The possibility of being criminally prosecuted and separated from their children, the government argued, would deter migrants from making the dangerous journey north.

Patricia Mejia gathered her three young children and made the arduous journey through Mexico to the U.S. border to escape El Salvador's often deadly violence. When Border Patrol agents found the...

A new report shows hundreds of cases in which the deported parents of migrant children who were taken from their families cannot be located.

For many separated immigrant families, a federal judge’s ruling to reunite them may have come too late. Confusion over conflicting directives has sparked chaos across the border as lawyers race...

The case shows how challenging it is to reunite immigrant parents and children once they are separated at the border under an expanded new policy by President Donald Trump.

Before “zero tolerance” was rolled out nationwide, Sergio Garcia found himself up against a secret pilot project to test family separation in El Paso.

The search for parents separated from their children at the U.S.-Mexico border is still ongoing. But because of the spread of the pandemic, the effort was put on hold for months.

Top department officials were “a driving force” behind President Trump’s child separation policy, a draft investigation report said.

Thousands of migrant children — including babies — have been expelled by the Trump administration since March. Some have been held in hotels without access to lawyers or family. Advocates say many…

Children from Central America are being sent across the border to Mexico, where they may not have any family. An internal email said the transfers violated the government’s own policies.

A squalid tent camp on the border is the result of President Trump’s unprecedented limits on asylum. Some people have waited in filthy conditions for more than a year to obtain refuge in the United...

Democrats agree that Trump’s caused asylum-seekers unacceptable misery. But the goal of deterring people from migrating to the U.S. — which has motivated Trump’s complex web of border policies — has…