“We’ve basically done everything we can do at this point,” McDonnell said, citing US Customs and ... San Ysidro and entering Mexico through the border crossing tunnel in Baja California.
How is the border defended now? Through a combination of fences and patrols. The Department of Homeland Security has fenced off 651 miles of the 1,969-mile border between the U.S. and Mexico.
About 1,500 migrants — mostly from Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti, Colombia, Guatemala and Honduras — set out walking on Sunday from Tapachula, a city near Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala.
A boy walks near where a border wall separating the United States from Mexico reaches the Pacific Ocean, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024, in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) SAN DIEGO (AP ...