Photo: Retired schoolteacher Tom Wingo, of Samaritans Without Borders, walks on the Roosevelt Easement picking up trash along the border fence as a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent patrols the area, Aug. 29, 2023, in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument near Lukeville, Ariz. A Texas border crossing was closed to vehicles Monday, and traffic
Photo: Migrants charge and use their phones in a parking lot set up to help people with travel plans, accommodation, food and shelter, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023, in San Diego Over five years, the largest U.S. city on the Mexican border developed a well-oiled system to shelter asylum-seekers. That system is being tested like never
Photo: Migrants who crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico are lined up for processing by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Sept. 23, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas The Biden administration is expected to keep the cap on refugees admitted to the country at 125,000 for the next fiscal year, which begins
Photo: Migrants who crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico to the U.S. work their way through concertina wire Waiting three weeks and counting to cross into Texas, Lila sat in a shelter on the Mexico border Friday feeling trapped: The cartels make it too dangerous to turn around and the U.S. government offers no guarantees
Photo: From left, Yuma County Supervisor Jonathan Lines, New York City Council member Joe Borelli and American Immigration Council policy director Aaron Reichlin-Melnick testified on the impact immigration is having on local governments’ services. (Photo by Adrienne Washington/Cronkite News) Yuma County cannot continue to bear the cost of caring for immigrants that are flooding across
Photo: Asylum-seekers wait in a makeshift camp after crossing the nearby border with Mexico A group of migrants from China surrendered to a Border Patrol agent in remote Southern California as gusts of wind drowned the hum of high-voltage power lines, joining others from Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia and elsewhere in a desert campsite with shelters