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The former president has tried to stoke fear around immigration and border security throughout his 2024 campaign, as he has done in the past.

The law, which empowers local officials to arrest and deport migrants who enter the country without authorization, was challenged by the Biden administration as an affront to federal power.

The goal of the program is to keep people from skipping out on their asylum hearings, joining the millions of undocumented people who stay in the country indefinitely.

It’s not clear whether Mr. Musk will spend any of his billions on the former president’s behalf. If he does, he could erase Mr. Trump’s financial disadvantage in the 2024 race.

The 2,000-mile frontier has become a symbol in American politics as the debate over immigration grows increasingly polarized.

The president has come to recognize that the surge of undocumented immigration is a threat to his re-election.

In a redo of their first failed attempt, Republicans pushed through the charges over solid Democratic opposition, making the homeland security secretary the first sitting cabinet member to be impeached.

The defeat of the immigration-Ukraine-Israel package marks the end of the party of Eisenhower, Reagan and McCain.

A conservative convoy gathered on the Texas border to support the state’s defiant stance on immigration. Despite worries over potential violence, the event was peaceful.

Republicans have scuttled efforts to rewrite immigration laws repeatedly over the past two decades, despite powerful bipartisan coalitions behind the efforts.

Seeking asylum has become the surest way for migrants to stay in the U.S. The underfunded immigration system can’t keep up, so cases languish for years.

The minority leader privately told Republicans that the former president had put his party “in a quandary,” casting further doubt on the deal’s chances and the fate of Ukraine aid that the G.O.P. has tied to it.

House Republicans are racing to charge the homeland security secretary without his in-person testimony or evidence of impeachable offenses.

According to Customs and Border Protection, federal agents were “physically barred” by state officials from responding to the situation. Texas officials said that was “wholly inaccurate.”

Immigrants are the majority of New York City’s 65-and-over population. Many have no nest egg, and some are coping with social isolation.

A Facebook page chronicles the deaths of dozens of bike-riding workers who delivered food in New York City, lionizing them as fallen heroes.