Max Rivlin-Nadler

People fleeing the war in Ukraine are arriving at the southern U.S. border and asking for asylum - but those efforts are being complicated by pandemic-era rules limiting entry into the country.

Eric Adams will be the city’s second Black mayor, and the first in 40 years to be born and raised in the city.

More migrants are granted humanitarian exceptions to a pandemic public health order that effectively closed the Southern border. U.S. officials are working with NGOs to identify the most vulnerable.

U.S. Border Patrol is rushing to finish a new section of the fence between California and Mexico. It would go right through an international park that has been a meeting place for separated families.

As the Trump administration has effectively shut down the asylum system at the border during the pandemic, one mother was given the choice to go to Mexico with or without her newborn, a U.S. citizen.

Border Patrol agents gave one asylum seeker who crossed the southern border a choice: Turn her U.S.-born baby over to child services here and leave the country, or return to Mexico with her child.

After months of not naturalizing new U.S. citizens due to the coronavirus shutdown, immigration officials have begun offering drive-through naturalization ceremonies that take just a few minutes.

Carlos Escobar-Mejia, 57, had been in ICE custody since Jan. 10, when he was stopped in a car by the Border Patrol in Chula Vista, Calif. Before then, he had been living in the U.S. for 40 years.

Pregnant asylum seekers who were told to remain in place in Mexico are now being barred from entering the U.S. for their asylum hearings until after they give birth, so finds a KPBS investigation.

A group of doctors from across the country are demanding to be allowed to vaccinate detained migrants against the flu. The group points to three minors who've died from the flu over the past year.

Syrian Kurdish families in San Diego are angry about President Trump's decision to pull troops from northern Syria. They say they feel betrayed after Kurdish fighters led efforts against ISIS.

Asylum-seekers waiting in Tijuana react to the high court ruling allowing the Trump administration — for now — to require that migrants seek protection in another country before applying in the U.S.

A new rule by the Trump administration regarding migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border have left them in limbo. The ACLU and other groups are challenging the rule in court.

In a new court filing, federal prosecutors accused Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., of using campaign money to fund several extramarital affairs with staffers and lobbyist.

A federal judge in California blocked the Trump administration's Migrant Protection Protocol policy that required asylum-seekers to return to Mexico as they await court hearings in the U.S.

A 2-mile section of border fence was replaced last year with a 30-foot steel pole wall. Residents on both sides of the border are concerned about rising tensions around cross-border traffic.

A jury found Chanel Lewis guilty of killing Karina Vetrano on Monday.

Eight steel-and-concrete mock-ups of border wall prototypes were put up near the San Diego-Tijuana border in 2017. They were supposed to represent the "next generation" of border barriers.

At the San Diego-Tijuana border, journalists covering the asylum-seekers are being pulled into questioning by customs and border agents. Lawyers and volunteers are facing the same scrutiny.

The Trump administration has started the policy of returning asylum-seekers to Mexico while they await their immigration hearings in the U.S. Several groups are challenging the new policy.