border security

EL PASO, Texas—No one is able to estimate how many fraudulent families have already been released into the United States. But almost 250,000 individuals within “family units” have been apprehended ...

WASHINGTON—Huge amounts of money are flowing straight to the coffers of the Mexican cartels and smuggling organizations off ...

WASHINGTON—Legislation being introduced into the Senate is aimed to close the legal loopholes that allow hundreds of thousands ...

McAllen, Texas—On the U.S.-Mexico border, illegal immigrants are paying smugglers anywhere up to $20,000 to take them across ...

WASHINGTON—Filling another gap created by a big Department of Homeland Security shakeup, President Donald Trump has tapped former ...

ROMA, Texas—Illegal immigrants and drug traffickers aren’t the only incursions that border ranchers are battling in southeast Texas. ...

McALLEN, Texas—Seven Chinese illegal aliens try to evade Border Patrol; a smuggler ferries two Guatemalans across the Rio ...

DEL RIO, Texas—A 1-year-old baby that a Honduran man tried to pass off as his child—to gain a ...

YUMA, Ariz.—Thirteen pale and wide-eyed Guatemalans emerged onto the dusty road, puffing and panting and utterly shocked. They ...

Additional troops sent to the U.S.–Mexico border will be armed, President Donald Trump said after two U.S. soldiers ...

A federal appeals court has temporarily halted a lower court's order to stop a Trump administration policy that ...

WASHINGTON—Record-setting numbers of illegal immigrants during March saw Border Patrol facilities reach such overcapacity that agents were forced ...

WASHINGTON—At current levels, close to 1 million people will be apprehended by Border Patrol crossing the southern border ...

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump said he intends to replace Ron Vitiello, his nomination to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...

WASHINGTON—Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has resigned, according to a tweet posted by President Donald Trump ...

As President Donald Trump prepared to visit California in a push for stronger border security, his re-election campaign ...

WASHINGTON—Construction is underway on a new, 13-mile stretch of border infrastructure in the Rio Grande Valley, southeast Texas, ...

With President Donald Trump talking about closing the U.S.-Mexico border, what is the current state of the crisis ...

Commentary Barack Obama’s right-hand man on immigration proved that a cursory review of verifiable data can prove what ...

ROMA, Texas—It’s not uncommon to hear gun battles and grenades exploding across the Rio Grande in the Mexican ...

WASHINGTON—Tom Homan, the former head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said politicians who enact sanctuary policies on ...

Jeh Johnson, the former homeland security secretary during the Obama administration, said on several recent television appearances that ...

WASHINGTON—Huge groups of Central Americans have brought U.S. border security to its knees, as an estimated 100,000 illegal ...

ROMA, Texas—The Rio Grande Valley in southeast Texas has led the nation in illegal border crossings since 2013, ...

SARITA, Texas—Hundreds of Border Patrol agents, sheriffs, and law enforcement officials joined the family of slain Border Patrol ...

WASHINGTON—Tom Homan, former head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) hit out at the 12 Republican senators who ...

WASHINGTON—The Senate passed a privileged resolution to terminate President Donald Trump’s national border emergency declaration by a vote ...