The chairman of a prominent House committee is asking for answers about secret Facebook groups that aired racist and sexist comments made by agents of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency.
Border Patrol agents dropped off asylum-seeking migrants in New Mexico's second most populous city for the second day in a row Saturday, prompting Las Cruces city officials to appeal for donations of food and personal hygiene items and a state medical program to seek volunteers to provide health assessments of migrants.
The surge of migrant families arriving at the southern border has led the Trump administration to dramatically expand a practice President Donald Trump has long mocked as "catch and release."
The fentanyl load was enough for more than 100 million lethal doses of the drug, a synthetic opioid that has fueled an epidemic of U.S. overdose deaths.
Figures released by DHS show nationwide apprehensions of migrants entering the country without authorization are at some of their lowest numbers in decades.
Migrants hoping to apply for asylum in the US must put their names on a waiting list that already had 3,000-plus people on it before the caravan arrived.