'Don't go!': Migrant boy screams after being abandoned along US-Mexico border, video shows
A video shows a migrant boy screaming "don't go" after being left alone at the U.S.-Mexico border.
More than 18,000 unaccompanied children were in CBP custody or HHS care on March 31, data shows
A historic monthly high of more than 18,000 unaccompanied children were held in U.S. custody or care along the southern border with Mexico on March 31, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection shared with FOX Television stations.
Biden aims to prevent spike in border crossings from swamping agenda
The Biden administration is scrambling to manage a growing humanitarian and political challenge at the U.S.-Mexico border that threatens to overshadow its ambitious legislative agenda.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says border under control despite surge in migrants
A surge of migrants on the Southwest border has the Biden administration on the defensive, with the head of Homeland Security acknowledging the depth of the problem Tuesday but insisting it’s under control and saying he won’t revive a Trump-era practice of immediately expelling teens and children.
SUV in crash where 13 died came through hole in border fence
The Border Patrol says 13 people killed in a Southern California crash were among more than 40 migrants who entered the U.S. through a hole cut into the border fence with Mexico.
US reopens Texas surge facility to hold immigrant teenagers
The Biden administration has reopened a tent facility to house up to 700 immigrant teenagers after they cross the U.S.-Mexico border unaccompanied by a parent.
Customs inspectors intercept more than 40 pounds of 'cocaine-soaked' corn flakes
Customs authorities in Ohio say they intercepted a shipment of cereal earlier this month with a special frosting — cocaine.
Trump officials tout progress on border wall before election
Top Trump administration officials visited Texas five days before Election Day to announce they have nearly completed 400 miles of U.S.-Mexico border wall, trying to show progress on perhaps the president's best-known campaign promise four years ago.
Judge urges US to help find parents deported without kids
A court filing revealed this week that researchers have been unable to track down the parents of 545 children.
US PPE supply chains failed, and COVID-19 deaths followed
From the very moment the pandemic reached America’s shores, the country was unprepared.
VP Pence ordered borders closed after CDC experts refused: report
The vice president, who had taken over the Trump administration’s response to the growing pandemic, called Dr. Robert Redfield, the CDC’s director, and told him to use the agency’s special legal authority in a pandemic anyway.
Hurricane Sally makes landfall near Alabama as a Category 2 storm
Hurricane Sally made landfall Wednesday near Gulf Shores, Alabama, as a Category 2 storm, pushing a surge of ocean water onto the coast and dumping torrential rain that forecasters said would cause dangerous flooding from the Florida Panhandle to Mississippi and well inland in the days ahead.
Supreme Court denies request to halt construction of the border wall
A number of groups, including the ACLU and Sierra Club, had asked the high court to get involved again after the justices last year cleared the way for the administration to use military funds for construction while the case played out in the courts.
Trump to transfer $3.8B from military to fund his border wall
It turns out Mexico won't be paying for the wall after all.
Agents seize almost $1M in counterfeit cash, all in $1 bills
Federal border patrol agents seized $900,000 in counterfeit cash -- all in the form of $1 bills.
U.S. Border Patrol begins collection of DNA samples
The U.S. Border Patrol has started collecting DNA samples of people in custody at the border.
Calif. border agents find 11 Chinese nationals hiding in appliances, furniture in truck from Mexico
Federal agents in California found 11 Chinese nationals hiding inside appliances and furniture that filled a moving truck crossing the border from Mexico over the weekend.
Report: Guatemalan teen who died in US custody was unresponsive for hours
A flu-ridden 16-year-old boy from Guatemala was unresponsive for hours before he was found dead, according to video footage released Thursday.