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Kamala Harris visited the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday as part of her role leading the Biden administration’s response to a steep increase in migration.

The chief of the Border Patrol says he has been forced out after less than two years in a position that lies in the crosshairs of polarizing political debate

Some migrants are willing to risk walking through a dangerous stretch of rough terrain in a vast valley of Texas ranchlands and brush to avoid detection by border authorities.

A compound of tents to detain migrant children and families was evacuated for hours when struck by fierce winds in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, authorities said Wednesday.

U.S. officials are scrambling to handle a dramatic spike in children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border alone

U.S. authorities say they picked up nearly 19,000 children traveling alone across the Mexican border in March

The U.S. government plans to use the downtown Dallas convention center to hold up to 3,000 immigrant teenagers as sharply higher numbers of border crossings have severely strained the current capacity to hold youths, according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press.

Larger numbers of immigrant families have been crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in the first weeks of President Joe Biden’s administration

New York authorities confiscated nearly a thousand pounds of prohibited duck meat and clams last week. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers found the massive amount of duck tongues, duck intestines and blood clams while inspecting a shipment from China at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Jan. 13, according to the CBP. While these animal products are part of…

Almost 75 pounds of cocaine were found this week floating off the Florida Keys

After a record hot and dry summer, more deaths among border-crossers have been documented in Arizona’s desert and mountains. It’s a reminder that the most remote paths to enter the U.S. from Mexico can be the deadliest.

 U.S. Border Patrol agents said an Arizona man who was transporting a body to a mortuary is facing human smuggling charges after they found six Mexican citizens hidden inside the vehicle. The man was driving an SUV when he was stopped earlier this week in Douglas for an immigration inspection, the Border Patrol said Thursday. The man, who wasn’t...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) fired four employees and disciplined 65 others following an investigation into alleged violent and sexist posts submitted in closed Facebook groups, the agency confirmed Thursday.

The U.S. government says it’s sending 160 military police and engineers to two official border crossings to deal with asylum seekers in case a federal appeals court strikes down one of the Trump administration’s key policies

Peter Pan Bus Lines, a major Northeast carrier, will continue to allow federal immigration officials on its buses to conduct routine checks for immigrants living in the country illegally, saying it could help stem human trafficking, the company said this week. Peter Pan, based in Springfield, Massachusetts, “has always and will continue to cooperate with law enforcement,” Christopher Crean, vice…

Greyhound, the nation’s largest bus company, says it will stop allowing Border Patrol agents without a warrant to board its buses to conduct routine immigration checks

Greyhound, the nation’s largest bus company, says it will stop allowing Border Patrol agents without a warrant to board its buses to conduct routine immigration checks

A U.S. judge in Arizona has issued a permanent order requiring the Border Patrol to provide clean mats and thin blankets to migrants within 12 hours of arriving at a detention facility

Customs and Border Patrol agents, some with tactical training, will be deployed to so-called ‘sanctuary’ cities in an unusual move to step up immigration enforcement in the interior of the country

The move to send the specially trained officers to sanctuary cities across the country comes as cities like NYC don’t cooperate with some ICE requests. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.