A legal challenge in the U.S. Supreme Court to the construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall was declared dead Monday. The justices declined to hear an appeal by the County of El Paso, Texas, to an earlier decision by a U.S. federal court judge that allowed the Bush administration to proceed with construction of the controversial wall. More...

A judge in Brownsville, Texas has granted the federal government's request to take over ancestral Lipan Apache land along the U.S.-Mexico border. More...

The U.S. Supreme Court is asked to hear an appeal challenging the constitutionality of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff's unprecedented and problematic seizure of legal authority along the U.S.-Mexico border. More...