports March 28, 2023. 

The tentative agreement is the result of months of tense discussions between top Biden administration officials and the Mexican government, said sources.

The tentative agreement is the result of months of tense discussions between top Biden administration officials and the Mexican government, said sources.

Hundreds of migrants were stopped by U.S. officials at the El Paso, Texas, border after a group stampeded through Mexican lines to demand asylum Sunday.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says the three women crossed into Mexico on Feb. 24, a Friday, according to Bermea. Peñitas is just a few hundred feet from the Rio Grande River.

The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for the return of four Americans thought to be kidnapped in an attack in Mexico on Friday.

The number of encounters U.S. Border Patrol agents had with undocumented migrants crossing the southern border between legal ports of entry dipped below 130,000 in January.

The surge in egg and poultry seizures along the U.S.-Mexico border includes an uptick at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, where border officials recently intercepted nearly 1,000 huevos in about 10 minutes.

Authorities say a surge in Cuban and Nicaraguan arrivals at the U.S. border with Mexico in December led to the highest number of illegal border crossings recorded during any month of Joe Biden’s presidency.

The Biden administration has launched an online appointment system for migrants to be exempt from limits on seeking asylum, its latest major step to overhaul border enforcement.

President Joe Biden arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border on Sunday, his first trip there as president after two years of hounding by Republicans who have hammered him as soft on border security while the number of migrants crossing spirals.

President Joe Biden is heading to the U.S.-Mexico border later Sunday for a firsthand look at border security.

The president is expected to meet with border officials to discuss migration as well as the increased trafficking of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids, which are driving skyrocketing numbers of overdoses in the U.S.

President Joe Biden says he intends to visit the U.S.-Mexico border in connection with his meeting next week in Mexico City with the leaders of Canada and Mexico.

Gov. Doug Ducey says Arizona will take down a makeshift wall made of shipping containers at the Mexico border, settling a lawsuit and political tussle with the federal government over trespassing on federal lands.

An appeals court is rejecting efforts to keep in place pandemic-related restrictions on immigrants seeking asylum.