Category: Border

  • This video describes the situation at the border during early 2026 and that border crossings are higher now than they were a year ago. There were 8268 apprehensions at the border in March 2026 – a 15% increase over those apprehended in March 2025. Border Patrol thinks that they apprehend only 33% of the border…

  • 40% of the border has now been designated as part of a U.S. armed services base which allows the federal government to press additional charges against migrating trespassers. In this podcast, from The Border Chronicle, you will hear Melissa del Bosque interview Sonner Kehrt and Daivd Roza, from The War Horse, talk about these National…

  • This article, in the Guardian, describes the DHS wellness checks on unaccompanied minors that MVM. a firm in Ashburn Virginia, has been conducting in order for ICE to locate unaccompanied minors The MVM firm had been used at the border to transport children separated from their parents. They have been accused of torture as well…

  • Bi-partisan rationale for why a border wall in Texas is not a good idea. Read here

  • The Deportation Data Project provides this report from the first year of the Trump administration based on data published by the federal government

  • This six-minute video on PBS interviews David Bier of the CATO Institute about both the legal and illegal immigrant reductions into the country under this administration. The recent CATO study shows that legal immigration has dropped to 1/3 of it’s previous level from 186,000 to 54,000 per month and illegal entries have reduced from 62,000…

  • This recent zoom, from Immigration Law and Justice Network and Women United in Faith, has two parts: Read more about Noem vs. Al Otro Lado here. Read more about RAICES vs. Noem here

  • This article shows maps of the original border wall (mostly physical barrier) in South Texas (near Big Bend National Park) and the revised wall (mostly technology) and possible reasons for the change.

  • ICE may be at US/Mexican Ports of Entry to detain people who are self-deporting across the US/Mexican border in order to raise the number of detained individuals and to impose stronger penalties on those people. Read more here