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Border arrests fall, deportations soar in Trump’s first year

December 5, 2017 at 12:27 p.m.

Border Patrol arrests plunged to a 45-year low, but detentions by deportation officers away from the U.S.-Mexico border soared during President Donald Trump's first months in office, as his efforts...

Trump’s border wall models take shape in San Diego

October 20, 2017 at 5:29 a.m.

The last two of eight prototypes for President Donald Trump's proposed border wall took shape Thursday at a construction site in San Diego.

Stopped at U.S. border, Haitians find “Mexican dream” instead

September 20, 2017 at 12:27 a.m.

They are among several thousand Haitians who came to Mexico's northwest corner hoping to cross the border before the U.S. abruptly closed its doors last year.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks Tuesday from the Justice Department in Washington. Sessions announced that the Trump administration is ending the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which protect those who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, with a six-month delay for the Congress to put in replacement legislation.

Fact check: What the Trump administration said about DACA

September 6, 2017 at 9:54 a.m.

The White House took a firm stance on Tuesday in outlining why an immigration program created by President Barack Obama needs to be eliminated.

Man uses drone to smuggle methamphetamine from Mexico into California

August 19, 2017 at 8:52 p.m.

A 25-year-old U.S. citizen has been charged with using a drone to smuggle more than 13 pounds (5.9 kilograms) of methamphetamine from Mexico, an unusually large seizure for what is...

Homeland Security will waive laws to build U.S. border wall

August 2, 2017 at 12:34 a.m.

The Trump administration said Tuesday that it will waive environmental reviews and other laws to replace a stretch of border wall in San Diego, moving to make good on one...

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Contractor appeals delay Trump border wall prototypes

July 27, 2017 at 5:57 p.m.

The Trump administration said Thursday that prototypes for a proposed border wall with Mexico have been delayed until November because two companies have objected to the bidding process, dealing another...

Smugglers offer crammed big rigs as “VIP treatment” to U.S.

July 25, 2017 at 7:58 a.m.

When Thomas Homan, the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was awakened Sunday morning with news that migrants were found dead inside a sweltering tractor-trailer outside a San...

Charges shed light on sea cucumber smuggling at U.S. border

May 20, 2017 at 12:13 a.m.

Charges against a father-son partnership for allegedly smuggling more than $17 million worth of sea cucumbers to the United States and exporting them to Asia sheds light on a growing...

Contractors bidding to build Trump’s border wall brace for a 鈥渉ostile site鈥�

April 4, 2017 at 12:22 p.m.

One potential bidder on President Donald Trump's border wall with Mexico wanted to know if authorities would rush to help if workers came under "hostile attack." Another asked if employees...

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