US-Mexico Border

The battle over immigration enforcement in San Diego County has drawn national attention, as President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration – and his promise of mass deportations – draw closer.

Prominent figures close to President-elect Donald Trump are taking aim at the county board’s new policy that looks to end any transfers into ICE custody. NBC 7’s Shelby Bremer reports.

President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration and border team is filling out.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom visited the border in San Diego County Thursday to announce construction beginning in January on a new road leading to the long-awaited Otay Mesa East port of entry.

California’s governor also discussed “new CalGuard initiative targeting cash and weapons that fuel cartel violence,” reports NBC 7’s Shelby Bremer.

New video shows what appears to be a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) SUV colliding with a person at the U.S.-Mexico border near San Diego.

New video shows what appears to be a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) SUV colliding with a person at the U.S.-Mexico border near San Diego.

Gov. Gavin Newsom spoke on on transnational commerce and border security Thursday when he visited the California-Mexico border in San Diego County.

More than 215 pounds of fentanyl pills were found concealed in a vehicle attempting to cross into the United States at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said Monday.

NBC 7 and Telemundo 20’s Tania Luviano-Hurwitz spoke with a woman who has been in the hospital for more than a month after falling from a 30-foot border fence.

More than 900 people have fallen this year, according to a report by UC San Diego Health and Scripps, an increase of 58% compared with last year.

At that station, it was determined the man was not a Mexican citizen, but instead a 32-year-old citizen of El Salvador and an MS-13 gang member, according to CBP.

U.S. Border Patrol agents from the Chula Vista Border Patrol Station arrested an alleged member of the violent street gang Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) who entered the country illegally along with a group of people, officials announced last week.

Many drivers will head south for Thanksgiving, across the U.S.-Mexico border to celebrate the holiday in Mexico. T20 and NBC 7’s Karla Gonzalez has a look at the traffic in San Ysidro.

Border Patrol agents are tasked with enforcing hotly contested immigration policies as many Americans at both ends of the political spectrum look askance at the border — and the agents. That’s taking a mounting toll, so the agency is training more among its ranks to become chaplains and provide spiritual care for their fellow agents on and off the job....

A public information campaign began Wednesday urging travelers to be on the lookout for a practice known as “wildcatting,” in which unregulated ride-hailing drivers operate without oversight, largely at San Diego’s border crossings, putting riders at risk.

“Wildcatter” drivers are basically unregulated taxi or rideshare drivers. NBC 7’s Nicole Gomez has more on why they’re such a problem in San Ysidro. 

A group of undocumented women traveled from across California to the border wall in Imperial Beach Tuesday to stand in solidarity with immigrant communities feeling fear ahead of the second administration of President Donald Trump, who promised mass deportations on the campaign trail.

Nearly 200 families have gathered along a stretch of the United States-Mexico border for heartfelt but brief reunions with loved ones they had not seen for years because they live in opposite countries.

Tuesday’s meeting is an opportunity to hear from the International Boundary Water Commission, which operates one of the plants that treats sewage flowing from Tijuana to San Diego County