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Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan has resigned after spending six months on the job, according to a tweet Friday night from President Donald Trump. Interested in Donald Trump? Add Donald Trump as an interest to stay up to date on the latest…

(Reuters) - The images were dramatic: Central American migrants moving northward en masse through Mexico - men, women and children walking up to 30 miles a day, some hitching rides or catching freight trains. The caravans of 2018 and early 2019 were not the…

This story is a follow-up to a December 2018 report by Yahoo News, photojournalist Fabio Bucciarelli and videographer Francesca Tosarelli of a familys quest to seek asylum in the U.S. to flee the violence of Honduras. Video produced by Gabrielle Levesque. Mi…

Bulldozers are clearing the way to build a new wall on the border between Mexico and the United States.The wall is a $5bn commitment by US President Donald Trump to stop asylum seekers getting into the US.But experts say the environmental cost of the wall may…

Bulldozers are clearing the way to build a new wall on the border between Mexico and the United States. The wall is a $5bn commitment by US President Donald Trump to stop asylum seekers getting into the US. But experts say the environmental cost of the wall…

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) apprehended nearly one million migrants at the southern border with Mexico in fiscal year 2019, which ended in September, according to newly released figures by the agency — 88% higher than apprehensions in 2018. “The…

From Tucson to Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, its 126 miles of largely open road. Theres just one area where traffic is likely to slow down, right after the barely-there town of Why and just before you hit the park. There, a white canopy extends over t…

President Donald Trump talks with reporters as he tours a section of the southern border wall, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019, in Otay Mesa, Calif., as acting Homeland Secretary Kevin McAleenan listens, (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) President Donald Trump's response to a…

The Trump administration has run roughshod over environmental laws in a rush to build an unnecessary border wall. And in footage that emerged on Friday, construction efforts are just running roughshod over the environment, period. One of the first stretches …

When Paul Salopek was twenty-three, his motorcycle broke down on a lonely road in the sand near Roswell, New Mexico. He was on his way to find work at a fishery to eventually pay for a graduate degree in environmental biology; instead, he got a job at a local…