This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. U.S. Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks announced his resignation Thursday after 37 years of service, ending his ...

The head of U.S. Border Patrol, the agency tasked with securing the nation's frontiers and increasingly tapped by the Trump administration for immigration operations in American cities, announced his ...

I visited the city of Mardin, where Turkish, Syrian, and Kurdish people live together. What I found was a culture of pluralism under siege. A café in Mardin. My childhood summers in Turkey were marked ...

FILE - Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks speaks to reporters during the visit to the US-Mexico border by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in Sunland Park, N.M., Feb. 3, 2025. The head of U.S. Border ...