U.S.-Mexico border

Military deployment to the U.S.-Mexico border has been extended until September 30.

The Trump administration does not have any "constitutional duty" to provide reunited families with the "post-release care they appear to be seeking," a Justice Department attorney said.

"Come Jan. 3rd, Donald Trump and his enablers will be forced to care," incoming Democratic congresswoman Rashida Tlaib tweeted.

"Her brother was killed by a drug trafficker, and then one of her older children was recruited in a drug gang...and that's why she decided to flee to the U.S.," U.S. Representative Jimmy Gomez said.

"It may seem like a lot of money to you...but it is a small sum compared to everything that the United States has stolen from Honduras," organizer Alfonso Guerrero Ulloa said.

Three days after the delivery, the family was transferred to a detention center in San Diego.

Asylum seekers have faced weeks of waiting in Tijuana, Mexico, with many kept in unsanitary conditions, according to the local government.

"What the police are doing is unfair. The truth is we are fighting for our rights," Honduran asylum seeker Gerson Madrid said.

"He did not say welcome them when they had the right papers. He did not say welcome them when there was zero risk," the Reverend James Martin said.

"We came to find the American dream and all we found was a nightmare," Central American asylum seeker Javier Gonzalez said.

"This is what they do. They're experts, and it shows," said Benjamin Attella, a logistics section chief for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

"DHS will not tolerate this type of lawlessness," Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said.

"Mexico should move the flag-waving Migrants, many of whom are stone cold criminals, back to their countries," President Donald Trump tweeted. "Do it by plane, do it by bus, do it any way you want, but they are NOT coming into the U.S.A."

"It should tell us something about her home country that a mother is willing to travel 2,000 miles with her 4-month-old son to come here," the Texas Democrat said.

The show of solidarity came as U.S. immigration agents deployed tear gas against hundreds of migrants who rushed the border.

Applying for refugee status "wasn't a crime for Jewish families fleeing Germany. It wasn't for targeted families fleeing Rwanda. It wasn't for communities fleeing war-torn Syria. And it isn't for those fleeing violence in Central America," said Ocasio-Cortez.

"We are cold and hungry," Honduran migrant Carlos Lopez said.

The DEA confiscated a shipment of canned jalapenos in Tijuana, Mexico, from a counterfeit company called La Comadre, according to a witness.

All Trump's claims about criminals and terrorists? Sure, there are likely a few bad eggs in any group of 6,000, but I never witnessed a single conflict.

"These policies violate every principle of decency, justice and compassion that we hold as Jews," said Rabbi Miriam Terlinchamp of Temple Sholom in Cincinnati.

"I will not tolerate Mexicans or anybody else acting in a violent way towards our men and women on the border," Nielsen said.

Migrants have a right not to be sent back to a country where they will face persecution—or even death.

As many as 7,200 Central American asylum seekers are roughly 1,130 miles from the nearest border crossing, in Texas.

It remains to be seen whether the group will make it to the U.S. border.

"Since the day he took office, the Trump administration has implemented policies intended to prevent vulnerable asylum seekers fleeing persecution in their home countries from seeking protection in the U.S.," the Southern Poverty Law Center said.

"If the large Caravan of people heading to the U.S. is not stopped and brought back to Honduras, no more money or aid will be given to Honduras, effective immediately!" President Donald Trump has warned.

The Trump administration has reportedly accused hundreds of Hispanic people living along the U.S.-Mexico border of having fake birth certificates, revoking some of their passports.

The U.S. has seen an increase in the number of Indian nationals arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border to claim asylum.

U.S. Border Patrol agents say a 30-year-old U.S. citizen impersonated a first responder in an attempt to smuggle three people across a U.S. border checkpoint.

José Antonio Elena Rodríguez, 16, "had a Fourth Amendment right to be free from the unreasonable use of deadly force by an American agent," a court ruled in a landmark decision.