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?

|ByTOBIAS HOLCMAN
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.

|ByREUTERS, TOBIAS HOLCMAN, GOLDIE KATZ
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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Biden keeps US refugee cap at Trump-era 15,000 - for now

Democratic US Representative Pramila Jayapal called Biden's decision not to raise Trump's "harmful, xenophobic and racist refugee cap" unconscionable.

APRIL 17, 2021ByREUTERS
US President Joe Biden speaks in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, US, March 15, 2021

US considering cash payments to Central America to stem migration

Biden in late March tapped Vice President Kamala Harris to lead US efforts with Mexico and Central America to address the number of migrants heading north.

APRIL 10, 2021ByREUTERS
A migrant from Guatemala talk to a US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent at the Paso del Norte international border bridge to request asylum in El Paso, Texas, U.S., in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico January 26, 2021.

As asylum camp swells at US-Mexico border, Biden aide calls for patience

The Trump administration's protocols, in place since 2019, have pushed more than 65,000 asylum seekers back into Mexico to wait for their US court hearings.

JANUARY 30, 2021ByREUTERS
A migrant from Guatemala talk to a US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent at the Paso del Norte international border bridge to request asylum in El Paso, Texas, U.S., in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico January 26, 2021.

Former Mexican defense minister held in US in major drug cartel legal case

Cienfuegos was indicted in federal court in New York on four counts of drug trafficking and money laundering.

OCTOBER 21, 2020ByREUTERS
A drug addict stands behind bars at a Hamas-run prison in Gaza City March 1, 2017

US watchdog to investigate forced-sterilization claims at ICE facility

"A lot of them said that they didn't understand what was being done to them. Nobody explained it to them," Wooten, a former nurse at the facility told Reuters.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020ByREUTERS
PROTESTERS DEMONSTRATE outside the ICE immigration detention center in Adelanto, California, last month

Mexican children shiver in tents at US border as temperature freezes

Weather forecasts predict freezing temperatures in the Ciudad Juarez-El Paso area through the weekend.

DECEMBER 19, 2019ByREUTERS
An asylum-seeking child plays in an encampment where he lives in Matamoros

N.Y. Governor criticizes AOC’s concentration camps remarks

"There is no comparison to the Holocaust, period.”

JUNE 29, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
NEW YORK, NY - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo marches during the annual Celebrate Israel Parade on June 3, 2018 in New York City.