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Three people wrapped in colorful comforters

48 hours along San Diego’s remote Jacumba border region

Borders

Growing numbers of people desperate to get to the United States are crossing through gaps in the border wall that divides Mexico and California. US Customs and Border Patrol is overwhelmed. Several inewsource reporters spent 48 straight hours in and around the encampments near the Jacumba Hot Springs to watch how the journey unfolds.

US-Mexico border Nogales

Tensions at the US southern border are putting scientists and their work at risk

Borders
U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, standing near Rep. Joaquin Castro, speaks to the news media after she and other members of Congress toured two Border patrol stations.

Rep. Judy Chu: CBP agents ‘must be held accountable’ for secret Facebook group

Borders
A man and a woman fill out forms with Mexican passports in the frame

Nixon and Reagan tried closing the border to pressure Mexico — here’s what happened

Immigration
Migrants from Central America are seen escorted by US. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials after crossing the border from Mexico to surrender to the officials in El Paso, Texas in this pictured taken from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

In El Paso, a border city grows uneasy over shutdown

Immigration
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President Trump speaks at a podium while 3 bald men stand behind him.

Have ‘17,000 criminals’ really been apprehended at the US-Mexico border?

Immigration

President Donald Trump said Thursday that border agents had “apprehended, last year, 17,000 criminals trying to get across the border.” But that’s only partially true.

Through a hole in a metallic border wall, two Border Patrol agents visible.

Guatemalan boy, 8, is second migrant child to die in US custody

Immigration

The boy and his father were in US custody on Dec. 24 when the child showed signs of illness. He was diagnosed with a common cold at a New Mexico hospital. Shortly after midnight, he died.

A man wearing a Santa Claus costume arrives in a pickup truck in El Paso, Texas.

In this Texas border town, Santa patrols on Christmas

Immigration

In El Paso’s Chihuahuita neighborhood, where border security is an everyday concern, Border Patrol agents break barriers and build community with an annual Santa Claus visit tradition.

A small girl in a t-shirt with bare legs and feet cries she and her mother run up a dirt hill.

Mexico calls for ‘full investigation’ of US tear gas used at border

Immigration

US government agencies defended the use of tear gas at the San Ysidro crossing south of San Diego, California, on Sunday. News images showing children fleeing prompted sharp criticism from some lawmakers and charities.

Miguel Paiz Domingo sits on the cement tomb of his son, Misael Paiz.

Misael Paiz, 25, dies in the desert after a 2,000 mile trek from his small village in Guatemala

Immigration

Joselino Gomez Esteban and his nephew, Misael Paiz, from Guatemala left their small village in search of work and a better life. When they reached the scorching hot Sonoran Desert in Arizona, Paiz fell ill and his uncle called 911 for help. But Paiz died before Tucson Border Patrol agents could find them.

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