U.S. Border Security

U.S. officials say more than 6,000 Haitians and other migrants have been removed from an encampment at a Texas border town.

As of Monday, Aug. 9, Canada has lifted its prohibition on Americans crossing the border to shop, vacation or visit, but the United States is keeping similar restrictions in place for Canadians.

There are expected to be more than 210,000 migrant encounters in July

The detainees are being held at what had been an empty state prison in Dilley, Texas, about 100 miles (160.93 kilometers) north of the border city of Laredo, said Robert Hurst, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. He said the converted facility will be able to hold more than 950 people.

ICE will avoid detaining most undocumented people who are pregnant, postpartum or nursing under a new policy announced Friday.

Former President Trump's visit to the Texas border comes two weeks after Gov. Greg Abbott promised to finish the border wall in Texas using state funds and private donations. Critics call it a political stunt.

Greg Abbott and Donald Trump were in the Rio Grande Valley visiting the border in Hidalgo County and Abbott reiterated his own pledge to finish the border wall in Texas.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem announced that she is deploying National Guard troops to Texas to help with border security, joining a growing list of Republican governors -- including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis -- who have committed to sending law enforcement officers to the U.S. border with Mexico.

More than 50 law enforcement officers in Florida will head to Texas and Arizona on Monday to help with border-control efforts

Vice President Kamala Harris is set to make her first visit to the U.S.-Mexico border since taking office.

The U.S. extended restrictions with Canada and Mexico land borders on non-essential travel through July 21 amid the ongoing effort to limit COVID-19.

NATO leaders on Monday declared China a constant security challenge and said the Chinese are working to undermine global order.

Gov. Greg Abbott announced Thursday that Texas will build a border wall along the state’s boundary with Mexico — but provided no details on where or when.

"President Biden, Prime Minister Trudeau, my fiancé and I are separated by your closed border; it’s just policy to you but it's prison to us," says one television ad, paid for by a Citrus County, Florida man.

A video shows a migrant boy screaming "don't go" after being left alone at the U.S.-Mexico border.

The notoriously violent Jalisco cartel has responded to Mexico’s “hugs, not bullets” policy with a policy of its own and is now hunting down and killing police at their homes.

Officials say two people are dead and 10 others are missing after their boat overturned near the Florida Keys. 

Mounted Border Patrol officers arrested nearly three dozen border crossers decked out in camo near the Arizona-New Mexico state line.

Twenty-three people were rescued Monday from a suspected smuggling boat off the San Diego coast not far from where another vessel broke up a few weeks ago, killing three people, authorities said.