Border Crisis

The United States does need a more orderly border. It also needs more immigrants, who are critical to the country’s economic strength.

Neither the declining number of border arrivals nor the intransigence of congressional Republicans has improved the President’s standing on the issue.

The Arizona rancher was accused of killing a migrant. A tragedy, and a possible murder, quickly became a political cause.

In the Senate, the House, and the White House, leaders are weak—at a time when leading is needed.

The governor of Texas has triggered a constitutional crisis about who controls entry from Mexico, and some supporters are there for the spectacle.

Keldy Mabel Gonzáles Brebe de Zúniga was one of the first mothers separated from her children at the border by the Trump Administration. The cruelty she suffered in the United States was matched only by what she was forced to flee in Honduras.

The shutting of a crossing in Arizona has reduced access to a popular Mexican beach town, leading to outrage from unfamiliar sources.

A congressman described Musk as a “concerned citizen with a megaphone.” But Musk’s megaphone is the problem.

What has become of the tens of thousands of people who have disappeared on their way to Europe?

Along the border, a nonprofit works to reunite families with their loved ones—alive or dead.

The new documentary “Mija” considers the burdens imposed on an increasingly politicized generation.

Andrea Flores’s efforts to roll back Trump’s immigration policies faced opposition inside and outside the White House.

Migrants from across the region have again filled camps in northern Mexico, where criminals and traffickers prey upon them.

As migrants arrive in the Rio Grande Valley, residents debate the latest chapter of America’s decades-old conundrum.

The Biden Administration has begun an ambitious effort to reunite more than a thousand families torn apart by the previous President.

Nearly a century ago, five hundred Spanish children were sent away from violence and hunger for a new life in Mexico. Plus, Jelani Cobb on the conviction of Derek Chauvin.

Cecilia Muñoz discusses the Biden Administration’s response to the recent surge of arrivals and how conversations about the border have changed during the past thirty years.

The new Administration is coming under fire for a policy it says protects young migrants.

Eunice Cho, a senior staff attorney at the A.C.L.U., discusses the dangers that immigrant women face at poorly run detention facilities.

After decades of agricultural work, Winny Contreras can afford to send his kids to college—but only by working thousands of miles from home.