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The recent graduation ceremony for the Border Patrol's processing coordinator program. The people in these new positions will be assigned to work inside stations to care for individuals whom Border Patrol agents apprehend.
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The Border Patrol's New Migrant Child Care Cadre

Apr 06, 2021
An overwhelmed Border Patrol realized it did not have enough officers trained to care for vulnerable detainees in its custody, so it created a new position: processing coordinator.
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Politics
In this file photo, young migrants, whose faces cannot be shown, sit inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Facility in Tucson, Arizona.
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Hundreds Of Migrant Children Held In Border Detention For More Than 10 Days

Mar 18, 2021
More than 500 migrant children have spent more than 240 hours in the jail-like detention centers at the border as of Thursday, according to a DHS document obtained by NPR.
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The Coronavirus Crisis
People walk back and forth across the border between the U.S. and Canada in Peace Arch Park in Blaine, Wash., on May 17. With the border closed to nonessential travel amid the global pandemic, families and couples across the continent found themselves cu
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The Pandemic Closed The Border And This Engaged Couple Was Stuck On Opposite Sides

Jun 14, 2020
When COVID-19 caused border closures, a woman from British Columbia and her fiancé in Washington state were unable to see each other — not even for their wedding.
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The Coronavirus Crisis
Madawaska-Edmundston International Bridge connects Madawaska, Maine and Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada. With visits from Canadian customers having evaporated, many businesses in Madawaska, including gas stations and convenience stores, have been hit h
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Travel Restrictions On Canadian Border Cut Back-And-Forth For Families, Businesses

May 28, 2020
Since March, the U.S. has blocked nonessential travel along the U.S.-Canada border to limit the spread of COVID-19. But in northern Maine, the move cut off many longstanding social and economic ties.
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The Coronavirus Crisis
Gateway to the Americas Bridge connecting Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, has been nearly empty. On a normal day, about 10,000 people cross from Nuevo Laredo into Laredo. This week, it's barely a trickle.
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Life On The U.S.-Mexico Frontier Dramatically Altered By Partial Border Shutdown

Mar 28, 2020
The coronavirus outbreak led President Trump to close U.S. borders with Canada and Mexico last week. At the southern border, the closure is affecting life on both the U.S. and Mexico sides.
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Central American migrants, sent from the United States, walk out in the streets of Guatemala City after arriving at the airport on Feb. 13, 2020. When asylum-seekers land in Guatemala, they are processed by immigration and asked if they want to stay in G
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Asylum-Seekers Reaching U.S. Border Are Being Flown To Guatemala

Mar 11, 2020
Hundreds of asylum-seekers are not getting a chance to make their case in U.S. immigration court. Instead, the migrants are put on planes to Guatemala and told to ask for asylum there.
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A white-tailed deer emerges from the brush. The Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge has some of the richest biological diversity in North America--with 1,200 plants, 300 butterflies, and 700 vertebrates, of which 520 are birds.
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Border Wall Threatens National Wildlife Refuge That's Been 40 Years In The Making

Jan 14, 2020
Construction of the Trump administration's border wall has been slowed by difficulties acquiring private land, so the government is prioritizing construction inside federal nature sanctuaries.
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National
These spotlights are part of a binational art installation that aims to connect people on both sides of the Rio Grande.
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Interactive Art Installation Lets Strangers Talk To Each Other Across The Border

Nov 22, 2019
Searchlights illuminate the sky between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, but they have nothing to do with border enforcement. They're part of a large-scale binational art installation.
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A motion triggered camera is mounted to a tree pointed toward a soft border crossing on the Haskell Free Library & Opera House, which is bisected by the border.
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U.S.-Canada Border Community's Culture Changes As Security Tightens

Nov 21, 2019
While the wall and asylum-seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border have drawn a lot of attention, heightened security at the northern border has changed the character of the once-neighborly frontier.
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Cars line up to head into the United States (left) and into Canada (right) adjacent to Boundary Bay at a border crossing at Blaine, Wash., in 2009. A British couple who say they accidentally crossed the U.S.-Canada border were arrested by U.S. Customs an
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British Family Detained By ICE After Unlawfully Entering U.S. From Canada

Oct 15, 2019
Eileen and David Connors say they accidentally crossed the U.S.-Canada border while vacationing. The couple and their 3-month-old son have been in a federal immigration facility since Oct. 3.
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A youth stands Sunday by the border fence that separates Mexico from the U.S., where candles and crosses stand in memory of the father and daughter who died during their journey toward the U.S.
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Border Community Remembers A Father And Daughter Who Drowned Crossing The Rio Grande

Jul 01, 2019
On Sunday evening, vigils took place in border towns to remember a father and daughter who died last week attempting to cross over to the United States rather than waiting in migrant camps in Mexico.
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Maria Ochoa poses by the Arizona-Mexico border wall, south of Tucson, Ariz.
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1st-Generation Mexican American Attempts To Save Migrant Lives In The Arizona Desert

Jun 21, 2019
Maria Ochoa, 70, looks out for the well-being of migrants crossing into the Arizona desert from Mexico. At StoryCorps, she talks about her experiences helping people at the border.
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William Linares, a 5-year-old from Honduras, plays in an encampment where he is living near the international bridge in Matamoros, Mexico, on April 30. The boy is traveling with his mother, Suanny Gomez, and seeking asylum in the United States.
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As The Line Into America Slows, Communities Form, And Wait, On The Mexican Side

Jun 03, 2019
U.S. border officials strictly limit the number of asylum seekers they allow to legally cross ports of entry every day, creating an enormous backlog of migrants in places like Matamoros.
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Politics
President Trump tours a portion of the border wall between the United States and Mexico in Calexico, Calif., last month.
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Trump To Outline Immigration Plan That Would Overhaul Who Is Allowed Into The U.S.

May 15, 2019
A key plank of the president's election was his hard-line stance on immigration. And now he is ready to roll out his legislative approach.
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National
Victor Santana mans a row of port-a-potties near the Bridge of the Americas separating Juárez from El Paso. Disruptions at the border have caused long wait times at the border. Ciudad Juárez is offering free bathrooms for travelers stuck in those long
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Tension And Anxiety In Border Cities After Trump Threatens Closure

Apr 06, 2019
President Trump has since backed off his threat, but as border officials scramble to deal with an unprecedented flow of migrants, there are disruptions at the border and increasingly long wait times.
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Irsi Castillo of Honduras holds her 3-year-old daughter just after crossing the Rio Grande into the U.S. at El Paso, Texas. Castillo is one in the surge of thousands of migrants claiming asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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With Thousands Of Migrants Crossing The Border Daily, We Asked 'Why Now?'

Mar 21, 2019
Three possible factors account for the surge of migrants at the border: economics, social media and the Trump administration's own tougher immigration policies.
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National
In 2017 the Trump Administration put up eight border wall prototypes to demonstrate the "next generation" of border barriers. On Wednesday, all but one were demolished.
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WATCH: Border Wall Prototypes Destroyed, Making Way For New Fencing

Feb 27, 2019
Eight steel-and-concrete mock-ups of border wall prototypes were put up near the San Diego-Tijuana border in 2017. They were supposed to represent the "next generation" of border barriers.
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National
A young man and a little girl look at the border fence from Playas de Tijuana, Mexico. Photojournalist Ariana Drehsler has been covering the caravan of migrants for weeks. In December, Customs and Border Protection agents began pulling her over for quest
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Journalists, Lawyers, Volunteers Face Increased Scrutiny By Border Agents

Feb 15, 2019
At the San Diego-Tijuana border, journalists covering the asylum-seekers are being pulled into questioning by customs and border agents. Lawyers and volunteers are facing the same scrutiny.
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National
Nearly 1,600 teenage migrants are housed at a temporary emergency shelter in Florida run by a for-profit company.
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Inside The Largest And Most Controversial Shelter For Migrant Children In The U.S.

Feb 13, 2019
A temporary shelter has been contracted south of Miami to house more than 2,000 migrant children. It is the nation's only corporate, for-profit migrant youth shelter.
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National Security
Members of the U.S. military install multiple tiers of concertina wire along the banks of the Rio Grande near the Juarez-Lincoln Bridge at the U.S.-Mexico border in Laredo, Texas, in November.
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Pentagon Deploying 3,750 Troops To Southern Border

Feb 04, 2019
U.S. service members will install wire barriers and help monitor the border. However, some in Congress have questioned whether it's a good use of active-duty troops.
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News
Migrants run as tear gas is thrown by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents to the Mexican side of the border fence after they climbed the fence to get to San Diego from Tijuana, Mexico.
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U.S. Agents Fire Tear Gas At Migrants Trying To Cross Mexico Border

Jan 01, 2019
U.S. Customs and Border Protection authorities say they fired tear gas to deter about 150 Central American migrants from climbing over or under the U.S.-Mexico border fence into California.
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National
People line up to cross into the United States from Tijuana, Mexico, seen through barriers topped with concertina wire at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Diego. A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the administration from enforcing a ban on asylum-se
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Another Legal Setback To The Trump Administration's Effort To Crack Down On Asylum

Dec 19, 2018
In June, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a ban on asylum-seekers fleeing gang violence or domestic abuse. A federal judge on Wednesday blocked that ban, saying it had "no legal basis."
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National Security
Members of the 89th Military Police and 541st Engineering Company, 19th Engineering Battalion at Fort Knox, Ky., are briefed upon arrival Wednesday at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. They are among some 7,000 troops deploying to the U.S.-Mexican border.
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5 Questions About Rocks And Guns

Nov 02, 2018
Asked on Thursday if active duty soldiers being sent to the border with Mexico would fire on migrants who throw rocks, Trump said he hoped not. On Friday, he said soldiers would arrest them instead.
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World
Thousands of migrants attempted to cross the border from Guatemala into Mexico this week. Many of the migrants have reportedly returned to their home countries of Honduras and Guatemala.
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As Border Restrictions Tighten, Some Experts See Migrant Caravans Growing In Size

Oct 20, 2018
Mexico has begun allowing members of a mass migrant caravan to cross its border, following violent clashes between the migrants and Mexican police on Friday.
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National
People demonstrate in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, demanding an end to the separation of migrant children from their parents. On Friday, the Justice Department said in a court filing that "the government will not separate families but detain families t
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Trump Administration: Migrant Families Can Be Detained For More Than 20 Days

Jun 29, 2018
Now that a judge has ordered a stop to separating families, the Justice Department says it can hold families caught illegally crossing the border until their immigration proceedings are resolved.

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