Is Texas spending $800M to create its own border patrol?
By SETH ROBBINS and PAUL J. WEBER When former Gov. Rick Perry ordered a big reinforcement of security at the Mexico border in 2011, Texas bought six new gunboats that…
Central America
IMMIGRATION DEBATE UPENDED BY A FLOOD OF CHILDREN
BY JIM KUHNHENN FILE – This July 24, 2013 file photo shows demonstrators lying in front of the White House in Washington to represent deported family members during a rally…
PERRY SENDING NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS TO BORDER
By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and WILL WEISSERT Gov. Rick Perry, center, speaks during a news conference in the Governor’s press room, Monday, July 21, 2014, in Austin, Texas. Gov. Perry announced he is deploying…
MIGRATION SPOTLIGHTS MEXICAN ‘COYOTE’ SMUGGLERS
In this July 12, 2014, photo, a young boy is helped down from a freight car, as Central American migrants board a northbound freight train in Ixtepec, Mexico. Many…
2008 LAW UNEXPECTEDLY AT CENTER OF BORDER DEBATE
FILE – This June 25, 2014, file photo shows a group of immigrants from Honduras and El Salvador who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally are stopped in Granjeno, Texas.…
Biden in Central America to discuss migrant crisis
By SONIA PEREZ U.S. Vice President Joe Biden turns to Guatemala’s President Otto Perez Molina during a news conference at the National Palace in Guatemala City, Friday, June 20, 2014.…
HONDURAS POLICE SAY HEIRESS/SPA OWNER SLAIN
By FREDDY CUEVAS In this Aug. 31, 2013 photo, Lenin Roberto Arana, whose stage name is Canario, plays a traditional Garifuna drum during a concert in Roatan, Honduras. Arana was…
CALIFORNIA LATINOS SHOW DEEP ROOTS IN US
By GOSIA WOZNIACKA, ELLIOT SPAGAT and AMY TAXIN In this July 16, 2013 photo, Hilario Santiago Vasquez, right, looks on as his wife Josefina Hernandez Santiago holds the couple’s 5-month-old…