MIGRANTS

Images of the Centro de Bienvenidos for migrants, construction along the St. Mary's Strip construction and more make up the past week's top photos.

The daily number of people passing through the center ranges from under 1,000 to up to 1,800 already, one city official said, and an assistant city manager estimates the number of migrants coming through the MRC will jump by about 30% with the end of Title 42.

A suspected human smuggler led a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper on a chase that ended in a crash in Val Verde County.

Rishi Sunak promises to fix the system, but Keir Starmer says the government has "lost control".

Officials raised concerns that failing to move people to hotels was unlawful, sources tell the BBC.

This Thursday marks four months since a tractor-trailer full of bodies was discovered on Quintana Road. The Honduran mother of two migrants that died was set to be in San Antonio this weekend, but she said her visa was later revoked.

The State of Texas previously denied any involvement with the flight that departed on September 14 with nearly 50 migrants on board.

Screenshots of text messages give insight into the communication between migrants and Perla Huerta, the woman allegedly at the center of the migrant flights.

The changes come in a joint effort by the U.S. and Mexico to slow down human smuggling operations.

The League Of Latin American Citizens or LULAC identified the person allegedly connected to luring migrants onto charted flights in September. Why the nonprofit fears she might be a flight risk.

As Kinney County sees an increase in human smuggling, the people of Brackettville are adjusting to the influx as well.

Washington D.C., New York City, Chicago, San Antonio seek advice from director of Catholic Charities RGV for migrant response.

The League of United Latin American Citizens fights misinformation among migrants transported out of state

A group of migrants sent as part of a political stunt to Martha's Vineyard were persuaded to get on the plane under false pretences, NPR reported.

The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that the eight suspects coordinated the transportation of the migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border to other parts of the country.

Attorneys for Christian Martinez asked for home confinement due to health issues.

The City of El Paso sent a busload of 35 Venezuelan migrants to New York City last week, around the same time Gov. Greg Abbott took similar action without warning.

One of the men facing federal charges in connection with the tractor-tractor incident on the city’s Southwest Side in June that resulted in the deaths of 53 people pleaded not guilty Thursday, according to the US Magistrate’s Office.

It’s an operation that Brooks County sheriffs deputies say knows no time and has no bounds. Smuggling of migrants can happen in backroads or in high traffic areas. Reporter Alicia Barrera and photojournalist Sal Salazar take you to areas where migrants are often loaded up to be smuggled across the nation.

Operation Lone Star has helped fund the miles of concertina wire and militarization along the U.S. border. But how are funds invested in communities more than 80 miles north of the border? Reporter Alicia Barrera and photojournalist Sal Salazar visit Brooks County for a closer look.

A federal grand jury in San Antonio on Wednesday indicted two men charged in the June fatal tractor-trailer incident on the city’s Southwest Side that resulted in the deaths of 53 people and 11 more injured.

Neighbors and local businesses said they were caught off-guard by the opening of the center, and since then the reception has been a mixture of “not-in-my-neighborhood” to compassion for the asylum seekers.

The world has not forgotten the 53 migrants who died in the back of a tractor-trailer on Quintana Road several weeks ago.

Less than 24 hours after opening new processing facility in Eagle Pass, Border Patrol agents say its almost at capacity.

In two recent mass casualty events, the San Antonio Fire Department's AMBUS has been utilized to help first responders.

Kinney County and several other counties have declared an “invasion” in Texas by migrants, and officials want Gov. Greg Abbott to recognize the problem and treat it as such.

The Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office announced Tuesday that all the fatality victims of the migrant tragedy have potentially been identified.

It’s been one week since 53 migrants died on the city’s Southwest Side after being discovered in a tractor-trailer, and a growing memorial is honoring their lives with the names of victims added to the display.

Authorities have released the names of two children who were among the dozens of people killed after being left in an abandoned tractor-trailer on the Southwest Side last Monday in San Antonio.

Hundreds of people were gathered in prayer inside the San Fernando Cathedral on Thursday evening, mourning the deaths of 53 migrants inside of a tractor-trailer.

Four immigrants were killed and two were critically injured in what a Texas Department of Public Safety official called “another deadly human smuggling event.”

Lily Marlene Hernandez has been calling every government agency and consulate office she can think of and local hospitals to find her brother, 20-year-old Pablo Hernandez.

Border Patrol hosts security event Tuesday morning in the Rio Grande Valley. The event is aimed to cast a light on dangers undocumented immigrants face when entering the US.

Less than a week after Governor Greg Abbott announced "aggressive action" at the border ahead of Title 42 ending, the busing of migrants has begun, as has mass migrant response rehearsals by the Texas Military Department.

A traffic stop near Uvalde on Wednesday led to the discovery of 46 immigrants in the back of a tractor-trailer belly-dump rig.

Immigration authorities in Mexico say the bodies of two children, apparently migrants, have been found in the waters of the Rio Grande.

From October 2020 through September 2021, agents encountered roughly 1,733,652 million migrants, surpassing fiscal year 2000, when 1,643,679 border encounters were logged.

Thousands of troops patrol the border, where migrants have tried to enter Poland from Belarus.

In March, Border Patrol agents encountered more migrants in a single month than they have since 2006, according to the latest numbers provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

San Antonians are stepping in to help thousands of Haitian migrants who crossed the Rio Grande River from Mexico into Del Rio.

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas will be in Del Rio on Monday to receive an operational briefing on steps being taken to address the situation involving the mass expulsion of Haitian migrants from the border city.

Three Cubans caught trying to cross a river into Estonia are said to have been heading for Spain.

Gov. Greg Abbott will visit the Texas border with former President Donald Trump on Wednesday.

Gov. Greg Abbott will visit the Texas border with former President Donald Trump. Here's what you need to know.

Gov. Greg Abbott will host a Border Security Summit on Thursday in Del Rio.

Vice President Kamala Harris arrives in Mexico and Guatemala next week for her first foreign diplomatic visit, and an expert on both countries said don’t expect the flow of migrants at the border to stop in the near future.

Laredo and Del Rio are about 180 miles apart, and so are their mayors to some degree in their reaction to Gov. Greg Abbott’s disaster declaration for border counties.

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar and U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales will tour the Texas-Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley on Wednesday to get an update on the migrant surge in the region. The congressional delegation from Texas will be joined by Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona.

The remaining young male migrants who temporarily called Freeman Coliseum home left the facility Monday.

A longstanding way of transporting large numbers of undocumented immigrants, tractor-trailer smuggling, has been on the rise in the U.S. Border Patrol Laredo sector.

Locating the graves of migrants who died entering the U.S. illegally is the starting point for the grim, often complex task undertaken by Operation Identification at the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State University.

Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff called Governor Greg Abbott’s allegations of sexual abuse at the Freeman Coliseum migrant facility “completely false” on Monday.

Kinney County issued a declaration of disaster over the rise of migrants entering the country at the U.S. border.

There's growing evidence that climate change may be all but forcing Guatemalans to migrate to the U.S. Manuel Bojoquez reports.

Thousands of migrants trying to make their way into Europe through Greece are finding themselves stuck in border camps with little food and filthy conditions. Jonathan Vigliotti reports.

Migrants who broke into a freight truck in France were more than shocked to find a polar bear waiting for them. CBSN's Vladimir Duthiers and Kristine Johnson have more more on the surprising run-in.

Migrants attempting to enter Hungary are running out of options, as Hungary erected border fences and is arresting those who sneak through. Charlie D'Agata reports from Horgos, Serbia.

Migrants attempting the perilous crossing to Europe must now also risk harassment and sabotage. Holly Williams has the latest.