Border Patrol
The Border Patrol topic provides current news and information about ongoing border protection issues and challenges.
When you’re a ‘loaner’ you can be on urban streets surrounded by millions on one day and the next day be deep in a canyon outnumbered 10-to-1 by rattlesnakes
The same economic law of supply and demand that fuels drug smuggling into the US fuels gun smuggling into Mexico
Due to the sheer number of arrests made every year by the Border Patrol, Immigration Courts are just as bogged down in procedure, legal wrangling, and politics as any other criminal court
How will Trump’s promise of unconditional support for law enforcement translate into policy changes?
U.S. officials say Mexico’s failure to fully seal up border tunnels poses a security risk and is an “open invitation” for Mexican cartels to dig new tunnels
If the bill passes, Colorado would be the first sanctuary state in the U.S.
In a letter released Monday, the officers asked Obama to send 100 Border Patrol agents and members of the U.S. Marshals Service Special Operations Group
The bill wants to bar police from sharing information with federal deportation agents about immigrants being released from custody
The university will also continue admitting qualified students regardless of their immigration status
Agent David Gomez was on bike patrol at the time he fell ill
The Denver Sheriff Department will pay $10K and change its hiring practices after the DOJ found it broke the law by excluding job candidates who were not U.S. citizens
There’s a standoff brewing between some city police chiefs and President-elect Donald Trump – here’s a breakdown of what it all means
Mayors of major U.S. cities that have long had cool relationships with federal immigration officials say they’ll do all they can to protect residents from deportation
Chief Charlie Beck said he has no plans to change the LAPD’s stance on immigration enforcement, despite Trump’s pledge to toughen federal immigration laws
Mostly, the demonstrations were peaceful
While the sheriff never changed, the landscape around him slowly did
The longtime sheriff of metropolitan Phoenix has been charged with criminal contempt-of-court for ignoring a judge’s order in a racial-profiling case
No officers were injured
The report does not identify any of the immigrants by name, but the audit found they were all from “special interest countries” — those that present a national security concern for the U.S.
Manuel Alvarez was involved in a motorcycle crash Thursday
The sheriff of metropolitan Phoenix has raised close to $10 million in his bid for a seventh term, a stunning collection of campaign riches for a local police race
The findings were released Thursday by the agency’s National Use of Force Review Board
Lawsuit says the government should have known the methods used in “Fast and Furious” would have created a risk to LEOs
Michael Steven Sandford was charged with an act of violence on restricted grounds and was assigned a court-appointed attorney
Told an inmate to dress as a fellow deputy and help him transport U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees
Mark Morgan, who briefly led the internal affairs department at the Border Patrol’s parent agency, will oversee the agency
In training, ambushes are detected early by the flankers when utilizing the “Y” formation
Officer Brian Beliso was part of a wide-scale operation targeting undocumented criminal fugitives
The man assaulted the agent after illegally crossing the frontier near Yuma, Arizona
The man raised his knife and moved toward the inspector, who was backing away when the shots rang
The numbers come amid intense scrutiny from critics who say agents have been too quick to draw guns and other weapons
Evidence and witness statements showed the agent was ‘justified by the laws of self-defense’
