US-Mexico border

US-Mexico border

A horse stands inside a corral on rancher Ricardo Ramirez’s property in Zapata, Texas, US, 19 August 2026. Photo: Reuters

Horse smuggling exposes cracks in US defenses against screwworm

Illegal animal trafficking across the US-Mexico border is exposing gaps in efforts to contain New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite threatening livestock and the wider economy.

A drone view shows US authorities expelling migrants, mostly Venezuelans, as they are met by Mexican authorities at the Jeronimo-Santa Teresa border crossing, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, January 24, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

Mexico refuses US military flight deporting migrants: sources

Asylum-seeking migrants from Colombia and the Dominican Republic gather their belongings to move towards the main road to be transported, as others walk towards the road, after US President Joe Biden announced a sweeping border security enforcement effort, in Jacumba Hot Springs, California, US June 7, 2024. REUTERS/Go Nakamura

Migrant arrests drop at US-Mexico border as Biden asylum ban rolls out

A US Border Patrol agent leads Jessica Leon of Ecuador and her 3-year-old daughter onto a van to be processed in San Diego, California, US June 4, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Daniel Trotta

New reality for migrants at US-Mexico border as Biden asylum ban takes effect

An asylum-seeking migrant from China rests on a rock while waiting to be transported by the U.S. Border Patrol after crossing the border from Mexico into the U.S. in Jacumba Hot Springs, California, U.S. June 4, 2024. REUTERS/Go Nakamura

Biden imposes sweeping asylum ban at US-Mexico border

Migrants travel on a train with the intention of reaching the United States, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, October 3, 2023. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

Mexican border state: costs of 'migrant crisis' reach nearly $1 billion

FILE PHOTO: A gap in the U.S.-Mexico border fence near Sasabe, Arizona, U.S., May 10, 2022. REUTERS/Rebecca Noble/File Photo

US-Mexico border is world's deadliest land migration route, IOM finds

In this September 26, 2019 file photo, asylum seekers, in Tijuana, Mexico, listen to names being called from a waiting list to claim asylum at a border crossing in San Diego. (Source: AP Photo/Elliot Spagat, File)

Texas sues Biden administration over asylum rule, saying phone app encourages illegal immigration

Migrants seeking asylum cross the Rio Bravo river to return to Mexico from the United States, after members of the Texas Army National Guard extend razor wire to inhibit migrants crossing, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico 13 May, 2023. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

Migrant crossings drop at US-Mexico border after Title 42 expiry

U.S.President Joe Biden attends a meeting with Defense Department leaders in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, U.S. October 26, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

'Chaotic for a while' at US border as rules change: Biden

FILE PHOTO: Border patrol agents and Texas Army National Guard soldiers detain migrants, who were hiding in thick brush, after they crossed the Rio Grande river into the United States from Mexico in La Joya, Texas, US, 17 March, 2023. REUTERS/Adrees Latif/File Photo

US to temporarily send 1,500 troops to Mexico border

In this September 26, 2019 file photo, asylum seekers, in Tijuana, Mexico, listen to names being called from a waiting list to claim asylum at a border crossing in San Diego. (Source: AP Photo/Elliot Spagat, File)

US to test faster asylum screenings for migrants crossing border illegally

Migrant Elerith Medina is hugged by an activist during a protest outside the National Institute of Migration building after a fire broke out late on Monday at a migrant detention center, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, March 28, 2023. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

Factbox-Deadly tragedies involving migrants crossing Mexico