U.S.-Mexico Border

Immigrant rights groups rejoiced as authorities reunited a Guatemalan woman and her daughter Friday.

• By Massoud Hayoun

Drugs enter through official ports and Border Patrol checkpoints, not through the open land where walls might be built.

• By Francie Diep

Numbers offer the clearest picture of the situation at the border.

• By Massoud Hayoun

Primetime Oval Office addresses are outdated, but may still be effective for Trump.

• By Francie Diep

Following the president's primetime address, we collected Pacific Standard's most pertinent stories on immigration, border security, and the wall proposal.

• By Kelley Czajka

In the president's Tuesday night address, he claimed Democrats supported barriers but changed their tune once he took office.

• By Jack Herrera

In his primetime address, Trump will try to frame the border as a national emergency and a humanitarian crisis. But the current pressure—and exigence for the address—comes from the ongoing government shutdown.

• By Jack Herrera

Trump's threat to use a national emergency for the border wall taps into a history of far-reaching executive power.

• By Emily Moon

A group of 150 migrants had approached the border barrier in an attempt to cross, and, after the tear gas was fired, the clash escalated.

• By Jack Herrera

Washington state implements new gun purchase restrictions, more border fencing could be constructed, and NASA gets a a good look at a far-off celestial body.

• By Rebecca Worby

Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions "unlawfully and arbitrarily imposed a heightened standard" blocking escapees from violence from seeking refuge in the United States, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

• By Massoud Hayoun

Migrants planning to cross, both legally and illegally, say they fear Customs and Border Patrol detention. But because asylum-seekers entering legally are also detained, many still decide to cross the border illegally.

• By Jack Herrera

Though the government has opened a large indoor shelter in Tijuana for members of the caravan, around 350 migrants remain in a tent village against the border.

• By Jack Herrera

Ieva Jusionyte explores the spirit of first response in an area where dangers don't care about boundaries.

• By Peter C. Baker

Advocates estimate there are dozens of similar cases of immigrant parents separated from their children who have American citizenship.

• By Massoud Hayoun

Legal experts and migrants' rights advocates warn that the crisis will persist as migrants continue to arrive in Tijuana and other border towns.

• By Jack Herrera

New research finds that residents of the Southeast, Midwest, and Mountain Northwest are more likely to view the caravan as a threat than their counterparts in the Northeast and Southwest—where immigrants make up a larger share of the local population.

• By Massoud Hayoun

Honduran caravan members look through the fence at the United States–Mexico border wall at Friendship Park in San Ysidro, California, on November 18th, 2018.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

In what many see as a referendum on Trump's immigration policies, voters in several states rejected anti-immigrant platforms and ballot initiatives.

• By Jack Herrera

The outcome of the race between indicted incumbent Duncan Hunter, a Republican, and Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar, could affect President Donald Trump's immigration policy, at least at California's border with Mexico.

• By Emma Sarappo

Migrants carry the flag of Honduras while on a caravan of immigrants en route to the Mexican border on October 18th, 2018, in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Hundreds of family asylum seekers were released in Arizona this week without shelter, overwhelming churches and non-profits as communities scrambled to accommodate them.

• By Jack Herrera

The administration's mass deportations and refusal to take in escapees from disaster may be fueling organized crime in Tijuana and other border towns.

• By Massoud Hayoun

Advocates respond to the Washington Post's reports that Hispanic people with American birth certificates were being treated as non-citizens.

• By Jack Herrera