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On Friday, CNN's Anderson Cooper sat down with one of the three Texas landowners who is pursuing a lawsuit against President Donald Trump over his border wall.Despite Congress approving funds for barriers and fencing at the US-Mexico border, the president declared a national emergency in an effort t...

The government has laid out plans that would cut across private land in the Rio Grande Valley.

President Donald Trump's White House wasn't interested in tracking the families they separated, according to one former Homeland Security staffer. During an interview with CBS's "60 Minutes," Scott Shuchart explained that not only was Homeland Security never consulted about Trump's new Executive Ord...

A recent case filed in federal court, in which an American woman had her iPhone seized and cracked by Customs and Border Protection in a New Jersey airport puts a whole new spin on the things we now need to worry about when leaving the country. It appears that now everyone's phones, despite country of origin or cause, are subject to nonconsensual seizure and search -- even if we refuse to give up our passwords. If you're not caught up on the story, news hit this week that a Staten Island mom coming home from a February trip with her 9-year-old daughter from Switzerland had her iPhone snatched, kept for months and accessed for no given reason. Apple did not respond to a request for comment by publication time.

A mother and daughter were flying back from a European vacation when an agent at Customs and Border Protection couldn't understand why their last names were different."I was asked if Sybonae was my daughter and I said yes," Sylvia Acosta wrote on Facebook. "Then they asked why if she was my daughter...

Trump hopes the courts will let him detain families like Obama did.

Terrible news from today’s Washington Examiner – see Trump administration could be holding 30,000 border kids by August, officials say. I’ve been regularly updating The Bes…

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Inside an old warehouse in South Texas, hundreds of children wait in a series of cages created by metal fencing. One cage had 20 children inside.

The government says the Office of Refugee Resettlement, charged with finding homes for solo children or those who have been separated from their families, has more than 10,000 children in shelters.

The Trump administration’s border policy deserves strong condemnation.

The Department of Homeland Security released the figures as President Trump sought to shift blame for practice that has become the signature policy of his immigration agenda.

Trauma can damage both the brain and the body, doctors say.

That's approximately 46 children a day over a six-week period.

The government said on Friday that 1,995 children were separated from 1,940 adults at the U.S.-Mexico border between April 19 and May 31, as the Trump administration implements stricter border enforcement policies.

The Trump administration has selected a border facility near El Paso to build a tent city with 450 beds for migrant children.

There’s a new, proposed backdoor to our data, which would bypass our Fourth Amendment protections to communications privacy. It is built into a dangerous bill called the CLOUD Act, which would allow police at home and abroad to seize cross-border data without following the privacy rules where the...

Complaints filed by people whose electronics were searched at the border without warrants highlight a growing debate over privacy, security and technology.

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Before you travel, here’s some information on what border agents can and cannot do, along with recommendations from lawyers.

The combination of 2014's Supreme Court decision not to hear Cotterman (where the 9th Circuit held that the data on your devices was subject to suspicionless border-searches, and suggested that…

The world of lonesome gunslingers and gold rushes has provided startlingly rich ground for bold adventurers from the realm of fantasy

A Canadian man has been charged with "obstructing border officials" after refusing to disclose his BlackBerry password to Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) officials when reentering Canada after a trip to the Dominican Republic.

"Myth America" tackles historical misinformation masks as patriotism through a series of essays by historians.

Inside the strife set off by an essay from the president of the American Historical Association

Indigenous people’s languages were largely lost as a result of forced assimilation efforts in the U.S. Here’s why one tribal leader says the languages should be brought back.

Nikole Hannah-Jones, author of “The 1619 Project" considers efforts to ban books as an assault on freedom.

A multigenerational fight for reparations is underway from Palm Springs to Gold Rush country

More control may mean that some materials won’t be as readily accessible to the public as they once were. But it also means that the descendants of the people on tape will decide what materials should be in the public realm.