The Defense Department says it has designated a second stretch on the U.S. border with Mexico as a military zone to enforce immigration laws.

Troops in the newly designated area in Texas will be able to temporarily detain migrants as the Trump administration militarizes the boundary with Mexico.

The U.S. Department of Justice has begun the first prosecutions of migrants for illegally entering a military zone created along the U.S.-Mexico border as part of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown,

Kinney County, along Texas’ border with Mexico, collected some $1.7 million in bail from migrants who were deported before they could make their court appearances. The money was never returned.

A man said to be an undocumented immigrant spent six hours up in a tree avoiding arrest by ICE, but he eventually surrendered to authorities.

A Guatemalan national who spent eight hours perched in a tree in San Antonio, Texas, to evade federal immigration officers was arrested Tuesday evening. The man, identified by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as 29-year-old Raul Ical,

Immigrants at the Bluebonnet detention center in Texas formed the letters 'SOS' in the center's yard. Chloe Kim. More Videos

Detainees at a Texas immigration detention center sent a clear message for help to the outside world. On Monday (April 28), 31 men formed the phrase "SOS" with their bodies in the dirt yard of the Bluebonnet immigration detention center in Anson,