Photos: Migrants rush across US border in final hours before pandemic rule expires
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Clasping exhausted children, desperate migrants tried to make their way to the United States before the end of the pandemic-era health rule known as Title 42.
In Texas, members of the National Guard were deployed to the Mexico border as part of their state's response to the rush, bearing guns as migrants came with dozing children, and clothes soaked by crossing the Rio Grande.
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Migrants hunched over cellphones trying to access the appointment app that is a centerpiece of new asylum measures.
Experts say that while migration laws are changing, root causes pushing people to flee their countries in record numbers only stretch on.
U.S. immigration officials say an 8-year-old girl who died last week in Border Patrol custody was seen at least three times by medical personnel on the day of her death.
A federal appeals court has ruled that a U.S. deportation law that fueled family separations at the southern border is “neutral as to race,” striking down an unprecedented Nevada ruling that had determined it was racist and unconstitutional.
Asylum-seekers say joy over the end of the public health restriction known as Title 42 this month is turning into anguish with the realization of how the Biden administration’s new rules affect them.
A new Biden administration policy is dramatically lowering the percentage of migrants at the southern border who enter the United States and are allowed to apply for asylum, a new analysis finds.
As the Biden administration prepared to launch speedy asylum screenings at the border this spring, authorities pledged a key difference from a Trump-era version of the policy: Migrants would be guaranteed access to legal representation.
The Justice Department told Texas that a floating barrier of wrecking ball-sized buoys the state put on the Rio Grande violates federal law.
Humanitarian groups started placing water in spots on the border after authorities found bodies of those who died in the harsh conditions.
A federal judge is questioning whether living in poverty would be enough to qualify someone for a key immigration policy from President Joe Biden.
Smugglers are suddenly steering migrants through some of the most desolate and dangerous areas of the Arizona borderlands, forcing them to walk for miles in scorching heat and sending rescues soaring.
As the U.S. government built its latest stretch of border wall, Mexico made a statement of its own by laying remains of the Berlin Wall a few steps away.
The first day of school is providing challenges for major U.S. cities that are struggling with the influx of tens of thousands of migrants.
Under intense political pressure from fellow Democrats, the Biden administration says it is granting temporary legal status to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who are already in the country.
Mexico's rail issues reveal a larger phenomenon: A nearly unbroken chain of migrants being shuffled from Colombia to the U.S. on an industrial scale that could approach 500,000 this year.
It took weeks for a Venezuela man and his beloved squirrel to migrate from Venezuela toward the U.S. Now it’s likely he will have to leave Niko behind.
A group of about 5,000 mostly Venezuelan migrants hoping to make it to the U.S. spent three days in the Mexican town of Irapuato waiting for a train that many in the group worried would never come. The train finally came Saturday.
Biden faces more criticism about the US-Mexico border, one of his biggest problems heading into 2024
The Biden administration recently took actions seen by many as moving to the right on immigration.
Deportation flights of Venezuelans from the U.S. resumed Wednesday with a first plane of more than 100 migrants landing back in their economically troubled country.
It's not clear that roughly $14 billion in border funds in the $106 billion spending package will placate those in Congress who are resisting.
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday approved sweeping new powers that allow police to arrest migrants who illegally cross the U.S. border and give local judges authority to order them to leave the country, testing the limits of how far a state can go to enforce immigration laws.
Millions of migrants have arrived in the U.S. in recent years, many in cities and counties across America. After an arduous journey, they face the next challenges of finding enough work and a roof to sleep under and can often feel alone.
The Venezuelan diaspora and resulting deportation flights are among the most vexing migration challenges facing U.S. officials when they meet Mexico’s president to discuss unprecedented arrivals at the border.
