Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. The United States has been fortifying its southern border against the “caravan” of migrants from Central American nations ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The tangled miles of razor wire strewn along the banks of the Rio Grande are being manufactured by inmates in a minimum-security prison unit in East Texas using equipment purchased ...

The towering metal fence that divides the United States and Mexico at the edge of the Pacific Ocean has an imposing new feature: rows of razor wire. The wire -- you've seen it images from battlefields ...

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Jan. 22, 2024, allowed U.S. Border Patrol agents to cut or move concertina wire, commonly called razor wire, set up by the state of Texas along the Mexican border. The ...

The towering metal fence that divides the United States and Mexico at the edge of the Pacific Ocean has an imposing new feature: row upon row of razor wire. The wire that's typically used in ...

EAGLE PASS, Texas — They waded across the Rio Grande holding hands to form a human chain as frustrated Texas National Guard members shouted warnings in Spanish from behind stacked-up coils of razor ...

The cruel embrace of the spikes offered 19th century settlers the solution they’d been looking for to stake their claims out west: a fence that kept cattle in, and undesirables out. Unsuspecting wild ...

Video has been posted on social media showing a suspected illegal migrant climbing over a wall made out of shipping containers and razor wire on the Texas-Mexico border to arrive in the U.S. before ...

The Justice Department announced Wednesday it would be assessing the legality of Texas’ razor wire border fence after the Mexican president called it “inhumane.” As part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s ...

In this Nov. 16, 2018 file photo, concertina wire lines the top of a wall at the San Ysidro port of entry in San Diego. (Gregory Bull/AP) The towering metal fence that divides the United States and ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — An accused killer scaled two barbed and razor-wire fences to briefly break out of the Kalamazoo County Jail on Wednesday. Donnovan Lewis accused of killing Aniya Mack and was on the ...