Border Patrol
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A letter to the law enforcement community from the Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs
Sheriff who has often clashed with the government over immigration enforcement has filed a lawsuit to stop new policies announced by Obama
Move represents a significant departure from a decades-old approach that emphasizes boots on the ground and fences
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers have helped deliver a baby boy after his mother arrived in labor at a Texas port of entry
Tahmooressi has said he took a wrong turn on a California freeway that funneled him into a Tijuana port of entry with no way to turn back
Police in Utah said they took a fingerprint from a man using the name Marcelo Marquez during a misdemeanor hit-and-run arrest in 2003
“Immigration has come up with one identity. We are not entirely convinced that is his only identity”
A man suspected of killing two deputies during a shooting rampage in Northern California was deported twice to Mexico and had a drug conviction
An outspoken member of the American Patriots, a group of armed citizens patrolling the U.S.-Texas border near Brownsville, was arrested Monday
36-year-old man was found unresponsive Friday in a holding cell at a Border Patrol checkpoint between Carlsbad, New Mexico and El Paso, Texas
The scouts use solar panels, encrypted radios and cellphones to warn smugglers when police or agents get close
The U.S. Border Patrol will begin wearing cameras this year at its training academy, a test to see if the technology should be used in the field
A Border Patrol agent involved in a Friday morning car wreck while on duty died from his injuries
Government wasted millions building housing project for agents, spending nearly $700K per house in a town where average home costs less than $90K
About 1K officers fanned out across city’s downtown to search dozens of businesses suspected of taking bulk cash funneled by drug cartels for clothing exported to Mexico
Coordination is challenging among the law enforcement entities alone. Armed civilian militias further complicate the effort
The man dropped his gun and identified himself as a militia member and was not arrested
U.S. immigration authorities must revamp their practices to ensure Mexicans accused of living in the country illegally are properly informed of their right to a hearing before an immigration judge
Presence of armed militia members working on their own has added one more variable to an already complex situation
Gov. Rick Perry said Wednesday that sending troops to the border will defend not just his home state but the entire nation from “narco-terrorists”
U.S. authorities on Wednesday filed smuggling charges against the driver of a car carrying two Mexican men found dead inside the trunk
Slaying is at the center of a scandal over a botched U.S. gun-smuggling probe known as Operation Fast and Furious
The Guard troops will be armed for self-defense and trained to avoid confrontation with border crossers as they help back up federal border agents
A suspect in the 2010 killing of agent Brian Terry, the slaying at the center of the scandal over the botched gun-smuggling probe known as Operation Fast and Furious, was extradited to the U.S. Thursday
Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez, 16, was in Nogales, Sonora, near the tall, steel fence that divides the United States and Mexico when a Border Patrol agent shot him from Nogales, Arizona in 2012
An unusual amount of rain knocked down 60 feet of the rebar-reinforced steel fence that divides the U.S. and Mexico
Gov. Jerry Brown took a dig at Texas’ decision to deploy National Guard troops to the border, saying that “wiser minds will prevail”
Since mid-June, Texas already has been paying an additional $1.3M per week to put more troopers and game wardens in South Texas
Sheriff Chuck Jenkins said a “full deployment of military resources” to the U.S.-Mexico border is needed to address the illegal-immigration issues he witnessed
Sheriffs said they have not been consulted and question the wisdom of sending military personnel who are not authorized to stop, question or arrest anyone
A Texas hospital and its emergency room physicians have reached a $1.1M settlement with a New Mexico woman who sued them and U.S. customs officials
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