The deal expands a controversial program requiring some migrants seeking asylum in the United States to wait in Mexico for their immigration hearings. Texas officials worried about the economic impact of tariffs cheered the agreement Friday.

In some Texas Border Patrol sectors, apprehensions of families has spiked 1,000 to 2,000% since October.

Mexico is the biggest trade partner for Texas and the U.S., and tariffs on Mexican imports would quickly be felt on the border before impacting the rest of the U.S. economy, trade experts say.

City leaders issued a cease-and-desist letter after they said proper permits were not issued before the project began. But on Thursday the mayor said the project has been given permission to continue.

A Sunland Park, New Mexico spokesperson said We Build the Wall's permit application was incomplete when it was submitted and that site inspectors tried to visit the property, but were turned away.

The construction over the weekend started after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to build his long-promised wall with funds not appropriated by Congress.

The Guatemalan teenager, who hasn’t been identified, was found unresponsive Monday morning at the Border Patrol station in Weslaco.

The agency said Friday that the Rio Grande Valley sector is holding an average of 8,000 migrants each day.

While U.S. officials sound the alarm over a surge of migrants crossing the border, Mexican shelter operators and immigration officials are trying to find space for people from nearly every continent who must wait in Mexico as they try to claim asylum in the U.S.

Tuesday’s decision means the program will continue and that hundreds —  if not thousands more asylum seekers — will be sent back across the U.S.-Mexico border pending further hearings.

The state stands to lose more than $32 billion in gross domestic product in just over three months as the federal government shifts personnel away from international bridges to deal with a surge of migrants, according to a newly-released study.

The facilities, in El Paso and the Rio Grande Valley city of Donna, are designed to house up to 500 asylum seekers each. But the Border Patrol is still apprehending thousands of migrants a week.

The 16-year-old’s death after being held in a Southwest Key facility in Brownsville is being investigated by the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement.

Some asylum seekers sent to Mexico under the Trump administration's Migration Protection Protocols told a U.S. judge Thursday that they fear remaining in Mexico as their asylum claims are pending.

It’s not my job to tell people what they should think about the border; their own perspectives, politics and histories should shape their perceptions. But it is my job to tell people what’s happening here, and I’m lucky to have the added context of actually being from here.