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Instead of sending the National Guard to secure the U.S.-Mexico border, White House spokesman Josh Earnest says the House should pass the Senate's comprehensive immigration reform bill, which would add 20,000 Border Batrol agents.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, says Obama's inaction -- not the GOP's resistance to immigration reform-- is responsible for the flood of unaccompanied minors at the southern border.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., downplays disagreements in her caucus over how to deal with the flood of unaccompanied children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The recent flood of immigrants could have lasting political implications. CBS News political director John Dickerson talks about the issue with the "CBS This Morning" co-hosts.
After waiting more than a year for the House to take up an immigration overhaul passed by the Senate, President Obama is moving ahead with a series of executive-level actions he says will improve the system in the absence of any legislation from Congress.
The Obama administration will ask Congress for money to help deal with the growing immigrant crisis along the border with Mexico. Along with the new funding, the White House also wants authorities to fast-track deportations and enforce tougher penalties against human traffickers. Charlie Rose reports.
"CBS This Morning" takes a look at some of the headlines from around the globe.
With perceived promises of safety and amnesty in the U.S., the flood of immigrants from south and central America has increased greatly in the last year. A large number of those attempting the long trek to freedom are children. As Manuel Bojorquez found out, the route north is littered with danger.
Reporters were finally allowed into a border patrol facility that has been inundated with migrant children who've crossed the U.S.-Mexico border. They will remain in custody until they are reunited with a parent or scheduled for an immigration hearing. Vicente Arenas reports.
Since last June, 47,000 children have crossed the border into the U.S. Vicente Arenas reports on two young girls who crossed the Rio Grande to be reunited with their mother.
Homeland Security claims nearly 90,000 illegal immigrant children will be picked up crossing the border into the U.S. this year. Vicente Arenas spoke to three boys who made the journey from Honduras to escape gangs and violence and are now waiting for a deportation hearing to be scheduled.
The Border Patrol says there has been a 92 percent increase in unaccompanied children crossing the border into the U.S. since last summer. Texas has so many of these kids that it began sending them to Arizona last month. Anna Werner reports.
Lapel camera video shows what happened during the DWI arrest of a law student in Albuquerque, N.M., who says a police officer roughed him up so badly, doctors had to remove one of his testicles.
A 12,000-year-old skeleton of a teenage girl has been found inside a huge underground chamber north of the city of Tulum, in the eastern part of the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. Research done on her skeleton and DNA just released by the journal Science bolsters the theory that pioneers arrived from Asia by way of a land bridge that has long since disappeared.
The Biden administration is facing a surge of migrants entering the country, some illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. Mireya Villarreal reports from the border town of McAllen, Texas.
The 87-year-old Nobel Prize-winning author died at his home in Mexico City after a long battle with cancer. Best known for novels such as “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and “Love in The Time of Cholera,” Garcia Marquez's works have outsold everything ever published in Spanish except for the Bible. Charles Osgood reports.
It's been four years since the Deepwater Horizon disaster that killed 11 people and unleashed oil into the Gulf of Mexico for 87 days. Scientists dove to the Gulf floor for the first time since 2010 to determine how marine life is recovering. Chip Reid reports.
Drones have helped archaeologists uncover a 1000-year-old village in New Mexico. Researchers can now see what lies beneath a landscape covered in dirt and vegetation, giving unique insight into what it was like. KRQE-TV's Gabrrielle Burkhart reports.
The U.S. Navy and National Guard are on a mission to rescue a 1-year-old child sickened with salmonella more than a thousand miles off Mexico's pacific coast. How the baby and her parents came to be there in the first place is raising questions. Marlee Hall reports.
The California Air National Guard stabilized a 1-year-old baby named Lyra when she became seriously ill aboard her family's sailboat more than a thousand miles off the coast of Mexico. Betty Yu of KPIX-TV reports.
Hundreds of thousands of sandhill cranes take part in one of the world's great natural migrations. They settle on Nebraska's Platte river and fatten up in nearby cornfields during their 7,000-mile trip that starts in Mexico and ends as far north as Siberia. Dean Reynolds reports.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas refrained from calling the surge of migrants at the U.S. border a "crisis" during a hearing yesterday and defended the Biden administration's efforts to process cases. CBS News correspondent Mireya Villarreal joins CBSN AM with more from the border.
A poor harvest and unstable conditions in Mexico have led to a steep rise in the price of the limes for American customers. In some places, like San Jose, Calif., bar and restaurant owners are shelling out nearly four times what they were paying a month ago. KPIX-TV's Betty Yu reports.
A major cleanup is underway in Texas after a collision released more than 160,000 barrels of oil into Galveston Bay. Some of the oil has spread as far as 12 miles into the Gulf of Mexico, and seabirds covered in the sticky oil have been spotted along the bay. Manuel Bojorquez reports.
Mexico is considering reducing the area of protection for the world's most endangered marine mammal, the vaquita marina porpoise. Associated Press Mexico City bureau reporter Mark Stevenson joins CBSN's Tanya Rivero to discuss how a Chinese delicacy is contributing to the species' decline and why the Mexican government may go forward with the change.
Trump says Hamas will likely release all Israeli hostages by early next week, as the "first phase" of a deal to end the war in Gaza is expected to take effect soon.
The government shutdown stretched into Day 9 on Thursday with another round of failed votes in the Senate. Follow live updates here.
Photos of Jeffrey Epstein's cell show a scene of disarray that never underwent a proper inspection, according to experts.
President Trump's annual physical examination in April showed his vital statistics were all within normal limits.
Alex Jones, host of the show InfoWars, was ordered to pay nearly $1.5 billion to the families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
A judge is set to rule on a lawsuit filed by Illinois and Chicago seeking to prevent the National Guard from being deployed by the federal government over their objections.
The acquisition brings together two major players providing key infrastructure for voting and voter verification systems across dozens of states ahead of the 2026 midterms.
One week before a scheduled execution, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stepped in.
Tropical Storm Priscilla has been losing punch but could still bring flash flooding to the southwestern U.S. in coming days, forecasters say.