They hope their findings will influence better border infrastructure design.

A widely touted Border Patrol initiative to send migrants back to Mexico far from the points they are caught entering the U.S. illegally has one of the worst track records at discouraging people from trying again, according to a new study.

The Tijuana perfume salesman, who said he didn't know drugs were in the car, won an appeal after the government destroyed evidence in the case.

Eleven million has become the most cited statistic in the immigration reform debate. We take a closer look at the number.

A survey by the National Restaurant Association found that restaurant owners are generally supportive of the system for checking employees' eligibility to work.

The head of the U.S. Olympic Committee confirmed San Diego-Tijuana want to host the 2024 Summer Games.

The gate was built into the border fence for maintenance, but has never been opened. Activists swung it open Sunday — briefly — in a gesture of binational friendship.

Hundreds of people marched through downtown San Diego on Friday, calling on President Barack Obama to stop workplace immigration enforcement until an immigration reform bill is passed.

Grossmont Union High School District is among the schools singled out for not providing adequate English instruction to foreign language speakers.

The U.S. Justice Department has settled an antitrust lawsuit against Anheuser-Busch InBev. That clears the way for the world's largest brewer to buy out Grupo Modelo, the Mexican company that makes Corona beer. How do Mexicans feel about the merger?

Agent Luis Fonseca had been accused of beating and choking an immigrant at a Border Patrol station.

Binational LGBT spouses had hoped to gain immigration rights, but senators excluded them from their bill.

Immigrant rights activists and business groups say the bill is a good first step, but they'll still lobby for changes.

Nearly $300 million of the federal budget would go to expand border crossings in San Diego and Laredo, Texas.

Unions hope legalization for 11 million immigrants without authorization will make organizing those immigrants easier.

The agency had warned of long border waits and fewer agents on the ground, but those haven't come to pass.

Two alleged leaders of a San Diego drug gang with roots to the Arellano-Felix drug cartel in Tijuana are on trial in San Diego for multiple murders. The trial could take a year, at a time when the county court system is dealing with massive budget cuts.

The defendants are alleged members of a splinter group of Tijuana's Arellano-Felix cartel.

Since the start of the Iraq War, more than 11,000 Iraqis have arrived in the city of El Cajon, east of San Diego.

University of San Diego researchers say the problem of cross-border arms trafficking is worse than previously thought, but their findings come with caveats.

As Congress and the White House continue to work on a comprehensive immigration-reform package, a coalition of San Diego leaders today are launching a joint local campaign.

A federal court has ruled that border agents can only go so far when it comes to searching border crossers' digital devices without reasonable suspicion of a crime.

For the second semester in a row, San Diego State University's Chicano Studies department has fallen short of enrollment targets, despite a record number of Latinos on campus.

Mexican federal prosecutors say the union boss bought two homes in Coronado and spent more than $2 million at Fashion Valley's Neiman Marcus store, all with stolen money.

An online video shows Tijuana youth celebrating a pothole's birthday to pressure the city to complete repairs.

The law that makes it easy for a U.S. citizen to adjust a spouse's immigration status doesn't apply to gay couples, who want that addressed as immigration reform takes shape.

The report originally appeared in the U.K.'s Daily Express newspaper.

The number of homicides dropped to between 20,000 and 25,000 last year, and between 45 to 60 percent of those were organized-crime-style murders.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) fined 10 businesses in San Diego and Imperial counties more than $173,800 for hiring “unlawful” employees.

In the 1980s, immigration reform was described as a three-legged stool: amnesty for undocumented immigrants, and border and workplace enforcement to prevent future ones.

As talk of immigration reform heats up, farmers want to streamline the guest worker program, while advocates generally oppose it.

Tougher border security in San Diego has driven would-be border crossing migrants east, to the deserts of Arizona and Texas.

A Tijuana nonprofit is opening the city’s first composting center with U.S. funding as part of an effort to reduce waste that affects both sides of the border.

The mayor's staff in Tijuana will focus on encouraging binational economic development.

Tom Fremantle and his adopted street dog Pancho walked 1,000 miles, crisscrossing the border between CIudad Juarez and Tijuana.

The wait to cross into San Diego from Tijuana can top three hours on weekdays and five on weekends, straining crossers' sanity, bladders and the regional economy.

KPBS takes a look at the news made at the U.S.-Mexico border this year with our Fronteras Desk reporters Adrian Florido and Jill Replogle.

Activists are fighting to save a natural watershed that runs through some of Tijuana's poorest neighborhoods from concrete.

Advocates had criticized the agency for allegedly using its interpretation services as an opportunity to deport people.

Fifteen arrests were made this week as the result of an investigation into a large drug trafficking operation.

Norma Chavez-Peterson's appointment to associate director signals the ACLU's growing focus on Latino civil rights.

Commission for Environmental Cooperation finds costlier U.S. regulations have led companies to send batteries south of the border for recycling.

Batman! Hello Kitty! Santa Claus! They're all for sale, cast in plaster, as you wait to cross the border.

About 40 percent of new voters registered in San Diego County since February have been Latino, according registrar statistics.

The race for the 52nd Congressional District is among more than a dozen that immigrant rights activists are focusing on nationwide.

After ACLU lawsuit, Escondido agrees not to disperse protesters who stake out public sidewalks to record police conducting checkpoints.

DREAM Act supporters protested outside Congressman Brian Bilbray's office Thursday, and an immigrant rights coalition started running radio ads against him.

Cars leaving San Diego and entering Tijuana are finding the exit from the U.S. doesn't line up with the entrance to Mexico.

Proposition 35 would send sex traffickers to prison for up to a life term.

The Department of Homeland Security is reviewing border patrol use of force guidelines. The move is prompted by an increase in deaths in recent years.