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The newspaper blasts the Border Patrol and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for what it calls their lack of transparency on the use of deadly force. The CBP does not disclose the names of agents who have used deadly force, and refuses to provide justifications for it in cases which human rights groups say are dubious.

According to UT-San Diego, a Spanish-language leaflet was distributed in Tijuana calling on would-be migrants to assemble “with the intention of crossing to the United States, to reunite with our children, families.”

Two U.S Border Patrol officers were sentenced to two years in jail for forcing Mexican smugglers to eat handfuls of pot.

Arizona's border fence project may have stalled - permanently. The private donations expected to fund the 375-mile-long fence dried up after only a fraction of the necessary funds were received,

13 people have been killed in three separate shootouts between civilians and the Mexican marines. It is believed the violence was due to rival drug cartels fighting over territory.

The 23-year-old activist, who was brought to the US illegally from Veracruz, Mexico at age 4, had requested asylum from authorities during a protest at the US-Mexico border.

A growing genre of YouTube video sees citizens refusing to submit to searches by Border Patrol agents who stop them at checkpoints without legal cause. One Arizona woman has garnered over 100,000 views for one such clip.

Several types of drug- and immigrant-smuggling cases were not prosecuted in the first three days in the government shutdown.

The Mexican border is an increasingly popular point of entry Cubans seeking to emigrate to the United States. In fiscal year 2013, 13,664 Cubans entered there, in contrast to 8,273 in 2012.

The 30 are the second such group of immigrant activists to present themselves at the US-Mexico border in a protest of immigration policies which saw them either deported or denied re-entry to the country where they grew up.

The biggest increases occurred in counties in Texas, which accounts for more than half of apprehensions. Its Rio Grande Valley is one of the most high-traffic areas along the US-Mexico border.

Eight immigrants who allegedly threw rocks at Border Patrol agents have been killed since 2010 when the agents fired at them. In response to outcry from the ACLU and immigrant advocacy groups, the government is fitting patrol vehicles and agents’ uniforms with cameras.

The Border Patrol has admitted no wrongdoing in the case, but in a settlement with the ACLU and the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, the agency agreed to release to the two groups copies of the traffic stop reports made by its agents.

Pelosi’s plan would drop the “border surge” amendment, which set aside $46 billion toward Border Patrol agents, fencing and surveillance technologies along the US-Mexico border. In its place, it would pick up a piece of House legislation which offers a simpler set of criteria for Homeland Security to establish along the border.

As a Mexico battered by three successive tropical storms tries to pick up the pieces, Biden arrived in its capital on Friday to meet with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. The vice president called for better infrastructure at the border to enhance trade ties and told his hosts that there was “no relationship that we value more”.

The Senate’s immigration bill calls for another 20,000 agents to be hired by the Border Patrol. But in a USA Today report published on Thursday, border sheriffs whose jurisdictions spanned the majority of the US-Mexico border said they thought the “border surge” missed the point.

“Credible fear” asylum claims from Indians nationwide have soared in the past four years – from 80 in fiscal year 2009 to 1,935 as of late June. An investigation by the newspaper the Arizona Republic suggests that some Indians who file for asylum at the border with Mexico by saying they face political persecution back home might simply be angling to gain entry to the United States. The report echoes conservatives’ fears that the credible fear claim is little more than a “loophole” in immigration law.

A man from Mexico was found trying to sneak into the U.S in a truck load of chili peppers.

Ministers, business leaders and mayors on the US side of the Mexican border are becoming increasingly vocal in their opposition to putting more fences and agents along the border, and point instead to what they see as unexplored potential to improve international commerce across it.

Diana Evelyn Mata Monreal, the director of Mexico’s Social Assistance and Humanitarian Aid Foundation (ASAHAC), told Notimex that both the US Border Patrol and citizen border patrol groups were using dogs more often to track down migrants.

Joe Arpaio told members of the Arizona civilian militia, the Minutemen, on Tuesday that if they continue carrying out border patrols in areas of the desert where his deputies also patrol, they could end up accidentally shot and killed. "If they continue this there could be some dead militia out there," Arpaio told the Associated Press.

LaMadrid, 19, was shot in the back in March 2011 by Border Patrol agents as he fled from them near Douglas, Arizona. The Justice Department says it won’t charge the agent, citing lack of evidence, but the young man’s mother says she will continue to seek justice for her son’s death.

Despite drug violence that has overwhelmed numerous states in Mexico, especially in those near the border with the United States, Mexicans seeking asylum based on a claim of fear of persecution back home are unlikely to be awarded it. Even as asylum requests along the US-Mexico border have more than doubled, the Department of Homeland Security says there hasn’t been a marked increase in applications from Mexican citizens.

Arpaio says he’ll begin sending his deputies out into the Maricopa County, Arizona desert to plant crosses in spots where the bodies of border-crossers have been found.

Surveys of Mexican immigrants show that those who cross the border illegally don’t take fear of punishment by authorities into account when they make their decision.

The Arizona senator says the "border surge" amendment in the Senate bill could be amended in a House compromise, but the path to citizenship is not negotiable.

Pop star Justin Bieber's tour caught with marijuana at Canadian border.

The number of unaccompanied minors has shot up since 2008. Over 13,000 of them were Mexicans, according to a report by Mexico's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Data from the Pew Center suggests that much of the remaining number were Central Americans.

The first flights of the Interior Repatriation Initiative took off from El Paso, Texas on Thursday, in what marks the commencement of a now-permanent program. Previously, deportees were dropped off by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Tijuana and other cities along the border, where they were frequent targets for organized crime.

The Congressional Budget Office says provisions called for by Senate bill's last amendment would help cut down on illegal entries as well as visa overstays, cutting the number of undocumented entering the country from 33 to 50 percent.