US-Mexico border

Trump set to expand immigration crackdown in 2026 despite brewing backlash

ICE and Border Patrol will get $170 billion in additional funds through September 2029 - a huge surge of funding over their existing annual budgets of about $19 billion.

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IMMIGRATIONA AND Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents check the identity documents of a group of agricultural workers at a grocery store parking lot during an immigration raid in Mecca, California, US December 19, 2025.
Demonstrators seen during a protest against federal immigration sweeps in downtown Los Angeles, California, US, June 8, 2025

US pushes Mexico to prosecute politicians with ties to drug cartels

The requests seek to push President Claudia Sheinbaum's government to investigate current elected officials and launch an unprecedented crackdown on narco corruption.

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials detain a group of migrants, part of a caravan of thousands from Central America trying to reach the United States, after they crossed illegally from Mexico to the U.S, as seen from Tijuana, Mexico, December 15, 2018.

US military creates new military zone along border with Mexico

US Customs and Border Protection maintains jurisdiction over illegal border crossings in the area and troops would hand over migrants they detained to US Border Patrol.

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump holds a signed executive order on tariffs on aluminum imports, in the Oval Office of the White House.

Trump says Mexico, Canada tariffs to take effect March 4

Trump vows to impose another 10% tariff on Chinese goods by March 4

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Former Mexican defense minister held in US in major drug cartel legal case

Cienfuegos was indicted in federal court in New York on four counts of drug trafficking and money laundering.

OCTOBER 21, 2020ByREUTERS
A drug addict stands behind bars at a Hamas-run prison in Gaza City March 1, 2017

US watchdog to investigate forced-sterilization claims at ICE facility

"A lot of them said that they didn't understand what was being done to them. Nobody explained it to them," Wooten, a former nurse at the facility told Reuters.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020ByREUTERS
PROTESTERS DEMONSTRATE outside the ICE immigration detention center in Adelanto, California, last month

Mexican children shiver in tents at US border as temperature freezes

Weather forecasts predict freezing temperatures in the Ciudad Juarez-El Paso area through the weekend.

DECEMBER 19, 2019ByREUTERS
An asylum-seeking child plays in an encampment where he lives in Matamoros

N.Y. Governor criticizes AOC’s concentration camps remarks

"There is no comparison to the Holocaust, period.”

JUNE 29, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
NEW YORK, NY - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo marches during the annual Celebrate Israel Parade on June 3, 2018 in New York City.