U.S. Mexico Border

A rancher who lives near Arizona’s border with Mexico is being held on a charge of first-degree murder in last week’s fatal shooting of a man tentatively identified as a Mexican citizen.

The Biden administration says U.S. authorities have seen a 97% decline in illegal border crossings by migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

U.S. border authorities have updated their policy for pursuing smugglers and those suspected of other crimes following an extensive review.

Officials from Arizona have called on a politically diverse delegation of senators to craft immigration reform amid an increase in migrant arrivals that can overwhelm local resources.

Former Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s border barrier of shipping containers has been largely dismantled just in time for a new Democratic administration, costing tens of millions of dollars over just a few months while they were set up and taken down again.

President Joe Biden says the U.S. will immediately begin turning away Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans who cross the border from Mexico illegally.

It will be his first visit to the border since taking office.

U.S. authorities say illegal border crossings by Cubans and Nicaraguans rose sharply in November while overall migration flows were little changed from October.

An appeals court rejected efforts to keep in place pandemic-related restrictions on immigrants seeking asylum.

The U.S. government has sued Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey and the state over the placement of shipping containers as a barrier on the border with Mexico.