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In this Thursday, May 2, 2019, photo, Border Patrol agents hold a news conference prior to a media tour of a new U.S. Customs and Border Protection temporary facility near the Donna International Bridge in Donna, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) **FILE**

Illegal immigrant who tried to escape dies in Border Patrol custody

An illegal immigrant who became "unruly" and tried to escape from agents in Texas last week became "unresponsive" and died soon after, the Border Patrol said Friday, saying the incident has sparked a review of how migrants are detained and transported in the field.

August 6, 2021
Three young migrants hold hands as they run in the rain at an intake area after turning themselves in upon crossing the U.S.-Mexico border Tuesday, May 11, 2021, in Roma, Texas. The number of unaccompanied children encountered on the U.S. border with Mexico in April eased from an all-time high a month earlier, while more adults were found coming without families, authorities said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) **FILE**

New record for illegal immigrant kids at border

Agents and officers detained 834 illegal immigrant children traveling the border without parents on Tuesday, shattering the previous daily total in records released by the Department of Homeland Security and signaling the situation on the U.S.-Mexico border is deteriorating.

August 5, 2021
In this Thursday, June 10, 2021, photo, a pair of migrant families from Brazil pass through a gap in the border wall to reach the United States after crossing from Mexico to Yuma, Ariz., to seek asylum. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia) **FILE**

MS-13 arrests plummet amid border surge

Border arrests of MS-13 gang members have dropped dramatically amid the new border surge, a senior Republican senator said this week, warning that the criminals are still sneaking across but they're avoiding detection amid the chaos of the unprecedented wave of illegal immigration.

August 5, 2021
A Border Patrol vehicle sits near the border wall separating Mexicali, Mexico from Calexico, Calif., in Calexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) **FILE**

Border wall workers pelted by rocks from Mexico

People on the Mexican side of the border pelted U.S. construction workers making repairs on the border wall in Arizona this week, Homeland Security Department officials said Thursday.

August 5, 2021
In this Tuesday, June 8, 2021, photo, a group of Brazilian migrants make their way around a gap in the U.S.-Mexico border in Yuma, Ariz., seeking asylum in the United States after crossing over from Mexico. The Biden administration says it has identified more than 3,900 children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border under former President Donald Trump's "zero-tolerance" policy on illegal crossings. The Border Patrol's Yuma sector recorded the highest number of separations of the agency's nine sectors on the Mexican border. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia) **FILE**

Illegal immigrants from Brazil soar at border, up 114,000%

Illegal immigrants from Brazil are streaming across the U.S.-Mexico border at astronomical rates, Homeland Security officials said Wednesday, calling them a unique strain on the nation's border defenses in southern California.

August 4, 2021
In this June 12, 2018, photo, Mitchell, S.D., Assistant Police Chief Michael Koster shows a first-generation body camera at the police department in Mitchell, S.D. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on August 4, 2021, announced that it has outfitted its first group of Border Patrol agents with body cameras as part of a push to get 6,000 cameras into the field by the end of this year. (Briana Sanchez/The Argus Leader via AP, File)/The Argus Leader via AP) **FILE**

Border agents, officers start using body cameras

Homeland Security has outfitted a first group of Border Patrol agents with body cameras as part of a push to get 6,000 cameras into the field by the end of this year, the department announced Wednesday.

August 4, 2021