The Latest Breaking News from Pedro Rios

Photos, Video, Protests — Homeland Security Tightens Rule on Anti-ICE Activities

Activists fear the Trump administration will use the rule to cover up misconduct by immigration officials.

Capital & Main · Nov 11, 2025

Soccer-Loving Father of Four Caught Up in El Cajon Immigration Raid

The operation included dozens of officers, some with guns in hand, as they moved through a paint business.

Capital & Main · Apr 8, 2025

Detentions of European tourists at US borders spark fears of traveling to America

U.S. authorities have arrested and detained Canadian and European travelers at U.S. borders in recent weeks

The Independent UK · Mar 21, 2025

Critics of bridge being constructed over the Tijuana River call the project unnecessary

A study conducted in 2019 showed that there could be potential floods in Tijuana if CBP agents fail to open gates fast enough or in the event of a malfunction

Latin Times · Sep 1, 2024

As Title 42 ends in US, asylum seekers wait for relief on border

Advocates fear the US-Mexico border will become a ‘deportation mill’ as new policies narrow avenues for seeking asylum.

Al Jazeera · May 12, 2023

Migrants say Border Patrol is keeping them between the border walls for days without food or shelter

SAN DIEGO — When a 33-year-old man from Afghanistan who had worked for the U.S. Army as a translator crossed onto U.S. soil from Tijuana, he thought he'd finally made it to a place where he would be safe.

Tribune News Service · Apr 13, 2023

Maritime smuggling is not new, but attempts have surged, as have deaths

SAN DIEGO — Just after midnight one Friday in late October 2021, the captain of a fishing boat sailing nearly 100 miles off the San Diego coastline spotted a faint light in the distance. In what a Coast Guard pilot later described as a miracle, the captain had spotted the…

Tribune News Service · Mar 13, 2023

‘Never sleeps, never even blinks’: the hi-tech Anduril towers spreading along the US border

Funded by Trump supporter Peter Thiel, the autonomous surveillance towers can detect a human from 2.8km away

The Guardian - US · Sep 16, 2022

With Title 42 in flux, migrants take over Mexican cities across the border

Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Pedro Rios of the American Friends Services Committee about how Tijuana, Mexico, is grappling with the continuing influx of migrants.

WEKU · May 1, 2022