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Two former Calexico officials, including an ex-councilman, were sentenced in San Diego Wednesday to federal prison for trying to bribe an undercover FBI agent in exchange for a marijuana dispensary permit, according to federal prosecutors.

Two former Calexico officials, including an ex-councilman, have pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges

Two Calexico city officials were charged with accepting cash bribes in exchange for the quick issuance of a cannabis dispensary permit, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of California announced.

Part of the wall that was ordered to be constructed by President Donald Trump partially collapsed on Wednesday —due to the strong winds that whipped through the U.S.-Mexico border between Calexico, California and Mexicali, Mexico. The metal would have blocked Colón Avenue in Mexicali, but a group of trees held 50-feet of netting, according to witnesses. Officials in Mexicali...

In a mission to “improve the aesthetic appearance” of President Donald Trump’s wall, active-duty troops will begin painting a stretch of border fence as part of a military deployment to secure the border at a time when tens of thousands of Central American families have been arriving in the U.S. and overwhelming the immigration system.

For thousands of asylum seekers, there are many ways to wait — and wait, and wait — at the threshold of the United States. Parents and children sleep in tents next to bridges leading to Texas for weeks on end, desperately hoping their names and numbers are called so they can be let in. Some immigrants complain of shakedowns and...

President Donald Trump told acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan last week to close the U.S. southern border and that he would pardon him if he faced any legal challenges, according to The New York Times. The paper, citing three people briefed about the conversation, reported that they spoke when Trump visited the border town of Calexico, Calif., last week...

Tensions are rising, fingers are pointing and the search for solutions is becoming increasingly fraught. Overwhelmed by an influx of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border that is taxing the immigration system, President Donald Trump is grasping for something — anything — to stem the tide. Trump, who campaigned on a promise to secure the border, has thrown virtually every option...

President Donald Trump is expected to address immigration Friday as he visits the U.S.-Mexico border in Calexico, California to tour a section of recently replaced border fence.

The first scheduled hearings under a new Trump administration policy to make asylum seekers wait in Mexico while their cases wind through U.S. immigration courts will be held Tuesday in San Diego.

Juan Carlos Perla says he spent his first night in the U.S. in a cold immigration cell with 21 others at the nation’s busiest border crossing. Fluorescent lights were always on in the basement holding area. Space was so tight that he laid his sleeping mat next to a toilet. The 36-year-old from El Salvador soon reunited with his wife...

Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen spoke Friday in Calexico, California along the repaired fence near the El Centro Port of Entry.

Footage shot on the ground and by drone caught the full extent of the damage done to Mexico Beach, Florida, by Hurricane Michael.

This week’s Set List of the best upcoming shows goes big with Calexico, the Kooks, Minus the Bear and more!

Construction of a new barrier wall along the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego began Friday, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) San Diego Sector said.

An Acapulco man who operated a 415-yard drug tunnel that ran from a house in Calexico, CA, to Mexicali, Baja, Mexico, was sentenced in a San Diego courtroom to 10 years in prison Monday.

President Donald Trump hailed the start of his long-sought U.S.-Mexico border wall this past week, proudly tweeting photos of the “WALL!” Actually, no new work got underway. The photos showed the continuation of an old project to replace 2 miles of existing barrier. And on Saturday, he ripped Amazon with a shaky claim that its contract with the post office...

A tiny Nebraska startup awarded the first border wall construction project under President Donald Trump is the offshoot of a construction firm that was sued repeatedly for failing to pay subcontractors and accused in a 2016 government audit of shady billing practices. SWF Constructors, which lists just one employee in its Omaha office, won the $11 million federal contract in...

A barrier built in the 1990s from recycled metal scraps and landing mat will be torn down for bollard-style barriers that are 30 feet high, significantly taller than existing walls.