Border Patrol
The Border Patrol topic provides current news and information about ongoing border protection issues and challenges.
As political rhetoric and fractured coordination reshape enforcement, police chiefs and sheriffs face rising risks to officer safety, legal exposure and institutional trust
From political violence and immigration enforcement to shifting criminal justice policy, 2025 forced local law enforcement to absorb the consequences of national decisions — regardless of ideology
The 5th Circuit upheld a human trafficking conviction after ruling a deputy’s detention and search were supported by reasonable suspicion
Federal appeals court allows Ga. to enforce key part of immigration law
Federal prosecutors say leader diverted funds for personal use
A new market for counterfeit documents has just been born, and the law enforcement officer now must wade through a morass of data in ‘auxiliary documents’
Large, tethered devices called aerostats will take flight to see if they help with border monitoring
In 2011, nearly half the beds in the nation’s civil detention system were in private facilities, up from just 10 percent a decade ago
A report by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service studied the cases of 46,734 illegal immigrants.
Agent had stopped to help a motorist with a flat tire
At the same time, the number of suspects booked by the U.S. Marshals Service for criminal immigration offenses has gone up dramatically
Arrests related to illegal immigrants on the rise in state; enforcement targeting fugitives, repeat offenders
Wichita County Sheriff: ‘Federal government is failing miserably in that by not beefing up security on the border’
A 220-yard tunnel with lighting and ventilation is the second such underground passage discovered in less than a week along the U.S.-Mexico border
New ordinance designed to encourage undocumented to step forward to report crimes when they witness them or are the victims, says Emanuel
Dad, sons in their home along Texas border shot agent out of fear, according to a relative
Over 300 shootings in Mexico directly attributed to weapons from program; weapons seized from cartels match serial numbers
The Mexican Foreign Ministry said late Sunday that a citizen had been killed by a gunshot fired by a US agent at the Los Tomates-Veterans international bridge
AG said he remains ‘seriously concerned’ about the recent Supreme Court decision to let a key provision of Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070 stand
Legislature will vote in August on a law instructing police to release illegal immigrants instead of handing them over to the federal government if they haven’t committed serious crimes
A Texas agent died in an ambulance on the way to a hospital in El Paso
Agents were pelted by rocks and had a gunman point a weapon in their direction
Official: ‘I hope the AG understands that we did not allow guns to walk’
The case is one of the highest-profile corruption cases to sting the Border Patrol during the last decade
In Fast and Furious, ATF agents in Ariz. abandoned the usual practice of intercepting all weapons they believed to be illicitly purchased
The justices on Monday unanimously approved the Arizona law’s most-discussed provision requiring police to check the immigration status of those they stop for other reasons
Critics of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio called for the closure of the sheriff’s complex of canvas jail tents
Justices upheld the most controversial provision involving police checks on immigration status
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer says she wants to make sure officers are prepared if Supreme Court upholds law
A police report shows that officers were responding to a tip about a car loading drugs when they tried to stop a pair near the US-Mexico border
Parents were told there’s no avenue to appeal a US DOJ ruling that the Border Patrol agent followed policy
