LA County agrees to pay $14M after sheriff holds immigrants in jail past release dates

The lawsuit alleged that between 2010 and 2014, the Sheriff’s Department routinely held people in jail for days, weeks or even months beyond the dates of their release and refused to allow them to post bail solely because of immigration detention requests from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

ICE arrests more than 100 people across California's sanctuary cities

The "sanctuary op" was immediately criticized by immigrant rights activists and Democrats as a fear-mongering publicity stunt and a dangerous move in light of putting more people in detention during the coronavirus pandemic. 

Arizona family speaks out after scary robbery during Mexico trip

The Davis family, who is from Mesa, has been heading to Rocky Point for years, and they have never felt unsafe, until now.

VP Pence ordered borders closed after CDC experts refused: report

The vice president, who had taken over the Trump administration’s response to the growing pandemic, called Dr. Robert Redfield, the CDC’s director, and told him to use the agency’s special legal authority in a pandemic anyway.

40 miles of new border wall to be built in Texas

U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced that it has awarded two contracts to build roughly 40 miles of new border walls in Webb County, Texas.

Border Patrol agent stabbed, suspect killed near Nogales

According to officials, an agent on foot stopped a group of suspected undocumented immigrants east of Nogales and one of those people stabbed the agent several times. The agent shot and killed the suspect after being stabbed.

Mexican man with dehydration symptoms dies in Arizona

Border Patrol officials said the man died at the hospital after doctors were unable to resuscitate him.

Border Patrol arrests nearly 50 undocumented immigrants in Phoenix

Helicopter video showed dozens of people being lined up in an alleyway and taken into white vans near 27th Avenue and Indian School Road.

Nurse questions medical care at immigration jail in Georgia

An immigration detention center in Georgia performed questionable hysterectomies, refused to test detainees for COVID-19 and shredded medical records, according to a nurse quoted in a complaint filed Monday. 

Mexican cartels are finding more unusual ways to smuggle the drugs, Customs and Border Protection officers say

Officers say meth seizures have nearly doubled this year; criminals are getting more creative in the ways they smuggle drugs across the border and fear the problem will only get worse. FOX's Stephanie Bennett reports.

Judge to order US to stop detaining migrant kids in hotels

A federal judge said Friday that she would order the Trump administration to stop detaining immigrant children in hotels before expelling them from the United States, a policy enacted during the coronavirus pandemic.

Border Patrol agents find missing Texas girl at checkpoint

U.S. Border Patrol agents found a missing girl out of Odessa, Texas in a tractor-trailer at a checkpoint in Laredo.