Border Protection

As the delta variant fuels an increase of COVID-19 cases in the U.S., some of President Joe Biden’s critics blame the surge on his border policies, which allow some migrants to enter the country to apply for asylum

The inmate arrested for narcotics went into the ceiling to elude law enforcement as he was in the bathroom. He was eventually tracked down and brought back into custody. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

A large police presence was seen at the airport after the escape.

A prisoner in law enforcement custody made a daring escape into the ceiling at Newark Liberty International Airport after telling officers he had to use the bathroom, sources told NBC New York. The prisoner was taken into a bathroom at Terminal C just after 11 a.m., and the man “disappeared” while inside, a source initially said. Authorities allegedly believed he…

The internal watchdog for the Department of Homeland Security found that the Trump administration anticipated it would separate 26,000 children if the “zero tolerance” policy of 2018 had been allowed to continue, and that the agency knew it lacked the technology to track and reunite children with their parents, NBC News reported. Officials at Customs and Border Protection, the DHS...

A day before the acting Homeland Security secretary is set to leave his job, it remains unclear who will be tapped to run the sprawling agency tasked with national security, disaster response and protection of the president and his family. Kevin McAleenan, the fourth person to hold the job in the Trump administration, had told colleagues that he would be...

A 3-year-old girl from Honduras was united with her aunt in Frisco on Monday after she became separated from her father crossing the border two months ago.

 Members of the House Oversight Committee grill Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan about conditions for migrants at the southern border and at detention centers.

As tales of wretchedness and overcrowding in government border detention facilities abound, one group of migrants is particularly vulnerable: teen moms and pregnant girls without parents of their own. Immigrant advocates and lawyers say the young mothers don’t get special medical consideration while they’re being crammed into U.S. facilities so packed that migrants are forced to sleep on floors or...

Senate has passed an emergency aid bill pledging nearly $4.6 billion dollars to address the humanitarian crisis at the border. It comes as the Trump administration faces backlash for the treatment of migrant children at a U.S. detention facility in Texas.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says the state “cannot accommodate” an influx of immigrants that local officials say are being sent by the federal government from the U.S.-Mexico border.

House Democrats say controversial U.S. Customs and Border Protection program is a “troubling practice which raises serious legal and constitutional questions.”

A Customs and Border Protection officer shot and wounded a driver who was trying to enter Mexico at a crossing in Arizona, the agency said Friday. The mayor of Nogales, Arizona, told a newspaper Thursday night that the man was killed, but CBP spokeswoman Teresa Small told The Associated Press Friday the man had not died. A CBP statement said...

The nation’s top border security official told skeptical senators Tuesday that the use of tear gas on a group of migrants that included children was justified to manage a chaotic clash where a crowd was hurling rocks at agents and trying to illegally cross into the U.S. U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan testified before the Senate Judiciary...

The mother of a toddler who died weeks after being released from the nation’s largest family detention center has filed a legal claim seeking $60 million from the U.S. government for the child’s death. Attorneys for Yazmin Juarez submitted the claim against multiple agencies Tuesday. Juarez’s 1-year-old daughter, Mariee, died in May.

U.S. border agents fired tear gas on migrants protesting near the U.S.-Mexico border on Nov. 25. This is the timeline of events that led to the closure of the crossing.

The acting head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told senators Thursday that employees’ morale has suffered because of the bitter political climate, and he apologized for sending a tweet in 2015 that suggested renaming the Democratic Party as the “NeoKlanist” party. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee heard testimony on whether to confirm Ronald Vitiello as head...

A cross-border tunnel found in San Luis, Arizona, was found inside a former KFC restaurant after its owner was caught with a large amount of narcotics at a traffic stop. Authorities believe the tunnel was used to smuggle drugs from Mexico to the United States.

Federal authorities have discovered a sophisticated drug-smuggling tunnel that went from a home in Mexico to an abandoned fast-food restaurant in Arizona. The Homeland Security Investigations division of the Department of Homeland Security says it got word in April that there was a tunnel leading to an old Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant that’s not in operation in San Luis, Arizona,...

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., grilled officials working to enforce the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy at the U.S.-Mexico border in a hearing Tuesday.