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US-Mexico border

News about the US-Mexico border, including comment and features from the Guardian

October 2026

  • a man stands behind a gate and looks at construction equipment and a partially built border fence

    Building power
    A small Texas town stopped Trump’s border wall construction – for now

    As they had in the past, San Ygnacio residents banded together to stop a development threatening their town

September 2026

  • wide view of worker standing on an excavator beside newly installed border wall slats in Big Bend, Texas

    Trump administration pushes on with construction of controversial Big Bend border wall

  • A family in the Mexican town of El Alberto, featured in the documentary Night of the Coyotes

    Night of the Coyotes review – border-crossing role-play is tourist attraction in struggling Mexican town

August 2026

  • An older woman looks at rock art.

    Trump’s border wall construction threatens rock art as old as the pyramids: ‘The ancestors are still here’

  • a border wall

    Rise in migrant deaths as 19 bodies found along Arizona border last month

  • A woman behind a counter with a sign that reads, 'No Western Union' in a grocery store

    The US tried to stop cartel money-laundering. It devastated mom-and-pop businesses instead

  • Aerial view of a dirt border fence road in Arizona, with felled cottonwood tree stumps beside it

    Protesters occupy 200-year-old tree at US-Mexico border to stop its destruction: ‘She’s our Statue of Liberty’

  • Crews building Trump border wall in drought-hit New Mexico ordered to stop drilling wells

  • Benjamin Alire Sáenz, first Latino winner of PEN/Faulkner award, dies aged 71

July 2026

  • A still pond surrounded by reeds and grasses, with desert hills and vegetation in the background

    This desert oasis is a biological wonderland. Trump’s border wall threatens to destroy it

    Environmental groups are sounding the alarm over plans that threaten a desert spring that’s home to rare fish and turtles and sacred to the O’odham people
  • A freight train with shipping containers crosses a rail bridge over a river

    11 people indicted over deaths of six people in cargo container in Texas

    Six migrants from Honduras and Mexico – including 14-year-old boy – were found dead in May near US-Mexico border
  • Stickers protesting a proposed border wall adorn the back of a vehicle

    America's unsung heroes
    ‘I’ve never worked with so many conservatives’: the Texans fighting the Big Bend border wall

    Residents across party lines say Trump’s proposed wall threatens their homes, livelihoods and wilderness along the Rio Grande

June 2026

  • people walk up a ramp

    Supreme court lets Trump turn back asylum seekers at US-Mexico border

    Decision allows Trump administration to block migrants from entering US soil and the right to claim asylum
  • a river flows in a canyon

    ‘It’s massive destruction’: outcry in Texas over waivers to allow border wall in Big Bend national park

    Despite plunging border crossings, Trump administration is circumventing laws to expedite building in a vast, pristine wilderness

    • Building power
      ‘They have nothing else to lose’: Delaney Hall hunger strikes are a hallmark of resistance in detention

    • Four charged after 'sophisticated' US to Mexico drug tunnel discovered – video

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    • One-ton cocaine bust reveals secret US-Mexico tunnel

May 2026

  • Barbed wire fences frame a view of orange buoys floating in the Rio Grande with scrubland beyond

    ‘A horrible way to die’: after deaths in Laredo, experts prepare for lethal summer heat at US-Mexico border

  • US Cargo Train Car DeathsIn this image taken from video footage provided by KGNS, Union Pacific signage is displayed at a rail yard in Laredo, Texas, Sunday, May 10, 2026. (KGNS via AP)

    Deaths of at least six people believed to be due to heat inside shipping container in Texas

April 2026

  • a partially constructed border fence between two countries

    Court blocks Trump’s executive order suspending asylum access

    Appellate panel finds president can’t circumvent laws that allow people to apply for asylum at the US-Mexico border
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