Troops watch from the river bank as people cross a river with a helicopter overhead.

Texas empowers National Guard to make immigration arrests

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he has empowered the National Guard to make immigration arrests, the latest move by the Republican ally of President Donald Trump to help crack down on immigration and secure the border.

Hegseth meets with troops sent to border with Mexico as 150 Marines deploy to Guantanamo

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shook hands Monday with troops at Fort Bliss for a deployment on the U.S. border with Mexico as Marines unloaded at Naval Base Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to begin work on migrant detention facilities.

Ric Grenell, former acting director of National Intelligence, speaks during the Republican National Convention (RNC) at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US, on Wednesday, July 17, 2024. MUST CREDIT: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg

Trump’s envoy Grenell in Venezuela to discuss US prisoners, gang members

An adviser for US President Donald Trump is set to meet with officials from the government of Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, part of an early effort at engaging with the sanctioned leader of the oil-rich nation.

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Haiti leader says elections can be held this year even as gangs continue their rampage

The head of Haiti’s embattled presidential council says he believes that both a reform of the country’s constitution and general elections to put a legitimate government back in charge can take place before the end of the year.

Razor wire and a control tower in Guantanamo Bay.

Migrants were detained at Guantánamo Bay before Trump’s order. Here’s what to know.

U.S. government agencies and private contractors have used facilities at Guantánamo Bay to detain asylum seekers and refugees for several decades, rights groups say. In 1994 under President Bill Clinton, for instance, the facility’s migrant population totaled 45,000.

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Denmark orders ships for Greenland after Trump demands

Danish lawmakers agreed in 2021 to design new navy ships for patrolling and environmental clean-up operations in the Baltic Sea. The project will now be shifted to focus on acquiring vessels equipped for tasks around Greenland because of “a significantly changed security situation,” Denmark’s defense minister said.

A U.S. Marine with 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division, adjusts concertina wire along the southern border wall near San Ysidro, Calif., Jan. 27, 2025. U.S. Northern Command is working together with the Department of Homeland Security with the emplacement of physical barriers to add additional security that will curtail illegal border crossings. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Caleb Goodwin)

Armed troops arrive in Texas, California to begin work at the southwest border

Marines began to hang temporary barriers along a wall in San Ysidro, Calif., marking the U.S. border with Mexico as an Air Force flight crew prepared to take off from Texas to Ecuador with the military’s fourth planeload of deported migrants.

US Army soldiers patrol the US-Mexico border at Eagle Pass, Texas, on Jan. 24, 2025. US President Donald Trump ordered 1,500 more military personnel to the border with Mexico as part of a flurry of steps to tackle immigration, his spokeswoman said on January 22. Border security is a key priority for the president, who declared a national emergency at the US frontier with Mexico on his first day in office, and the additional personnel will bring the total number of active-duty troops deployed there to around 4,000. (Charly Triballeau/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sends additional soldiers to border with Mexico

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered 400 soldiers Monday to the Rio Grande Valley, escalating efforts to secure the state’s border with Mexico as President Donald Trump sends military reinforcements after declaring a state of emergency along the border.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection security agents guide a group of illegal aliens onboard a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft assigned to the 60th Air Mobility Wing for a removal flight at Fort Bliss, Texas, on Jan. 23, 2025. Under the direction of U.S. Northern Command, U.S. Transportation Command is supporting Immigration and Customs Enforcement removal flights by providing military airlift. (Dept. of Defense photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Nicholas J. De La Pena)

Trump officials issue quotas to ICE officers to ramp up arrests

The administration wants to increase the number of arrests from a few hundred per day to at least 1,200 to 1,500.

U.S. Marines with 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division, load concertina wire onto a 7-ton truck at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Jan. 22, 2025, in preparation to deploy to the southern border. U.S. Northern Command is working together with the Department of Homeland Security with the emplacement of temporary physical barriers to add additional security that will curtail illegal border crossings. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Diego Berumen)

Plans for Trump’s border mission include combat vehicles, infantry

U.S. officials are preparing to send thousands of additional troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, including, potentially, soldiers equipped with 20-ton Stryker combat vehicles, according to four U.S. officials familiar with the planning.