Ahead of the inauguration, migrant shelters south of the Rio Grande are far from full, a reflection of the tougher measures imposed on both sides of the border. Ahead of the inauguration, migrant ...

The plan would put a strip along the southern border under Pentagon control, allowing the military to detain migrants for trespassing on a military base until Border Patrol agents could arrest them.

Lt. Col. Phillip Mason stood on a narrow peninsula in early April just west of downtown San Diego, overlooking the coastal border between the U.S. and Mexico as a seasonal fog obscured the view. Mason ...