Border and Immigration

Latino Republicans push back on party's immigration agenda
The GOP’s dominance of Florida’s 27th congressional district is emblematic of the party’s inroads with Latino voters in recent years in much of the U.S. Those gains helped Gov. Ron DeSantis...
By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON
Video shows alleged teen trafficker fleeing state trooper
By Marc Duvoisin
Human remains found after dog brings home skull, police say
By Gabriella Ybarra
More eggs are being smuggled from Mexico as prices soar
By Shepard Price
Court: Travis judges can’t hear appeals in Kinney migrant cases
By Jolie McCullough

Amelia Sopón, 42, grandmother of Marleny, grieves the death of her granddaughter by a small shrine at her home in El Reparo, Guatemala.

Convinced a better life awaited them in the U.S., they set out from remote Guatemalan villages. They entrusted their fate to smugglers. In the dense brush near the Rio Grande, something went terribly wrong.

By Silvia Foster-Frau and Dudley Althaus

How Biden asylum rule affects immigration, compares to Trump
President Joe Biden’s administration is preparing a new rule for asylum seekers. It will generally deny asylum to migrants who show up at the U.S. southern border without first seeking protection...
By REBECCA SANTANA
Mexican president hopes ex security chief will turn informer
Border, Bidens, COVID: House GOP casts wide net in probes
By LISA MASCARO and FARNOUSH AMIRI
Migrants seeking US sponsors find questionable offers online
By ANITA SNOW
Appeals court orders another review of revised 'DACA'
By KEVIN McGILL

BORDER WALL

Hundreds of miles funded, 5 new miles built

The Trump administration has set aside $15 billion for more than 700 miles of new border walls. Less than 300 miles have been built, and only 5 miles of new fencing where none existed before.

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Escobar, 25, right, and Lisbeiry Arguetta, 24, are both from San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Escobar won her asylum claim earlier this year after four months in detention. Arguetta was released on parole, and is still waiting for her day in court.

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‘Slam dunk’ asylums

Scarred by brutal beatings, hundreds of transgender migrants have been detained at the border, spurring ICE to create a special unit southwest of San Antonio where a drag show lightened a uniquely perilous situation.

By Silvia Foster-Frau

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