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FILE - In this Jan 15, 2019, file photo, Rodney Scott, then-U.S. Border Patrol's San Diego sector chief shakes hands through a section of newly-replaced border wall in San Diego. The chief of the Border Patrol said Wednesday, June 23, 2021, he was leaving his job after less than two years in a position that lies in the crosshairs of polarizing political debate. Rodney Scott wrote to agents that he will be reassigned. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
Border Patrol chief who supported Trump's wall is forced out

By Elliot Spagat Jun. 23, 2021 07:33 PM EDT

FILE - In this March 20, 2020 file photo a woman adjusts her hat and mask as she arrives from Tijuana, Mexico, crossing by foot at the San Isidro port of entry in San Diego. An increasing number of American citizens have been apprehended as they have tried to smuggle illegal drugs into the U.S. since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, an uptick that's come amid travel restrictions at the border with Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
More US citizens apprehended for moving drugs over border

By Suman Naishadham May. 31, 2021 11:06 AM EDT

FILE - In this April 22, 2021 file photo, a sleeping area set up inside exhibit hall B of the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, Calif., where migrant children found at the U.S.-Mexico border without a parent will be temporarily housed. The Biden administration is holding tens of thousands of asylum-seeking children in an opaque network of some 200 facilities that The Associated Press has now learned spans two dozen states and includes five shelters with more than 1,000 children packed inside. (Brittany Murray/The Orange County Register via AP, Pool, File)
Migrant children held in mass shelters with little oversight

By Garance Burke, Juliet Linderman And Martha Mendoza May. 11, 2021 07:00 AM EDT

People touring the U.S. Border Patrol Yuma Sector, soft-sided processing facility, look at the pods inside one of four living areas at the facility during an open house, Tuesday, April 20, 2021, in Yuma, Ariz., in which the public was invited to see how the USBP will handle detained illegal immigrants who are apprehended while crossing the border into the United States from Mexico. The facility includes a laundry facility; multipurpose shower and changing area; an intake and medical area; processing area; 15 private phone rooms; and the four living areas, each divided into eight pods. (Randy Hoeft/The Yuma Sun via AP)
Arizona governor sending National Guard to southern border

By Anita Snow Apr. 20, 2021 07:01 PM EDT

US under Biden will no longer call migrants 'illegal aliens'

By Ben Fox Apr. 19, 2021 04:38 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — Employees of the two main U.S. immigration enforcement agencies were directed Monday to stop referring to migrants as “aliens,” a dated term...

FILE - In this March 30, 2021, file photo, young unaccompanied migrants wait for their turn at the secondary processing station inside the U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley, in Donna, Texas. U.S. authorities say they picked up nearly 19,000 children traveling alone across the Mexican border in March. It's the largest monthly number ever recorded and a major test for President Joe Biden as he reverses many of his predecessor's hardline immigration tactics. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, Pool, File)
EXPLAINER: Is the US border with Mexico in crisis?

By Elliot Spagat Apr. 08, 2021 10:45 AM EDT

FILE - In this March 30, 2021, file photo, young unaccompanied migrants wait for their turn at the secondary processing station inside the U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley, in Donna, Texas. U.S. authorities say they picked up nearly 19,000 children traveling alone across the Mexican border in March. It's the largest monthly number ever recorded and a major test for President Joe Biden as he reverses many of his predecessor's hardline immigration tactics. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, Pool, File)
Number of kids alone at border hits all-time high in March

By Elliot Spagat And Alexandra Jaffe Apr. 08, 2021 10:01 AM EDT

Minor children are housed inside a pod at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley run by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in Donna, Texas, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. The minors are housed by the hundreds in eight pods that are about 3,200 square feet in size. Many of the pods had more than 500 children in them. The Biden administration on Tuesday for the first time allowed journalists inside its main detention facility at the border for migrant children, revealing a severely overcrowded tent structure where more than 4,000 kids and families were crammed into pods and the youngest kept in a large play pen with mats on the floor for sleeping.(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, Pool)
EXPLAINER: Questions remain about conditions of migrant kids

By Elliot Spagat And Nomaan Merchant Mar. 31, 2021 07:14 PM EDT

President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, March 25, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Biden vows action on migrants as he defends border policy

By Ben Fox Mar. 26, 2021 12:42 AM EDT

A smuggler takes migrants, mostly from Central American countries, on a small inflatable raft towards U.S. soil in Roma, Texas, Wednesday, March 24, 2021. A surge of migrants on the Southwest border has the Biden administration on the defensive. The head of Homeland Security acknowledged the severity of the problem but insisted it's under control and said he won't revive a Trump-era practice of immediately expelling teens and children. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
Small Texas border town is route to US for migrant children

By Elliot Spagat Mar. 26, 2021 12:10 AM EDT

President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, March 25, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Biden vows action on migrants as he defends border policy

By Ben Fox Mar. 25, 2021 04:44 PM EDT

Editorial Roundup: Texas

By The Associated Press Mar. 22, 2021 10:00 AM EDT
San Antonio Express-News. March 19, 2021. Editorial: No solutions for border in political posturing As politicians hurl...

FILE - In this Thursday, March 18, 2021 file photo, syringes are filled with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a pop up site in New York. On Friday, March 18, 2021, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly asserting that COVID-19 vaccines contain aluminum, a toxic ingredient that enters the brain and causes disease. The COVID-19 vaccines that have been authorized for emergency use in the United States do not contain any aluminum, according to their ingredient lists. Nor do the AstraZeneca or Sputnik V vaccines. Some Chinese COVID-19 vaccines, as well as some vaccines used against other diseases, do use tiny amounts of aluminum to help boost the immune response. This method is safe and the quantity of aluminum is trivial compared to what humans encounter elsewhere in everyday life, experts say. Aluminum has been used in vaccines since the 1930s as an adjuvant, or immune booster, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

By The Associated Press Mar. 19, 2021 02:51 PM EDT

FILE - In this Monday, March 1, 2021 file photo, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington. The Biden administration is turning to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for help managing and caring for record numbers of unaccompanied immigrant children who are streaming into the U.S. from Mexico. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says FEMA will support a government-wide effort over the next three months, Saturday, March 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
Homeland Security head spars with Congress over border surge

By Ben Fox And Nomaan Merchant Mar. 17, 2021 12:21 AM EDT

National Security Council Coordinator for U.S. Southern Border Roberta Jacobson, accompanied by White House press secretary Jen Psaki, left, speaks at a press briefing at the White House, Wednesday, March 10, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
US reports surge of kids at SW border, a challenge for Biden

By Ben Fox Mar. 10, 2021 04:31 PM EST

FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2021, file photo, President Joe Biden signs his first executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Thousands of people are waiting to claim asylum and more come each day, falsely believing they will be able to enter the U.S. now that former President Donald Trump is out of office. Biden has made major changes to his predecessor's hardline immigration policies; but he hasn't lifted the major restrictions to people seeking asylum as he faces pressures from all sides. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Biden faces pressure as US sets new course on immigration

By Elliot Spagat And Ben Fox Feb. 15, 2021 10:09 AM EST

FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2021, file photo injured women, part of a Honduran migrant caravan in their bid to reach the U.S. border, weep as they sit on the side of a highway after clashing with Guatemalan police and soldiers in Vado Hondo, Guatemala, Guatemala. U.S. Federal law allows immigrants facing credible threats of persecution or violence in their home country to seek U.S. asylum. (AP Photo/Sandra Sebastian, File)
In Biden's early days, signs of Trump-era problems at border

By Nomaan Merchant Feb. 10, 2021 12:01 AM EST

Pamela Rivas, left, with her son Michael Maldonado, right, walks on her property that runs along the Rio Grande in Los Ebanos, Texas, Friday, Nov. 20, 2020. The U.S. government has been trying to take Pamela Rivas' land for a border wall since before Joe Biden was vice president. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Biden is facing high hopes, tough choices on border wall

By Nomaan Merchant And John L. Mone Dec. 03, 2020 09:56 AM EST

FILE - This Monday, May 20, 2019 file photo shows the Border Patrol Station in Weslaco, Texas. Border Patrol agents are detaining about 65 immigrant children at a station in South Texas in conditions that don't control the spread of the coronavirus, with limited social distancing and a lack of access to soap or hand sanitizer, immigration lawyers said Friday, Nov. 20, 2020. (Joel Martinez/The Monitor via AP, File)
Lawyers: Children detained at border facing COVID exposure

By Nomaan Merchant Nov. 20, 2020 04:56 PM EST

Illegal border crossings rise for sixth straight month

Nov. 19, 2020 05:47 PM EST
SAN DIEGO (AP) — U.S. border authorities stopped people entering the country illegally from Mexico more than 69,000 times in October, the sixth straight...