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San Diego, California-Aug. 10, 2022-A U.S. Border Patrol agent patrols along the U.S. - Mexico border east of Otay Mesa, San Diego, California on Aug. 10, 2022. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Border shooting in San Diego County: Marksman killed man assaulting migrants, feds say

Federal officials say a man was fatally shot by a border patrol marksman March 3 in San Diego County because he was threatening migrants with a gun.

March 12, 2024

From left, Italian Senators Walter Verini, Ilaria Cucchi, and Ivan Scalfarotto exit a migrants repatriation center in Ponte Galeria, in the outskirts of Rome after a surprise visit, Wednesday, March 6, 2024. Pressure is building on Italy authorities to close the notorious migrant detention center of Ponte Galeria where Ousmane Sylla, a Guinean migrant, hung himself last month and visiting opposition senators described inhuman conditions for people ordered to leave Italy but still awaiting repatriation. (Valentina Stefanelli/LaPresse via AP)

Italy’s migrant detention centers in spotlight after death of Guinean and calls to close them down

March 11, 2024

FILE - Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala.,, speaks during a news conference on the border, Feb. 15, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Britt gave the Republican response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address Thursday, March 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Katie Britt used decades-old example of rapes in Mexico as GOP attack on Biden border policy

March 10, 2024

OLMITO, TEXAS - FEBRUARY 29: President Joe Biden delivers remarks about immigration and border security at the Brownsville Station on February 29, 2024 in Olmito, Texas. The President visited the border near Brownsville on the same day as a dueling trip made by former President Donald Trump to neighboring Eagle Pass, Texas. (Photo by Cheney Orr/Getty Images)

Opinion: The border crisis factor no one talks about: American guns

March 9, 2024

FILE - Migrants who crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico are lined up for processing by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. A federal judge in Texas on Friday, March 8, 2024, upheld a key piece of President Joe Biden’s immigration policy that allows a limited number of migrants from four countries to enter the U.S. on humanitarian grounds, dismissing a challenge from Republican-led states that said the program created an economic burden on them. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Judge dismisses states’ challenge to Biden program allowing entry to migrants from 4 countries

March 8, 2024

Military helicopter crashes near border in Texas, killing Border Patrol agent, 2 National Guardsmen

March 9, 2024

Biden, in fiery State of the Union, draws contrast with Trump, pitches vision for a second term

March 7, 2024

What will Biden say on immigration? Border agent and ‘Dreamers’ expected at State of the Union

March 7, 2024

More than 8,500 migrants died worldwide last year, a record since the U.N. started counting in 2014

March 6, 2024

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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas talks to the media, Friday, June 25, 2021, after he and Vice President Kamala Harris toured of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Central Processing Center in El Paso, Texas. Harris visited the U.S. southern border as part of her role leading the Biden administration's response to a steep increase in migration. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Mayorkas interview: DHS head talks about impeachment, border and growing up in L.A.

At Homeland Security headquarters, Mayorkas told The Times about his Los Angeles upbringing, his thoughts on the impeachment vote and the challenges before him.

Feb. 12, 2024

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