Immigration

The program allows recruits to naturalize at the end of basic training. Several military branches have revived it at a time when the military is having trouble attracting recruits.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott continues to ramp up his controversial border security initiative. The state has sent troopers and National Guard members to the U.S./Mexico border to arrest migrants.

Hundreds of U.S. military veterans have been deported for committing crimes, sometimes decades after they left the service. Now, many are hoping the Biden Administration lets them return to the United States.

The MAVNI program allowed non-U.S. citizens to enlist in the armed services if they had foreign language skills or other special expertise. But the…

A thousand National Guard troops from Texas will try to address one of the unintended results of President Trump’s immigration crackdown -- traffic jams…

President Trump is considering sending a new round of troops to the southern border. The military withdrew some service members from the border in…

More than 5000 troops have been deployed to the border, mainly to build barriers to harden points of entry. Most troops are scheduled to leave the border…

Active-duty troops are now at the U.S. border with Mexico, two weeks after President Trump ordered the deployment in response to a large group of migrants…

From 2009 to 2016, the Defense Department recruited more than 10,000 non-citizens into the armed forces. Now some say they're being discharged without…

Hundreds of troops have arrived to assist Border Patrol agents. But National Guard operations are not yet fully underway.Maria Reyes lives in Mercedes,…