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Twelve years ago, 12 border agents hogtied, dragged, beat, punched, kicked, used a stun gun on and kneeled on the body of Hernández Rojas until he stopped breathing.

Customs and Border Protection opened a 30-day window for public comment. That window closes Tuesday.

The federal agency has a history of malfeasance and abusive practices that have sullied its public image.

The deterrence strategy continues to be the foundation for border enforcement tools that policymakers promote.

President Biden could have rescinded Title 42 when he stepped into the White House before it became a political hot potato.

Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Pedro Rios of the American Friends Services Committee about how Tijuana, Mexico, is grappling with the continuing influx of migrants.

Disorientation while climbing border walls has contributed to incalculable suffering.

Congress must act to end the U.S. Border Patrol's special, secretive, unsanctioned Critical Incident Teams.

In at least one recent report, the United States is labeled as a backsliding democracy because of a decline in fundamental checks and balances at the federal level.

is director, U.S.-Mexico Border Program, American Friends Service Committee. He lives in Chula Vista. Last month, I spoke with a mother of two teenage boys at the Chaparral migrant encampment in Tijuana, who I’ll call Julia. Julia left her hometown in Mexico because a gang threatened her boys and disabled her husband when he defended them. When she and her family arrived in Tijuana, she discovered that people connected to the gang in her hometown were in Tijuana, and she was strongly consider...