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WATCH: Senate hearing on emergency funding for border security

By Joshua Barajas

McAleenan will testify before a Senate subcommittee at 10 a.m. ET today. Watch his remarks here.

DHS chief says White House will ask for more border funds

By Associated Press

Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan says the department is running out of money amid the crush of migrants crossing the Southern border. He says the White House will send a supplemental request for more funds.

Mexico’s crackdown forces migrants to more dangerous routes

By Sonia Perez D., Mark Stevenson, Associated Press

For months, Central Americans have banded together in caravans and employed a 'safety in numbers' strategy, although efforts to discourage the large groups now have migrants wandering woods, swamps and rail lines in small bands of one or two dozen,…

Migrants anxious after Mexican authorities raid caravan

By Sonia Perez D., Associated Press

Central American migrants hoping to reach the U.S. are finding a much tougher trek than those in previous caravans, meeting unwelcoming townsfolk and a surprise raid by Mexican police and immigration agents who detained hundreds in Mexico's south.

‘Our country is full’: Trump says migrants straining immigration system

By Zeke Miller, Jonathan Lemire, Associated Press

Trump, as he so often does, mixed fact with fiction when warning of the threat at the border.

Trump drops border shutdown threat and proposes auto tariffs

By Jill Colvin, Associated Press

Abandoning his threat to immediately seal the southern border, President Donald Trump warned instead that he'd slap tariffs on cars coming to the U.S. from Mexico unless the Mexicans do more to stop the flow of migrants and drugs to…

Thousands of U.S. border inspectors may be reassigned to triage migrant surge

By Cedar Attanasio, Associated Press

The temporary reassignments threaten to slow the movement of trucks bringing TVs, medical devices and other goods into the U.S. and cause delays for cross-border commuters who come for work or school.

Government kept tabs on journalists, ‘instigators’

By Associated Press

The U.S. government kept a database on journalists, activists, organizers and "instigators" during an investigation into last year's migrant caravan from Mexico, infuriating civil liberties and media groups.

Guidelines ask agents to target Spanish speakers at border

By Elliot Spagat, Associated Press

Border agents have been told to explicitly target Spanish speakers and migrants from Latin America in carrying out a Trump administration program requiring asylum seekers wait in Mexico, according to memos obtained by The Associated Press.

4 senators push resolution to halt Trump’s border emergency

By Alan Fram, David Sharp, Associated Press

A small bipartisan group of senators planned to introduce a resolution Thursday aimed at blocking President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency to finance additional miles of barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border.