Reynaldo Leaños Jr.
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President-elect Joe Biden said no more border wall will be built under his administration. Meanwhile, the Trump administration continues to expeditiously build and acquire land for wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. One of those areas is a world famous birding sanctuary in the Rio Grande Valley.
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A public health order issued in late-March by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention barred unauthorized migrants from entering the U.S. The...
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While much of the country has been on lockdown, construction of President Trump's border wall has continued.
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The Trump administration has accelerated some efforts to build the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, and the president is using the pandemic to justify his push for it.
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Hundreds of asylum-seekers are not getting a chance to make their case in U.S. immigration court. Instead, the migrants are put on planes to Guatemala and told to ask for asylum there.
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At one point a child welfare official threatened to take custody of the kids and families refused to let them go. "I told them I couldn't, that I wouldn't let my kid go," one woman said.
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The asylum-seekers, who were in Matamoros, Mexico, because of the Trump administration's Migrant Protection Protocols policy, said they faced violence and harassment because they identify as LGBTQ.
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Attorneys for the organization say vulnerable populations are supposed to be excluded from the groups of asylum-seekers being sent back to Mexico to wait for their U.S. immigration court hearings.
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To stem the flow of migrants across the southern border, the Trump administration is sending asylum seekers to Mexico to await their day in U.S. immigration court. This includes some pregnant women.
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In Matamoros, Mexico, volunteers have created a pop-up school on a downtown sidewalk for migrant children. They're all asylum-seekers waiting for their day in U.S. immigration court.
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The Trump administration issued a new rule requiring migrants to seek protection in another country they travel through before asking for asylum in the U.S.
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On Sunday evening, vigils took place in border towns to remember a father and daughter who died last week attempting to cross over to the United States rather than waiting in migrant camps in Mexico.