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.

Last week Ana Mendoza got something she'd never had: recognition from the federal government.

NAFTA opened the border to rapid industrialization, but implemented only limited provisions for dealing with the environmental fallout.

Jose Sanchez Villalobos is accused of building and operating the most sophisticated drug tunnel ever discovered along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The TRUST Act would have limited cooperation between local police and federal agents to deport undocumented immigrants.

The Immigration Policy Center claims Border Patrol agents are helping translate for local police as a pretext for deporting people.

A nonprofit's survey found that additional voting requirements in 23 states could conspire to keep Latinos and other minorities from the polls.

The new system aims to reach out to California's six million eligible citizens who are not registered to vote.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals faulted a local judge and U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy's office for keeping important testimony from a jury.

A survey finds the media influences how people feel about Latinos.

The Department of Homeland Security has released new deportation statistics, and they show the number of immigrants being removed from the U.S. reaching all-time highs. Or do they?

The office will issue the school documents students need to qualify for the government's work permit and deportation reprieve program.

Eduardo Arellano-Felix will face federal prosecution for his alleged role in running Tijuana's most powerful drug cartel.

The bill now awaits the governor's signature, and would limit local law enforcement's ability to hand arrested undocumented immigrants over to federal agents.

San Diego County Sheriff says when he found out, he ordered federal immigration agents out of North County offices.

Analysis of Census data finds Latinos now make up the largest ethnic minority group on four-year college campuses.

Imperial County's water is being sold to thirsty Los Angeles and San Diego, raising fears that fallowed land is worsening an already bad asthma problem there.

The Federal Highway Administration said new highway projects must stop because the California county hasn't taken steps to improve air quality.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency director Lisa Jackson joined her Mexican counterpart to commit to find bi-national solutions to environmental hazards along the U.S.-Mexico border.

State Senator Christine Kehoe withdrew her request for a state audit following concerns Escondido was illegally overcharging drivers whose cars were towed.

Southern California has one of the nation's highest concentrations of hate groups, and law enforcement partners with anti-hate nonprofits to solve and prevent hate crimes.

An attorney for the family of a man who died after an encounter with San Diego border agents said a federal grand jury has been called to investigate the incident.

Brothers Raul and Fidel Villarreal are accused of using their positions as Border Patrol agents to smuggle undocumented immigrants from Tijuana to San Diego.

Community advocates in the border neighborhood of San Ysidro fear U.S. government plans to inspect cars before they leave the U.S. will cause more congestion and pollution.

Undocumented immigrants are warned to avoid unlicensed consultants who promise immediate help.

President Barack Obama eased enforcement of immigration laws Friday, offering a chance for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants to stay in the country and work. Immediately embraced by Hispanics, the extraordinary step touched off an election-year confrontation with congressional Republicans.

Facing a voting-rights lawsuit, the Escondido City Council will ask voters decide whether to implement district elections, which could help more Latinos get elected.

Graffiti on a long-respected Sherman Heights mural suggests a neighborhood rivalry, and an activist says it's a wake-up call.

At the forum organized by the La Raza Lawyers Association, candidates discussed the education gap, minority businesses, immigration and the border.

Son Jarocho is a musical style with roots in rural southern Mexico, but in recent years its popularity has surged in Mexican cities and in the U.S.

The ACLU is calling for an investigation into alleged abuse by Customs and Border Protection agents along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Activists launched a national campaign asking the Justice Department to investigate the 2010 death of Anastasio Hernandez Rojas.

Federal regulators said the loss of a power line in Arizona sparked the blackout. But they said if the electricity grid had been operating properly, it should have prevented the ensuing blackout, which affected millions in Southern California, Arizona and Northern Mexico.

Undocumented immigrants arrested for minor traffic violations will no longer be subject to deportation unless they're convicted.

A Pew Hispanic Center Study found that during a five-year period, just as many Mexican immigrants returned to Mexico as arrived in the U.S.

Bulldozers took to the building six weeks after Walmart announced it would convert it into one of its stores.

Agents spotted the boat two miles off the coast of Ocean Beach and swarmed it when made landfall.

A proposal to line Broadway with palm trees would come at the expense of more than 100 shade trees.

A lawsuit working its way through the court system alleges the city's current system for electing city council members disenfranchises Latinos. Proponents want the city to implement district-wide elections.

The ACLU says it is more concerned than ever that Escondido has been illegally profiting from the controversial checkpoints.

A 32-year-old Iraqi immigrant died Saturday, three days after she was discovered brutally beaten at her home in El Cajon. Indications of a possible hate crime have shaken residents of the city, which is home to thousands of Iraqi refugees.

The Department of Justice investigated the company after a woman complained that a California store refused to hire her even though she provided paperwork showing she was authorized to work in the U.S.

As the economy recovers from the Great Recession, Asians and Latinos are getting jobs faster than other ethnic groups, according to analysis from the Pew Hispanic Center. Part of the reason: they are the fastest growing ethnic groups in the country.

The new documentary tells the story about the journalists at Zeta, a Tijuana newspaper that reports on the drug war, corruption and other controversial issues in the Mexican border city. Several journalists have been slain, presumably for their work.

A California Watch report finds 34 majority-minority cities in California have only one or no minorities on the city council. Part of the reason is at-large elections in which voters - often white – choose the winners.

Last year was the Border Patrol's first recorded drop in maritime apprehensions.

For the first time in its 19-year history, the San Diego Latino Film Festival's theme is Latinos in the U.S. It will also feature events with Latino television stars.

Newly wealthy tribes are buying private land and asking the federal government to add it to their reservations, making it sovereign Indian territory. The consequence: local governments stand to lose vital tax revenue.

How bad has drug war violence been in Mexico? A new report says 50,000 people murdered in the last five years. The report from the University of San Diego assesses the death toll of drug cartel violence in Mexico. Researchers have pinpointed where the most deaths have occurred and trace the root causes of the violence.

A University of San Diego report found that drug-related killings decreased along the border last year, even as violence grew across Mexico.