Eight immigrants who allegedly threw rocks at Border Patrol agents have been killed since 2010 when the agents fired at them. In response to outcry from the ACLU and immigrant advocacy groups, the government is fitting patrol vehicles and agents’ uniforms with cameras.

The Border Patrol has admitted no wrongdoing in the case, but in a settlement with the ACLU and the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, the agency agreed to release to the two groups copies of the traffic stop reports made by its agents.

Pelosi’s plan would drop the “border surge” amendment, which set aside $46 billion toward Border Patrol agents, fencing and surveillance technologies along the US-Mexico border. In its place, it would pick up a piece of House legislation which offers a simpler set of criteria for Homeland Security to establish along the border.

As a Mexico battered by three successive tropical storms tries to pick up the pieces, Biden arrived in its capital on Friday to meet with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. The vice president called for better infrastructure at the border to enhance trade ties and told his hosts that there was “no relationship that we value more”.

The Senate’s immigration bill calls for another 20,000 agents to be hired by the Border Patrol. But in a USA Today report published on Thursday, border sheriffs whose jurisdictions spanned the majority of the US-Mexico border said they thought the “border surge” missed the point.

“Credible fear” asylum claims from Indians nationwide have soared in the past four years – from 80 in fiscal year 2009 to 1,935 as of late June. An investigation by the newspaper the Arizona Republic suggests that some Indians who file for asylum at the border with Mexico by saying they face political persecution back home might simply be angling to gain entry to the United States. The report echoes conservatives’ fears that the credible fear claim is little more than a “loophole” in immigration law.

A man from Mexico was found trying to sneak into the U.S in a truck load of chili peppers.

Ministers, business leaders and mayors on the US side of the Mexican border are becoming increasingly vocal in their opposition to putting more fences and agents along the border, and point instead to what they see as unexplored potential to improve international commerce across it.

Diana Evelyn Mata Monreal, the director of Mexico’s Social Assistance and Humanitarian Aid Foundation (ASAHAC), told Notimex that both the US Border Patrol and citizen border patrol groups were using dogs more often to track down migrants.

Joe Arpaio told members of the Arizona civilian militia, the Minutemen, on Tuesday that if they continue carrying out border patrols in areas of the desert where his deputies also patrol, they could end up accidentally shot and killed. "If they continue this there could be some dead militia out there," Arpaio told the Associated Press.

LaMadrid, 19, was shot in the back in March 2011 by Border Patrol agents as he fled from them near Douglas, Arizona. The Justice Department says it won’t charge the agent, citing lack of evidence, but the young man’s mother says she will continue to seek justice for her son’s death.

Despite drug violence that has overwhelmed numerous states in Mexico, especially in those near the border with the United States, Mexicans seeking asylum based on a claim of fear of persecution back home are unlikely to be awarded it. Even as asylum requests along the US-Mexico border have more than doubled, the Department of Homeland Security says there hasn’t been a marked increase in applications from Mexican citizens.

Arpaio says he’ll begin sending his deputies out into the Maricopa County, Arizona desert to plant crosses in spots where the bodies of border-crossers have been found.

Surveys of Mexican immigrants show that those who cross the border illegally don’t take fear of punishment by authorities into account when they make their decision.

The Arizona senator says the "border surge" amendment in the Senate bill could be amended in a House compromise, but the path to citizenship is not negotiable.

Pop star Justin Bieber's tour caught with marijuana at Canadian border.

The number of unaccompanied minors has shot up since 2008. Over 13,000 of them were Mexicans, according to a report by Mexico's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Data from the Pew Center suggests that much of the remaining number were Central Americans.

The first flights of the Interior Repatriation Initiative took off from El Paso, Texas on Thursday, in what marks the commencement of a now-permanent program. Previously, deportees were dropped off by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Tijuana and other cities along the border, where they were frequent targets for organized crime.

The Congressional Budget Office says provisions called for by Senate bill's last amendment would help cut down on illegal entries as well as visa overstays, cutting the number of undocumented entering the country from 33 to 50 percent.

"The real solution is a healthy Mexican economy and a Mexico which is free of cartel violence," wrote Vela in a Twitlonger post explaining his decision. "The US-Mexico border should not remind us of places like East Berlin, West Berlin, North Korea and South Korea."

The Latin Times surveyed three opponents of the "border surge" -- an amendment to the immigration bill calling for increased militarization of the US-Mexico border -- on why they oppose it and what border security ought to mean.

The Border Patrol said it would bring in more members of a special rescue unit. Agents in the Tucson sector rescued more than 170 people from the desert during a 30-day stretch in May and June when temperatures were even lower than expected over this weekend.

Mexican politicians, intellectuals and media figures have expressed their opposition to the "border surge" and its call for increased militarization of the US-Mexico border. In El Pais, four prominent intellectuals agreed that it constituted an "affront" to Mexico.

An amusement park in Mexico is using unconventional tactics to keep citizens from illegally immigration -- such as staging fake border crossings.

Mexico's foreign relations secretary criticized the $30 billion "border surge" called for by the last amendment to the immigration reform bill and suggested the United States modernize bridge infrastructure along the border instead. The American Society of Civil Engineers gave the United States' bridges a C+ rating for 2013.

The US Senate voted 67-27 to end debate on the "border surge" amendment. The bill will come to a final vote in the Senate this week.

The Senate will vote today to proceed to debate on the Corker-Hoeven amendment, which provides for an extra 700 miles of fencing along the border, over 20,000 more Border Patrol agents, and $3.2 billion in funding for surveillance and detection technology.

The "border surge" amendment which will increase surveillance and create a "virtual human fence" of law enforcement along the US-Mexico border may also lead to a surge in migrant deaths, experts say.

The brothers were found guilty in 2012 for smuggling migrants across the US-Mexico border using Border Patrol vehicles. A San Diego judge will decide their sentence today.

An amendment to the immigration reform bill worked out by a bipartisan group of Senators will allocate more funds to VADER, a drone-mounted sensor initially developed for use in the Afghanistan war.