HHS redirects over $2B in COVID-19 funds for migrant children in shelters

The Biden administration says it has directed the Department of Health and Human Services to reroute more than $2 billion of COVID-19 funds to help cover the costs of supporting unaccompanied migrant children that have arrived in the U.S.

'There was no going back': Migrants send kids into US alone

Growing numbers of migrant families are making the heart-wrenching decision to separate as they try to get their children into America.

‘We Build the Wall’ campaign co-founder indicted on charges of tax fraud

Brian Kolfage, co-founder of the “We Build the Wall” online fundraising campaign, has been indicted for alleged tax fraud by the North District of Florida attorney’s office.

Dozens of migrant children at Long Beach, Pomona centers treated for COVID-19

About four dozen migrant children being housed at an intake center at the Long Beach Convention Center have tested positive for COVID-19, along with 14 more at the Pomona Fairplex.

U.S. to begin reuniting families separated at border

Three months after President Biden created of the Family Reunification Task Force, his administration announced that four families would be reunited soon.

Number of migrants hiding on trains into US spikes

People have been found riding on top of rail cars, holding onto the undercarriage, and even within new vehicles that are being shipped north.

Smugglers attempt to float pickup truck across Rio Grande into U.S.

Smugglers attempted to float a Ford Ranger pickup truck with over $500K of marijuana aboard across the Rio Grande River in Texas.

More live finches found in luggage at JFK Airport

U.S. Customs agriculture specialists inspecting a piece of luggage found 40 finches stuffed inside hair rollers.

149 people found locked in tractor-trailer in Texas

U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to a checkpoint on  I-35 near Laredo found 149 locked in a tractor-trailer.

Homeland Security surveillance plan at Canadian border questioned

The Department of Homeland Security has agreed to reopen the public comment period on plans to build a number of high-powered surveillance towers along Vermont's border with the Canadian province of Quebec.

US to keep migrant families in hotels as amid rush for space

Migrant families will be held at hotels in the Phoenix area in response to a growing number of people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, another step in the Biden’s administration rush to set up temporary space.

Number of kids traveling alone at US-Mexico border hits all-time high in March

The U.S. government picked up nearly 19,000 children traveling alone across the Mexican border in March, authorities said Thursday, the largest monthly number ever recorded.

Customs inspectors find invasive giant snails in suitcase at JFK Airport

Agriculture specialists with found 22 giant African snails and about 24 pounds of prohibited meat and plant products inside a man's luggage.

Yemeni men arrested at border were on FBI terrorist watch list

U.S. Border Patrol agents in California arrested two men in two months who turned up on the terrorist watch list.

Poll: 40% of American disapprove of Biden's handling of the Mexico border crisis

More Americans disapprove than approve of how President Joe Biden is handling the sharply increasing number of unaccompanied migrant children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, and approval of his efforts on larger immigration policy falls short of other top issues.