In all of 2020, there were 181 illegal train crossing encounters. In not quite four months of 2021, there have been 292. It is an incredibly perilous journey for the migrants.

Two local hotels in Imperial County, the Ramada by Wyndham Hotel in Holtville and Travelodge by Wyndham El Centro, currently house migrants awaiting processing, with each hotel at full capacity.

The demand for U.S. chicken abroad increases production at home, production which Karen Davis, president of United Poultry Concerns, said devastates its surrounding environment.

Some 49% of the U.S. agricultural workforce is undocumented. A new bill making its way through Congress would expand systems already in place that help U.S. employers hire migrant workers legally.

Some 49% of the U.S. agricultural workforce is undocumented. A new bill making its way through Congress would expand systems already in place that help U.S. employers hire migrant workers legally.

“Right now, I'm afraid we are incentivizing people to come here illegally, which is, I think, a terrible humanitarian tragedy during the route here. “

Of the 2,000 migrants, about 500 are children, who live in small camping tents without access to heat, permanent shelter, or consistent clean running water.

“More than a Dream, America is a need.”

On the Tijuana side of the U.S.-Mexico border, about a five-minute walk from Trump's border wall, more than 2,000 people live in tents at the El Chaparral migrant encampment.

“People are not running to the U.S.—they are running away from the situations that they are living in Central America.”

The Biden administration plans to lease the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in downtown Dallas to house up to 3,000 immigrant teenagers, the Associated Press reported, in an effort to relieve pressure at the southern border caused by a wave of unaccompanied children.

President Joe Biden's reversal of the Trump-era policy of turning away unaccompanied migrant children has offered smugglers greater leverage in promising families safe passage for their children.

Newsweek got an inside look at the state of the U.S.-Mexico border through the eyes of Public Affairs Officers Justin Castrejon and Jacob MacIsaac of the U.S. Border Patrol.

The Coronavirus pandemic has earned the United States a new record for annual drug overdose deaths at 81,000. During this same period, law enforcement seizures of marijuana and methamphetamine also increased.

Political polarization over government use of facial recognition technology continues to mount, as Massachusetts became one of the first states to pass comprehensive regulations curbing law enforcement's use of the software.

As the European Union begins the process of implementing its Digital Markets and Digital Services Act, Australia will serve as a precedent for what the Union looks to emulate and avoid when enacting digital regulations.

Rupert Murdoch is on the move, looking to change the international news media landscape. To do it, he's taking on two digital giants, Facebook and Google.

And he just might come out on top.