Nine people face federal charges for allegedly running a firearms trafficking scheme, accused of using straw purchases to smuggle weapons to Mexico.

Border wall construction during President Donald Trump’s second term is far ahead of where it was at the same point in his first term, but Department of Homeland Security officials say it should be going much faster this time around.

The string of orange buoys mimics an earlier effort by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to wall off the Rio Grande.

The lower jawbone of an unknown person seems to lie in the very same spot it did a year ago, though the desert sun has bleached it. A handful of other sites of scattered human remains lie within a mile,

This article was originally published by Truthout. Ending immigration agents’ abuses requires reckoning with a long history of cruelty at the border. The idea of a “border crisis” has long been used by both Republicans and Democrats to justify harsh immigration policies.