US-Mexico border

How a shortage of factory-bred flies left the US exposed to the flesh-eating screwworm

Short on flies, the administration of US President Donald Trump closed the border with Mexico to cattle imports for more than 15 months starting in May 2025.

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A worker handles a tray with Mediterranean fruit flies inside a bio-factory as Mexico's government reconditions a plant to become the new sterile screwworm fly facility, October 17, 2025
A member of the Mexican navy patrols Benito Juarez International Airport after Mexican drug lord Nemesio Oseguera, known as "El Mencho," was killed in Jalisco state, in Mexico City, Mexico, February 22, 2026.

Mexican army kills 'El Melcho': How is Mexico's most violent cartel so powerful? - explainer

With high-caliber weapons and military-grade equipment, the CJNG is one of Mexico's most powerful and violent drug cartels. But how did it gain so much power?

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Vehicles drive past a burning bus used as a roadblock by organized crime following a federal operation in which a government source said Mexican drug lord Nemesio Oseguera, commonly known as "El Mencho," was killed, in Zapopan, Mexico, February 22, 2026.

New US military-led group aided Mexico's hunt for 'El Mencho' cartel boss

The Joint Interagency Task Force-Counter Cartel, which involves multiple US government agencies, was quietly launched late last year with the goal of mapping out networks of drug cartel members.

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IMMIGRATIONA AND Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents check the identity documents of a group of agricultural workers at a grocery store parking lot during an immigration raid in Mecca, California, US December 19, 2025.

Trump set to expand immigration crackdown in 2026 despite brewing backlash

ICE and Border Patrol will get $170 billion in additional funds through September 2029 - a huge surge of funding over their existing annual budgets of about $19 billion.

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Mexican president criticizes Trump felony charges

Lopez Obrador, who took office in 2018, developed a friendly working relationship with then-counterpart Trump.

APRIL 6, 2023ByREUTERS
Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gestures during a news conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico, June 20, 2022.

Four Americans kidnapped after crossing into Mexico, US Embassy says

The four unidentified Americans were in a white minivan with North Carolina license plates when they entered Matamoros, Tamaulipas on Friday.

MARCH 6, 2023ByREUTERS
Employees of the National Institute of Migration (INM) of Mexico stand at the border between Mexico and the United States, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico January 7, 2023.

Roots on routes: Connecting ancestral migration stories to modern movement

Last fall, during Sukkot, Uri L’Tzedek and Jewtina y Co. joined forces to host the very first Darchei Tzedek/Caminos a la Justicia Immigration Retreat.

FEBRUARY 5, 2023ByANALUCÍA LOPEZREVOREDO, EDDIE CHAVEZ CALDERON
PARTICIPANTS IN the Darchei Tzedek/Caminos a la Justicia Immigration Retreat arrive at the border town of Nogales, Arizona.

Close to 1,000 migrant children separated by Trump yet to be reunited with parents

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Thursday of the 998 children still separated, 148 were in the process of reunification.

FEBRUARY 2, 2023ByREUTERS
A WORKER STANDS next to a newly built section of the US border fence at Sunland Park, New Mexico, opposite the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, on Wednesday. Picture taken from the Mexico side of the border.

Americans can sponsor refugees directly under new program

Under the US State Department program, groups of at least five people will be expected to raise a minimum of $2,275 per sponsored refugee.

JANUARY 19, 2023ByREUTERS
Guatemalan men are searched by US Border Patrol agents after trying to cross the border from Mexico into Sunland Park, NM, US, September 17, 2021.

Abducted mayor, officials in northern Mexico freed, governor says

The mayor of a small town in northern Mexico near the US border and a group of officials have reportedly been freed.

OCTOBER 15, 2022ByREUTERS
Yellow police tape lies on the road as federal agents work at a crime scene in the town in Mexico

Two suspects charged after death of 51 migrants in sweltering Texas truck

The deaths once again highlight the challenge of controlling migrant crossings for Biden.

JUNE 29, 2022ByREUTERS
A WORKER STANDS next to a newly built section of the US border fence at Sunland Park, New Mexico, opposite the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, on Wednesday. Picture taken from the Mexico side of the border.

Mexico issues arrest warrants in 'Fast and Furious' gun trafficking case

The once-secret 'Fast and Furious' scheme set out to stop US-Mexico gun smuggling by allowing people to illegally buy arms in the United States and take them to Mexico.

JANUARY 10, 2022ByREUTERS
US Attorney General Eric Holder testifies during a hearing on "Oversight of the Justice Department" held by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, November 8, 2011.

US-Mexico border reopens after 20 months of COVID shutdown

On Sunday, hundreds of cars had formed lines stretching back kilometers from Tijuana, fueling fears the reopening could become a problem. But traffic advanced steadily.

NOVEMBER 9, 2021ByREUTERS
The Arizona-Mexico border fence near Naco, Arizona.

Biden picks Thomas Nides as ambassador to Israel

Biden also named his ambassador picks to NATO, Mexico, Sri Lanka, Gambia, Guinea, Paraguay and Costa Rica.

JUNE 16, 2021ByOMRI NAHMIAS
US Deputy Secretary of State Thomas R. Nides (C) talks to South Korea's Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan (R), as US Ambassador to South Korea Sung Kim listens on, during their meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul February 29, 2012.