John Burnett

President Trump's border wall comes at a staggering cost: $11 billion, or nearly $20 million per mile. It's already the most expensive border wall in the world, and the costs keep piling up.

Construction of the Trump administration's border wall has been slowed by difficulties acquiring private land, so the government is prioritizing construction inside federal nature sanctuaries.

In South Texas, there's skepticism that President Trump will get the 450 miles of wall he wants by Election Day. Construction is behind schedule because of how difficult it is to take private land.

Mexico's top cop is being charged with taking millions of dollars in bribes from the Sinaloa cartel in exchange for sensitive information and safe passage of drug shipments.

Some migrant parents who were told to wait in Mexico under President Trump's asylum policies are sending their children, unaccompanied, across the bridge to surrender to U.S. agents.

While the wall and asylum-seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border have drawn a lot of attention, heightened security at the northern border has changed the character of the once-neighborly frontier.

A meatpacking town in the Texas Panhandle is a magnet for immigrants who will do unpopular jobs. The once majority-white county has adjusted to its more diverse population.

The Customs and Border Protection agency says it is doing its best to reduce impact to the environment and tribal citizens. Conservationists and Native Tribes in the area are not appeased.

President Trump's border wall is going up between Arizona and Mexico, and it's generating controversy because of its proximity to the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and Native Americans lands.

A seven-year delay in the investigation of a controversial shooting by a Border Patrol agent of a Mexican national is emblematic of a larger problem when federal officials investigate these cases.

A seven-year delay in the investigation of a controversial shooting by a Border Patrol agent of a Mexican national is emblematic of a larger problem when federal officials investigate these cases.

The Trump Administration has inked a deal to help El Salvador with the root causes of out-migration to the US.

In border towns such as Nuevo Laredo, more than 30,000 asylum-seekers are waiting for their day in U.S. immigration court. But criminal elements prey on these migrants who fled their homes.

NPR takes a look inside the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas. It is one of the nation's largest immigrant detention centers and it's reserved for families.

More than 30,000 asylum-seekers are waiting in border towns such as Nuevo Laredo, where cartels and gangs wreak havoc. Criminal elements target migrants who fled their Central American homes.

Unauthorized immigrants often do manual, low-paying jobs, and employers say they have no choice but to hire them. But the White House and advocates for lower immigration say the law is the law.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids at chicken processing plants in Mississippi last week raised an old debate: Who will do these jobs if not immigrant workers?

As a consequence of President Trump's remain in Mexico policy, the number of migrants waiting in Mexican border cities is growing. Shelters along the Texas border are reporting a commensurate drop.

Some residents are deeply skeptical of the border wall, fearing it will aggravate flooding problems and cut them off culturally from the Rio Grande river that has defined this landscape.

Plans for a stretch of President Trump's border wall are under way in Starr County, Texas. Trump wants to stop drugs and migrants from crossing, but residents fear the wall will increase flooding.