Yuma apprehensions rising in August
The Yuma Sector already hit a record year for apprehensions, seeing a 200% increase in encounters compared to just last year.
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Tribe: Arizona built border barrier against its wishes
The Cocopah Indian Tribe said Friday that the state of Arizona acted against its wishes by stacking shipping containers on its land to prevent illegal border crossings.
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Man sentenced 14 months for assaulting a Border Patrol agent
A 25-year-old man was sentenced to 14 months in prison along with one year of supervised release and had previously plead guilty to one count of assault on a federal officer on June 15, 2022.
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‘The future is here’ migrants step off buses from Texas into New York homeless shelters
Jessica Flores stepped out of the Port Authority Bus Terminal with her husband and their 6-year-old daughter into the unfamiliar heart of Manhattan, where giant billboards sparkled under a sweltering late summer sun.
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VIDEO: Migrants from Texas arrive in Chicago
Buses pulled into Chicago’s Union Station last night to drop off 75 migrants from the US border with Mexico.
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Man sentenced to 46 months in prison for bringing deadly drugs into the U.S.
A 22-year-old man was sentenced to 46 months in prison along with five years of supervised release and has also previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import fentanyl, methamphetamine and heroin.
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The first bus carrying migrants from the US-Mexico border in Texas arrives in Chicago, officials say
The state of Texas, which for several months has bussed thousands of newly arrived migrants at the US-Mexico border to New York City and Washington, DC, has set a new metropolitan area as a destination: Chicago.
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Dreams of safety, health care, jobs: Why thousands of migrants are waiting in Mexico – and thousands more arrive each week
Pastor Hector Silva gets emotional as he describes how he had to recently turn away mothers, with infants in their arms, from the gates of his migrant shelter.
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Pregnant migrant crosses into Yuma
While most migrants cross the border at night, some still make their way into the U.S. in the daytime heat.
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California may be first to ban solo confinement for immigrants
Under a bill that advanced Tuesday, California would be the first U.S. state to ban solitary confinement in private civil detention centers used for immigrants who are under threat of deportation.
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s ‘Se Busca Informacion’ campaign targets five human smugglers
The U.S. and Mexico announced five criminal targets for their “Se Busca Informacion” initiative that is a joint effort by the U.S. Border Patrol and the Government of Mexico to find people from criminal organizations wanted for crimes such as human and drug smuggling on both sides of the border.
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Migrants continue to walk into Yuma
In a press briefing Monday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said “it’s not like migrants are just walking” across the border.
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Border Patrol agents seize narcotics, firearms, paraphernalia and a stolen vehicle from Yuma in an arrest
El Centro Border Patrol agents arrested a 24-year-old U.S. citizen early morning of August 30 for possession of a stolen vehicle, narcotics, brass knuckles and a loaded firearm.
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Border Patrol arrests 17-year-old migrant attempting to smuggle 14 people in Yuma
According to the U.S. Border Patrol Yuma Sector, agents arrested a 17-year-old migrant who attempted to smuggle 14 undocumented citizens in the cab and bed of a pickup truck after illegally entering the United States from Mexico.
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Border Patrol rescues baby, toddler left in Arizona desert
The Border Patrol says one of its agents rescued an infant and a toddler who were left alone by migrant smugglers in western Arizona’s Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
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All five border gaps filled with containers
YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) – The state funded shipping container wall project is now complete. The director of the Arizona Department of Homeland Security visited Yuma today to oversee the finished product. A construction company hired by the state of Arizona stacked these containers along Yuma’s border wall gaps. The state says it took eleven days
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VIDEO: More asylum seeker buses arrive in NYC
Hundreds more asylum seekers arrive in New York City this morning, bussed in by the state of Texas in an ongoing political fight over immigration.
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Border Patrol agents were captured on video in an altercation with migrants in California
An altercation involving United States Border Patrol agents and two migrants on a Southern California beach was captured on video Sunday, prompting the FBI to investigate an alleged assault on federal officers.
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Shipping container wall nears completion
While not many migrants have crossed by the dam since construction began, the work is not stopping illegal crossings altogether.
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Bordercast: A roundup of what happens at the border
NBC and FOX9 showcased a special airing regarding what exactly happens behind the scenes of the southern border separating Yuma and Mexico.
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