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No, Kamala Harris was never the ‘border czar’
While the vice president has indeed played an immigration-related role under Biden, her responsibilities are often mischaracterized. The reality is that her role has been diplomatic
While the vice president has indeed played an immigration-related role under Biden, her responsibilities are often mischaracterized. The reality is that her role has been diplomatic
Joaquín Guzmán López, one of ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán’s sons, was also apprehended in the operation carried out at an airport in the border city of El Paso
The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Southwest Key alleging that employees have harassed unaccompanied minors in their care from 2015 to 2023
Following the executive order issued by President Biden that restricts asylum, immigrants who manage to prove a reasonable fear of persecution or torture if they return may receive protection to prevent their repatriation
Under the direction of Republican Governor Greg Abbott, the state has intensified efforts to criminalize all support for immigrants and tried to shut down shelters such as Annunciation House in El Paso
Michael DeBruhl has dedicated his life to immigration, first with law enforcement, and now as director of a shelter in El Paso: ‘We have to open more routes for migrants’
One-fifth of new firearm owners are Hispanic. Between 2019 and 2020, community purchases grew by almost 50%
The visits underscore immigration’s central importance in the 2024 presidential race and how much both candidates are seeking to use the nation’s broken system to their political advantage
The death toll at the world’s most dangerous land crossing threatens to surpass the 560 victims documented last year
In Ciudad Juárez, hundreds of migrants, especially Venezuelans, are waiting to cross and surrender to the border police, encouraged by many others who have already done it. Their fate: a legal limbo awaiting deportation trials
Democratic administration waives 26 federal laws that could result in up to 20 miles of barriers in South Texas in bid to contain surge in illegal arrivals from Mexico
Saúl Armendáriz — who spent more than three decades in the world of ‘lucha libre’ — overcame discrimination, addiction, and a stroke to see his story brought to the big screen. In a new film, he is played by acclaimed Mexican actor Gael García Bernal
In Eagle Pass, Texas, nearly 6,000 migrants entered in two days, prompting authorities to close a border crossing to reassign officials to the influx. Border crossings have closed for similar reasons in San Diego and El Paso
At least 91,000 immediate family members were detained last month, the highest figure since May 2019
Patrick Crusius, 24, pleaded guilty earlier this year to nearly 50 federal hate crime charges in the 2019 mass shooting in El Paso
Copas, who is from Tompkinsville, Kentucky, was in El Paso visiting her boyfriend, according to authorities
Hurd served three terms in the House through January 2021, becoming the chamber’s only Black Republican during his final two years in office. He is also a former CIA agent who worked in Pakistan
In the most recent turn of events in the migratory crisis, the lifting of the controversial norm — decreed during the Trump administration — has filled the cities of Ciudad Juárez and El Paso with thousands of people. They have terrible tales to tell. Here are a few of them
The end of Trump’s controversial immigration rule makes way for a new regime fraught with uncertainties. Here’s what’s known about what comes next
The end of Donald Trump’s Covid measure, which allowed the immediate expulsion of people, has not solved the problems in the area or between the governments of Joe Biden and Andrés Manuel López Obrador
The Republicans in Congress have proposed a law that will make it tougher for people to enter the United States. Alejandro Mayorkas – the secretary of Homeland Security – warns of ‘difficult days ahead’
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the fire was started by migrants inside the facility in Ciudad Juárez, near the U.S. border, after learning they would be deported
Video of the scene at the Paso Del Norte bridge on Sunday showed hundreds of migrants arrive at the border. Many of them appeared to be asylum seekers
The United States has seen dozens of people killed in mass shootings so far in 2023
The 2019 massacre happened on a busy weekend at a supermarket that is typically popular with shoppers from Mexico and the US