US-Mexico Border

The Drug Enforcement Administration has new authority to assist in immigration, part of President Donald Trump’s crackdown and his pressure campaign on Mexico, reports NBC 7’s Shelby Bremer. 

President Donald Trump says a primary reason for his new tariffs against the United States’ three largest trading partners is what he calls a “national emergency” brought on by fentanyl flowing across the country’s borders, NBC News reported.

The president says there were just 8,300 migrants apprehended at the border in February. Border Patrol notes that’s the lowest number ever. NBC 7’s Shelby Bremer explains how the Trump administration’s immigration policy is starting to take shape.

The Pentagon is sending about 3,000 more active-duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico border as President Donald Trump seeks to clamp down on illegal immigration and fulfill a central promise of his campaign.

Residents say a hotspot for border crossings in Jacumba has calmed in recent months, after years of national attention over the number of migrants entering the United States from Mexico through a small passage where the border fence ends.

Mexico has sent infamous drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero to the United States along with 28 other prisoners requested by the U.S. government. Caro Quintero was behind the killing of a U.S. DEA agent in 1985.

More than 2,500 Mexican troops, from the states of Tlaxcala, Durango, Yucatán and Mexico City, have fanned out along this historically violent border city in a show of force, NBC News reported. 

There were 61,000 encounters at the southwest border in January, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s latest monthly figures. That’s down 36% from December and 65% from January of last year. NBC 7’s Shelby Bremer reports.

NBC 7’s Dave Summers explains why bringing eggs from Mexico into the U.S. can result in a large fine and a long wait.

Many families have been having a tough time finding affordable eggs at the grocery store. Now, federal officials say they’re intercepting a growing number of eggs at the U.S.-Mexico border.

The commissioner of the International Boundary and Water Commission says they’ve made progress at the long-neglected South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant. NBC 7’s Joe Little reports.

CBP agents assigned to the cargo area of ​​the Pharr International Bridge intervened Tuesday with a truck that was preparing to cross in from Mexico.

Trump has declared an emergency on the border despite migration levels and fentanyl overdoses significantly dipping over the part year.

Mexican soldiers were mobilized on Tuesday to the border with the United States to crack down on fentanyl trafficking.

President Donald Trump’s plan to impose tariffs on goods from Mexico, Canada and China is partly aimed at combating the illicit flow of fentanyl into the U.S., where the opioid is blamed for some 70,000 overdose deaths annually.

Thousands of protestors have staged demonstrations from Chicago to Phoenix to protest President Trump’s immigration policies and deportations.

Dozens of Marines unfurled coils of concertina wire, making it more difficult to climb a border wall separating Tijuana from San Diego.

After a night of rain that potentially aided firefighting efforts, the Border 2 Fire was 43% contained by Monday morning.

NBC 7’s Jeanette Quezada explains how the upcoming rain could impact San Diego fire crews and areas the fire has burned.

NBC 7’s MG Perez is at the command post with the latest on the Border 2 fire.