U.S.–Mexico border

The federal government has now admitted that it has been actively flying illegal immigrants directly into the United States.

Allowing foreigners to enter the US and be quickly released into the country is encouraging record numbers of illegal immigrants, officials contend.

Women and children are typically moved out of the encampments to processing centers before men, usually within two or three hours, but sometimes they wait days.

The number is larger than the last six years combined.

Texas has been ordered by a federal judge to move a floating barrier of buoys deployed in the Rio Grande to deter illegal immigrants from crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.