U.S.-Mexico border

House Republican leader McCarthy threatens to impeach DHS Secretary Mayorkas over border

By Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press

McCarthy is positioned to become the new House speaker when the new Congress convenes in January. He said the Republican majority will use "the power of the purse and the power of the subpoena" to hold President Joe Biden's administration…

Venezuelan migrants expelled from U.S. under new policy decide next steps in Mexico

By Fabiola Sanchez, Associated Press

U.S. authorities expelled about 1,700 Venezuelans to Mexico in the past week under a deal between the two nations to deny Venezuelans the right to U.S. asylum and try to keep them from coming to the border.

U.S. government orders Arizona to remove border shipping containers

By Anita Snow, Associated Press

The Cocopah Indian Tribe is welcoming the federal government's call for the state of Arizona to remove a series of double-stacked shipping containers that are filling gaps in the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Officials find bodies of 9 migrants who died trying to cross Rio Grande into Texas

Officials on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border searched for more victims Saturday after at least nine migrants died while trying to cross the rain-swollen Rio Grande river, a dangerous border-crossing attempt in an area where the water level had risen…

Pecan farmers on Texas border get caught in immigration enforcement battle

By Acacia Coronado, Associated Press

A Texas pecan farm nearly the size of Disneyland has become entangled in a turf war between the Biden administration and Republican Gov. Greg Abbott over immigration enforcement on the southern border.

How a Trump-era policy that separated thousands of migrant families came to pass

The Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy separated over 5,000 children from their parents, with no tracking process or records that would allow them to be reunited. Atlantic staff writer Caitlin Dickerson joins Geoff Bennett to discuss her investigation into…

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Arizona plans to use shipping containers to fill border wall gaps

The move by Arizona comes without explicit permission on federal land, with state contractors starting to move in 60-foot-long shipping containers and stacking two of the 9-foot-tall containers on top of each other early Friday.

Wait lists at U.S. border frustrate, confuse asylum seekers

By Elliot Spagat, Associated Press

Opaque waiting lists for asylum-seekers to enter the United States at the Mexico border have carried over from the Trump administration, frustrating many migrants to the point that they cross illegally.

WATCH: Report finds ‘unnecessary’ force by Border Patrol agents at Rio Grande

By Will Weissert, Associated Press

Border Patrol agents on horseback engaged in "unnecessary use of force" against non-threatening Haitian immigrants but didn't whip any with their reins, according to a federal investigation of chaotic scenes along the Texas-Mexico border last fall.

Texas governor authorizes state forces to return migrants to border

By Paul J. Weber, Associated Press

Abbott on Thursday authorized state forces to apprehend migrants and return them to the U.S.-Mexico border, pushing the boundaries of their enforcement powers and the Republican's escalating efforts to curb the rising number of crossings.