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• Border security hearing will be held today

  May 7, 2013 3:08 AM

  This morning the Senate Homeland Security Committee will hold a hearing on border security as it relates to the "Gang of Eight's" potential immigration bill. The committee hopes to examine provisions in the bill known as the "border security, economic opportunity, and immigration modernization act." Witnesses testifying include commissioners... more »

• Presidential hopefull speaks out against south border fence

  September 3, 2011 5:52 PM

  MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry says he opposes a fence along the U.S. border with Mexico. Speaking to hundreds of New Hampshire voters at a private reception this afternoon, the Texas governor says a fence would be ineffective and take too long to build. Tea party... more »

• Border Patrol agents killed in collision with train

  May 13, 2011 3:46 PM

  PHOENIX (AP) - The U.S. Border Patrol has confirmed that two of its agents who died in the line of duty were trying to help other agents head off a group of marijuana smugglers in southern Arizona when their SUV was struck by a fast-moving train. Border Patrol spokesman... more »

• President says border is more secure

  May 10, 2011 7:48 PM

  EL PASO, Texas (AP) - Describing the border with Mexico as more secure than ever, President Barack Obama says Republicans who insisted on tougher enforcement should now be ready to move on and deal with comprehensive immigration reform. But instead, he says they're still demanding more. In a speech... more »

• Pakistan concerned about future U.S. incursions

  May 3, 2011 1:51 PM

  ISLAMABAD (AP) - Pakistan says it is deeply concerned over what it said was an "unauthorized" American raid that killed Osama bin Laden. The government statement Tuesday said the raid should not serve as a precedent for future U.S. actions in the country. Washington says it did not inform... more »

• Border Patrol agents involved in shooting in Nogales

  January 5, 2011 4:30 PM

  NOGALES, Ariz. (AP) - The U.S. Border Patrol says its agents have been involved in a shooting near the US-Mexico border in the Arizona city of Nogales. It's not known whether agents were fired upon or whether they fired shots in the Wednesday incident. It's also not known if anyone... more »

• Nogales mayor arrested

  September 28, 2010 2:33 PM

  PHOENIX (AP) - The Arizona attorney general says Nogales Mayor Octavio Garcia Von Borstel has been arrested on multiple charges including bribery, theft, fraud and money laundering. The 29-year-old mayor was arrested Tuesday morning at his office at the Nogales City Hall. Search warrants were executed at his home,... more »

• BC police: Bears surrounded pot fields

  August 19, 2010 8:42 AM

  Police who uncovered two marijuana fields near the U.S.-Canada border had to tread carefully: 13 black bears were wandering around the crops. The fields of about 2,300 plants were found near Christina Lake, just a few miles from the border. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cpl. Dan Moskaluk says... more »

• Border Patrol sees spike in suicides

  August 16, 2010 8:19 AM

  U.S. Border Patrol agents are killing themselves in greater numbers, after nearly four years without one suicide. Records obtained by The Associated Press show that at least 15 agents have taken their own lives since February 2008. It's the largest spike in suicides the agency has seen in at... more »

• Colorado Army deserter arrested at border

  August 13, 2010 9:03 AM

  U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials in Montana say they have arrested a 28-year-old Colorado man accused of deserting the U.S. Army. Officials say Eric Wagner of Lakewood, was taken into custody Wednesday at the Chief Mountain port of entry into Glacier National Park. Customs spokeswoman Lynn Shozoda... more »

• Obama to sign $600 million border security bill

  August 13, 2010 8:20 AM

  President Barack Obama is signing a bill Friday to put more agents and equipment along the Mexican border. The Senate passed the $600 million measure during a special session Thursday. The border security measure would fund the hiring of 1,000 new Border Patrol agents, plus 250 Immigration and Customs... more »

• Arizona to Washington: Give us the money

  August 11, 2010 9:21 AM

  More agents and more drones along the Mexican border are just what states like Arizona are demanding from Washington. And Arizona Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick wants the in-recess Senate to act quickly to make it happen. A spokesman for Majority Leader Harry Reid says they're hoping for passage by the... more »

• President talks immigration reform

  July 1, 2010 1:14 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says America's borders are "just too vast" for the immigration problem to be solved with fences and border patrols alone. He said that a comprehensive solution is needed, instead, urging one that holds everyone accountable, from illegal immigrants to the businesses that hire... more »

• Arizona law could drive day laborers out

  April 29, 2010 10:46 AM

  Many of the cars that once stopped in the Home Depot parking lot to pick up day laborers to hang drywall or do landscaping now just drive on by. Arizona's sweeping immigration bill allows police to arrest illegal immigrant day laborers seeking work on the street or anyone trying... more »

• Democrats want border security before legalization

  April 28, 2010 12:54 PM

  Democratic senators writing an immigration bill are circulating details about their emerging proposal that would secure the border before illegal immigrants could become legal U.S. residents. The plan would increase the number of border and immigration enforcement agents, and lays out security benchmarks. The Associated Press obtained a copy of... more »

• Stolen Colorado Springs SUV involved in border shooting

  April 19, 2010 5:06 PM

  A man shot and wounded by federal officers after he allegedly sped from a gate at the nation's busiest border crossing near San Diego was in an SUV stolen in Colorado Springs March 1. Richard Cress, 54, is also suspected in a string of Denver metro area purse snatchings. ... more »

• Iran to try 3 Americans who crossed border

  December 14, 2009 9:35 AM

  Iran has said they were spying. Now the foreign minister says the three Americans jailed since July will be tried, though he's not saying on what charges. Relatives and the U.S. government say the three were innocently hiking in northern Iraq and accidentally crossed into Iran. The foreign minister's comments... more »

• Iran will allow Swiss access to detained Americans

  September 29, 2009 12:19 PM

  U.S. officials say Iran has notified the Swiss government that it can have access to three Americans who have been detained in Iran since being arrested for illegal entry in late July. The move could be seen as a conciliatory gesture on Iran's part, coming ahead of a meeting between... more »

• Texas governor sends Rangers to Mexico border

  September 11, 2009 12:56 PM

  Special teams of Texas Rangers will be deployed to the Texas-Mexico border to deal with increasing violence because the federal government has failed to address growing problems there, Gov. Rick Perry said Thursday. "It is an expansive effort with the Rangers playing a more high-profile role than they've ever... more »