In the last 10 days, the Remain in Mexico plan was blocked by one judge, only for that judge's preliminary injunction to be stayed by another court.
The secretary of Homeland Security, who resigned over the weekend, oversaw most of the Trump administration's family separation efforts.
A federal judge in San Francisco has issued a preliminary injunction against the Migrant Protection Protocols.
For Border Patrol, the border encompasses a 100-mile zone that stretches inwards from Mexico, Canada, and every coast.
If President Donald Trump were to close the border, these people's daily lives (and in many cases, their livelihoods), would be deeply affected.
The agency said that, with government detention facilities overwhelmed, it had nowhere else to hold the families.
Since public outrage forced the administration to abandon family separation, it has been searching for ways to guarantee that families remain in detention prior to a final decision on their immigration cases.
Some assumed courts would stop the plan immediately. But because the details of the plan remain opaque, advocates have had trouble challenging it.
The president uses the term to refer to immigrant families getting released before their court dates. But advocates say the term is both misleading and dehumanizing.
The number of people arrested crossing the southern border skyrocketed last month, according to new statistics. But what's happening is more complicated than the numbers show.
Internal government investigations have revealed that the government was seriously unprepared to implement Trump's zero-tolerance policy.
Protesters took to the streets at more than 140 events across the United States on Monday to oppose President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency on the country's southern border.
We've highlighted Pacific Standard's best stories on the national emergency over a border wall.
While the president has far-reaching powers in a state of emergency, experts say Trump could face legal challenges over specific provisions.
At the heart of the confrontation is the National Guard's unique role in the country's armed forces.
An effort to deliver food is only a temporary solution.
As a result of the shutdown, an estimated 80,000 court hearings will have to be rescheduled.
As a Honduran man was returned to Mexico under the new plan, questions remained unanswered on both sides of the border.
Under the Real ID Act, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen has the power to bypass environmental safeguards, rendering any ecological downside to a border wall a moot point.
Members of a caravan of Central American migrants walk along a highway on their way toward the United States on January 20th, 2019, in Huixtla, Mexico.
Immigrant rights groups rejoiced as authorities reunited a Guatemalan woman and her daughter Friday.
Drugs enter through official ports and Border Patrol checkpoints, not through the open land where walls might be built.
Numbers offer the clearest picture of the situation at the border.
Primetime Oval Office addresses are outdated, but may still be effective for Trump.
