The Latest Breaking News from Homeland Security

Florida Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar and Texas Democrat Rep. Veronica Escobar have teamed up on a sprawling immigration bill.

Migrant encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border have dropped 70% since border restrictions under a COVID-era policy called Title 42 expired last week, Homeland Security official Blas Nunez-Neto said on Friday.

Border agents have reported a decrease in contacts with migrants crossing the southwest border since Title 42 ended.

The Pascua Yaqui Tribe has drafted regulations in an effort to formalize the border-crossing process for their relatives in Mexico coming to their reservation in Arizona

‘We knew this was going to be a difficult transition,’ Homeland Security secretary says

Pandemic-related asylum restrictions that expelled migrants millions of times have ended in a shift that threatens to put a historic strain on the nation’s beleaguered immigration system

More than 27,000 people are in federal custody. And an official says daily encounters hit 10,000, slightly below the upper limit of 11,000 expected after Title 42 ends.

As pandemic-era asylum restrictions ended early Friday, migrants in northern Mexico faced more uncertainties about a new online system for appointments to seek asylum in the U.S. Some migrants still waded apprehensively into the Rio Grande, defying officials who shouted for them to turn back, while elsewhere along the U.S.-Mexico…

The Secure the Border Act would resume construction of the border wall, limit asylum eligibility and require asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico. It faces tough going in the Senate.

Title 42, a Trump-era policy which expelled most migrants under a little-used public health authority, expires at 11.59 pm

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday blamed Congress for failing to provide sufficient resources to manage the border.