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The Biden administration says it has identified more than 3,900 children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border under former President Donald Trump’s “zero-tolerance” policy on illegal crossings

An increasing number of American citizens have been apprehended as they have tried to smuggle illegal drugs into the U.S. since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

A San Diego grandfather is worried he may soon be deported for driving into the United States from Tijuana, Mexico, with two undocumented people who he said snuck into his van.

Another group of unaccompanied migrant children seeking asylum in the United States is expected Sunday in San Diego. They will be sheltered temporarily at the San Diego Convention Center before being reunited with family elsewhere in the country or moved into sponsor homes.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has transferred about 300 teenage girls who had arrived this month at the San Diego Convention Center to a facility in Texas to make room for younger children.

Nearly 70 migrant girls who are being housed at the San Diego Convention Center have tested positive for COVID-19, a HHS spokesperson said.

Hundreds of unaccompanied migrant children are expected to arrive in San Diego Saturday, the U.S. Health and Human Services confirmed Friday. The children will be taken to the Convention Center where they will be temporarily sheltered until they can be transported to safe housing elsewhere in the United States.

In President Joe Biden’s first formal White House news conference, he answered several questions about his administration’s immigration challenges. He stated that the current influx of migrants happen every year, that the vast majority of people coming to the border are being sent back, and that he’ll allow access to migrant facilities but is unclear on when.

Between January 2019 and October 2020, border patrol agents reported 969 breaches, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection records on reported breaches obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.

The number of migrant children and families seeking to cross the southwest border of the U.S. has surged to levels not seen since before the pandemic

One person has been arrested in connection with an alleged human smuggling attempt as authorities continue their search for dozens of migrants believed to have been trapped in a tanker truck.

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to stop expelling immigrant children who cross the southern border alone, halting a policy that has resulted in thousands of rapid deportations of minors during the coronavirus pandemic

A man was fatally shot Monday morning near the U.S.-Mexico border near San Ysidro, police confirmed to NBC 7’s sister station Telemundo 20.

Following news that restrictions among the U.S., Mexico and Canada borders would be extended until Nov. 21, immigration officials urged everyone to refrain from illegally crossing any border.

Two former U.S. health officials tell AP that Vice President Mike Pence in March directed the nation’s top disease control agency to use its emergency powers to effectively seal the borders against immigrants and asylum seekers over the objections of its scientists

A Nov. 13 sentencing date is scheduled for two brothers who smuggled three sisters across the U.S.-Mexico border, leading to the women’s deaths when a snowstorm struck as they traveled through the Laguna Mountains earlier this year. Cecilio and Ricardo Rios-Quinones, pleaded guilty Tuesday in San Diego federal court to charges of conspiracy, transportation of aliens resulting in death,...

Customs and Border Protection said it was implementing a new policy to reduce nonessential travel because of the spread of COVID-19.

Customs and Border Protection said it was implementing a new policy to reduce nonessential travel because of the spread of COVID-19.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced newly adopted measures that will be taken at the U.S.-Mexico border in an effort to curb non-essential travel during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.