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An amusement park in Mexico is using unconventional tactics to keep citizens from illegally immigration -- such as staging fake border crossings.

Mexico's foreign relations secretary criticized the $30 billion "border surge" called for by the last amendment to the immigration reform bill and suggested the United States modernize bridge infrastructure along the border instead. The American Society of Civil Engineers gave the United States' bridges a C+ rating for 2013.

The US Senate voted 67-27 to end debate on the "border surge" amendment. The bill will come to a final vote in the Senate this week.

The Senate will vote today to proceed to debate on the Corker-Hoeven amendment, which provides for an extra 700 miles of fencing along the border, over 20,000 more Border Patrol agents, and $3.2 billion in funding for surveillance and detection technology.

The "border surge" amendment which will increase surveillance and create a "virtual human fence" of law enforcement along the US-Mexico border may also lead to a surge in migrant deaths, experts say.

The brothers were found guilty in 2012 for smuggling migrants across the US-Mexico border using Border Patrol vehicles. A San Diego judge will decide their sentence today.

An amendment to the immigration reform bill worked out by a bipartisan group of Senators will allocate more funds to VADER, a drone-mounted sensor initially developed for use in the Afghanistan war.

A small group of Republican and Democratic senators have drawn up an amendment to the immigration reform bill which could double spending for border security, including more Border Patrol agents and more surveillance and apprehension technologies.

The two defeated amendments would have forced the government to build at least 700 miles of double-layered fence on the border and establish a biometric tracking system at all land, sea and air ports of entry.

Senators decided by a 57-43 vote not to consider the amendment.

The remains of almost 800 people, or 34 percent of the total examined by the Pima County Office o the Medical Examiner since 1990, haven’t been identified.

Youtube sensation LiL MoCo released a new parody, this time taking Drake's "Starting from the Bottom" and changing it into "Starting from the Border." A reality that a lot of people face day to day portrayed in a funny way.

A new online mapping tool lets the user track and find information on deaths along the border. The Border Patrol says 463 migrants died while crossing the southwestern part of the border in 2012, the highest total since 2005.

A Mexican woman's car was used to transport marijuana as she crossed to the border to her job in San Diego early Friday morning. After scaring off two men who were attempting to retrieve the pot, she called police, who found the load of marijuana secured to the bottom of her car.

The "Gang of Eight" introduced their 844-page bill to the Senate late last night. The legislation, if passed, would create a path to citizenship for many of the nation's 11 million undocumented immigrants, grant $3 billion to Homeland Security for border patrol measures, and establish new visa and employee verification programs.

Undocumented immigrants who arrived to the U.S. before Dec. 31, 2011 and lived there continuously since could apply for provisional legal status.

Congressman Jason Chaffetz was surprised to find this feature on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Mexican grandmother Lucia Angulo has entered the United States illegally so often over the past three decades that she has lost count of how many times border patrols caught her.

Sen. John McCain and a number of other officials witnessed an immigrant cross the U.S., Mexico border in Arizona.

An immigration reform poll shows that a majority of Latinos are willing to vote Republican if their views on the crucial issue line up.

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega expressed confidence on Friday that Colombia would recognize an international court ruling this week thatgrants Nicaragua jurisdiction over resources-rich Caribbean waters near a Colombian archipelago.

Colombia is considering withdrawing from a treaty that forces the country to comply with an international court ruling that grants Nicaragua jurisdiction over Caribbean waters near a Colombian archipelago, the government said on Thursday.

The family of a Mexican teen shot dead when the U.S. Border Patrol opened fire on a group of rock throwers in Mexico last week is planning to bring a lawsuit alleging excessive use of force, Mexican authorities said on Monday.

A U.S. Border Patrol agent shot at suspected drug smugglers who were hurling rocks from Mexico across the border into Arizona, the agency said on Thursday, and Mexican authorities said one of them was killed.