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A Border Patrol vehicle sits near the border wall separating Mexicali, Mexico from Calexico, Calif., in Calexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) **FILE**

Border wall workers pelted by rocks from Mexico

People on the Mexican side of the border pelted U.S. construction workers making repairs on the border wall in Arizona this week, Homeland Security Department officials said Thursday.

August 5, 2021
In this Tuesday, June 8, 2021, photo, a group of Brazilian migrants make their way around a gap in the U.S.-Mexico border in Yuma, Ariz., seeking asylum in the United States after crossing over from Mexico. The Biden administration says it has identified more than 3,900 children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border under former President Donald Trump's "zero-tolerance" policy on illegal crossings. The Border Patrol's Yuma sector recorded the highest number of separations of the agency's nine sectors on the Mexican border. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia) **FILE**

Illegal immigrants from Brazil soar at border, up 114,000%

Illegal immigrants from Brazil are streaming across the U.S.-Mexico border at astronomical rates, Homeland Security officials said Wednesday, calling them a unique strain on the nation's border defenses in southern California.

August 4, 2021
In this June 12, 2018, photo, Mitchell, S.D., Assistant Police Chief Michael Koster shows a first-generation body camera at the police department in Mitchell, S.D. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on August 4, 2021, announced that it has outfitted its first group of Border Patrol agents with body cameras as part of a push to get 6,000 cameras into the field by the end of this year. (Briana Sanchez/The Argus Leader via AP, File)/The Argus Leader via AP) **FILE**

Border agents, officers start using body cameras

Homeland Security has outfitted a first group of Border Patrol agents with body cameras as part of a push to get 6,000 cameras into the field by the end of this year, the department announced Wednesday.

August 4, 2021
In this Tuesday, June 8, 2021, photo, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks at a news conference in Austin, Texas. Abbott, who faces a contested reelection primary next year, is pushing looser gun laws than he ever previously embraced and proposing unprecedented state actions, including promises to build more walls on the Mexican border. Similar scenes are playing out in campaigns in other red states including Arkansas and Idaho, where ultra-right-wing challengers are tapping into anger among Republicans over Trump’s election loss and coronavirus-related lockdowns. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) **FILE**

Biden DOJ sues to stop Texas border crackdown

The federal Justice Department filed a lawsuit Friday to block Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's latest attempt to fill gaps in border security with a policy that allows state troopers to stop and turn back vehicles carrying illegal immigrants away from the boundary region.

July 30, 2021
In this May 25, 2010 file photo, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent walks down the aisle among shackled Mexican immigrants a boarded a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement charter jet for deportation in the air between Chicago, Il. and Harlingen, Texas. A Homeland Security Department internal watchdog says U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement could have saved millions of dollars on charter flights carrying deported immigrants to their home countries by not leaving seats empty. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

DHS makes first speedy deportation flights as border crisis deepens

Homeland Security officials said the first expedited removal flights of illegal immigrant families back to Central America took off Friday under a new initiative to stem the border surge, braving criticism from immigrant-rights activists who called the move "appalling."

July 30, 2021