By Molly Bilker Despite heated political rhetoric about the U.S.-Mexico border, people who live in the region largely view themselves as one community, believe in making it easier to cross back and forth and do not favor building a new wall, according to a Cronkite News-Univision News-Dallas Morning News poll. The poll is the first of its kind in more than 15 years and reflects the attitudes of nearly 1,500 respondents in 14 U.S. and Mexican cities from California to Texas. Continue reading

  By Aaron Nelsen McALLEN — A controversial program that targets unauthorized immigrants for criminal prosecution has clogged border courts, cost billions to imprison them, and torn apart tens of thousands of families while doing little to deter illegal immigration, according to a new report published Wednesday by Grassroots Leadership and Justice Strategies. Continue reading

By Erik Lee & Rick Van Schoik The opening of the Pedestrian West port of entry in San Ysidro this week reminds us that the actual look and feel of the U.S.-Mexico border is finally changing. And these changes are long overdue. Dated, non-user-friendly and even unsafe infrastructure at our shared border with Mexico has contributed greatly to the border’s poor image in the United States, Mexico and beyond.     Continue reading

  By Nick Visser Republican Party officials drafting the GOP platform have voted to include presumptive nominee Donald Trump’s plans to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, less than a week before the party’s convention. Continue reading

  By Sophia Kunthara | Cronkite News WASHINGTON – ACLU attorneys from Southwest border states said Tuesday that a lack of reporting on stops by Customs and Border Protection officers opens the door to police abuse and makes it difficult to hold officers accountable for their actions Continue reading

  By  Rob O'Dell Customs and Border Protection Commissioner R. Gil Kerlikowske will retire in December, he revealed toThe Arizona Republic during an interview in Phoenix on Monday. Continue reading

  By Andrew Becker As the first outsider appointed to run the Border Patrol in its 92-year history, former FBI official Mark Morgan starts his new job this week as chief with a target on his back. Continue reading

  By Daniel Wheaton A new database by Texas Tribune and Reveal News compiles 140 corruption cases at U.S. Customs and Border Protection, many of which involved bribes and the smuggling of immigrants. Continue reading

  By Arizona Daily The "beautiful wall" Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump envisions would be 35 to 40 feet tall and 1,000 miles long, covering roughly half of the U.S.-Mexico border. Along the rest, natural barriers like rivers and mountains would continue to divide the two countries. Continue reading

  CALEXICO, Calif. – The man lay face down in the desert, less than a mile north of the Mexican border. He had been crawling, dragging himself through the dirt, when he died. A border patrol agent had been tracking a group of undocumented immigrants through the area when he stumbled upon the decomposing body. It had been lying there maybe a month, during which time temperatures had topped 108. Continue reading