World & Nation
A federal appeals court has ruled that Border Patrol agents cannot cut razor wire that Texas installed on the U.S.-Mexico border in the town of Eagle Pass.
Texas is offering a parcel of rural ranchland along the U.S.-Mexico border to use as a staging area for potential mass deportations under Trump.
California
Authorities at the Otay Mesa commercial facility in San Diego County found 1,220 packages of methamphetamine, wrapped in paper and painted green to mimic a watermelon.
Some said they hoped to make it to the U.S. before November’s elections, because they fear if Donald Trump wins he will close the border to asylum seekers.
Opinion
Because so many migrants wish to be unseen, many humanitarian border issues are easily ignored. But mass suffering is occurring.
CBP One app: Migrants in Mexico’s southern states can apply for appointments to seek U.S. asylum instead of heading closer to the northern border.
The diplomatic dustup comes amid threats from President-elect Donald Trump to impose tariffs, deploy U.S. troops to go after cartels and conduct mass deportations.
Hannah Kobayashi, who disappeared after missing her connecting flight at LAX, says she didn’t learn of the media coverage until she returned from Mexico.
Botanists and citizen scientists armed with the iNaturalist app on their smartphones are recording the biodiversity along the U.S.-Mexico border.
President Biden on Thursday said he hoped Trump would rethink his plan to impose tariffs, saying it could “screw up” relationships with close allies.