Yet even if the White House and Republicans agree that Guard troops should be sent to the border, there's little consensus on what exactly they'd be empowered to do. There's precedent for such a move.

Guards at the US-Mexico border, such as these, are tasked with keeping illegal migrants from entering the US. But a long-standing culture of corruption and silence has made it easier for illegal ...

The White House on Monday criticized the use of horse reins to threaten Haitian migrants after images circulated of a U.S. border guard on horseback charging at migrants near a riverside camp in ...

NewsNation’s Ali Bradley was in Eagle Pass when the Texas National Guard, Texas Department of Public Safety, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) conducted ground and aerial exercises ...

The 2024 presidential hopeful wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that his first action if elected to the White House will be to sign an executive order to send the National Guard ...

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott was the first to respond to Trump’s request, ordering 250 National Guard agents to the border. On Monday, Abbott said he would send an additional 1,000 troops.

Texas National Guard troops try to untangle an immigrant caught in razor wire after he crossed the U.S.-Mexico border into El Paso, Texas, on January 31 from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

WASHINGTON — Two whistle-blowers have accused contractors building President Trump’s border wall of smuggling armed Mexican security teams into the United States to guard construction sites ...

Mexico’s National Guard boosts border patrols in Tijuana as new barrier goes up by beach by: Salvador Rivera. Posted: Jan 25, 2024 / 05:05 PM PST. Updated: Jan 25, 2024 / 05:05 PM PST.