A new level of despair spread among tens of thousands of migrants waiting on the Mexican border to seek refuge in the U.S. as the Trump administration began enforcing radical new restrictions on who qualifies for asylum.
The policy is meant to deny asylum to anyone who passes through another country on the way to the U.S. without seeking protection there.
On a dirt road past rows of date trees, just feet from a dry section of Colorado River, a small construction crew is putting up a towering border wall that the government hopes will reduce — for good — the flow of immigrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.
The Trump administration is ready to open a tent court on the border to help handle tens of thousands of cases of asylum seekers forced to wait in Mexico, with hearings held entirely by videoconference.
Construction on a Pentagon-funded portion of border fence began the first week of September 2019 near Yuma, Arizona, just as federal officials revealed a list of Defense Department projects that will be cut to pay for President Donald Trump's wall.
A national provider of shelters for immigrant children has reopened one of two Arizona facilities it was forced to shutter because of issues with employee background checks.
Schools, target ranges and maintenance facilities are among $3.6 billion in military base projects to be cut by President Donald Trump to pay for 175 miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Migrant children who were separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border last year suffered post-traumatic stress and other serious mental health problems, according to a government watchdog report.
The governor of lllinois said he's erased the drug conviction of an Army veteran who was deported to Mexico in 2018, a step that the man's supporters hope will help him return to the U.S.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officers can now create fictitious social media accounts to monitor information on foreigners seeking visas, green cards and citizenship.
The House Oversight and Reform Committee is objecting to the Trump administration's decision to block committee staffers from conducting additional visits to detention facilities.
Ismail Ajjawi said he was detained for eight hours and questioned about his friends' social media posts.
The fake story of two undocumented immigrants burglarizing a home and being killed by a little girl with a shotgun is more than a decade old.
A spurious quote attributed to actor/comedian Tim Allen was shared by one of President Donald Trump's sons.
Memes comparing Tanya McDowell to various school-related criminal cases surface frequently.
Digital editing can create some surreal looking scenes.
Public Policy Polling found that a surprising percentage of voters advocated attacking a non-existent city from a Disney film.