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SFGate
March 26, 2018
When Border Patrol agents stop people who are trying to enter the United States without legal documents, they're supposed to find out whether the person is ... says U.S. Customs and Immigration Services has provided only a small fraction of the documents in holds from 2012 onward on the Border Patrol'sÃâà...
NMPolitics.net
March 26, 2018
Before Mexico, before the United States, before the Tohono O'odham were a federally recognized tribe, and long before the era of modern border security, the .... Like many in his generation, he appreciates the security that the U.S. Border Patrol and the fence offers, but he is upset by the increasingly clearÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 26, 2018
Denying people in the United States the opportunity to seek asylum here is illegal under US and international law.” ... the reliability of the records they create, including: flawed Border Patrol internal guidance that conflates CBP's role with that of USCIS; certain CBP officers' outright skepticism, if not hostility,Ãâà...
Las Cruces Sun-News
March 26, 2018
LORDSBURG - An immigrant with temporary protective status may lose that protection after the U.S. Border Patrol says he tried smuggling immigrants into the country near Rodeo, New Mexico. The U.S. Border Patrol said the man was arrested March 19 after agents found three immigrants suspected ofÃâà...
Law.com
March 26, 2018
After the shooting, border patrol said Hernandez had been apprehended for, but never charged with, smuggling aliens across the border into the U.S., the court ... “This case simply involves a federal official engaged in his law enforcement duties acting on United States soil who shot and killed an unarmedÃâà...
History
March 23, 2018
The short-lived operation used military-style tactics to remove Mexican immigrants—some of them American citizens—from the United States. .... U.S. Border Patrol officer Richard McCown shows how he found Felipe Ramirez Perez, a 6-foot illegal Mexican immigrant, curled up on the engine beneath theÃâà...
Arizona Daily Star
March 23, 2018
A 16-year-old Mexican, Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez, was shot and killed at this site in Nogales, Sonora, in 2012. U.S. Border Patrol agent Lonnie Swartz is on trial for second-degree murder in a rare Justice Department prosecution of a fatal cross-border Mexico shooting. Lonnie Swartz is charged withÃâà...
KCENTV.com
March 23, 2018
Border Patrol agents seized nearly $1 million dollars worth of methamphetamine hidden inside containers of canned cheese at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Inspection Station Check Point in Sarita, Texas, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Officials said in the early hours ofÃâà...
KRIS Corpus Christi News
March 23, 2018
Nearly a million dollars in methamphetamine has been found in transit to the U.S. at a Border Patrol checkpoint, officials reported. In a press release, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) detailed an incident at a roadside checkpoint near Brownsville, Texas. The discovery was reportedly made in theÃâà...
Arizona Public Media
March 23, 2018
And I think it was a really good investment to bring these individuals here to help us bring quality people to our sector." Border patrol hiring unsized A Border Patrol recruiter speaks with a potential applicant during a job fair at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, March 8, 2018. (PHOTO: MichelÃâà...
AZCentral.com
March 22, 2018
On Oct. 10, 2017, Araceli Rodriguez, the mother of Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez, and others came on the fifth anniversary of the teen's death and prayed at the site in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, where Border Patrol agent Lonnie Swartz shot and killed the 16-year-old through the border fence.
New York Times
March 22, 2018
“The U.S. Border Patrol has been very clear that a border wall is essential to gaining operational control of the Southwest border,” said Benjamine Huffman, the ... where he outlined plans to fight opioid abuse, the president again said that building a wall would block drugs from entering the United States.
KHQ Right Now
March 21, 2018
These operations serve as a vital component of the U.S. Border Patrol's national security efforts. Although most Border Patrol work is conducted in the immediate border area, agents have broad law enforcement authorities and are not limited to a specific geography within the United States. They have theÃâà...
WTOP
March 16, 2018
Aubrey Dunn, New Mexico State Land Commissioner, stands near a section of the U.S./ Mexico Border where his office says a section of the border wall has ben constructed on state trust ... Dunn on Tuesday posted signs aimed at blocking border patrol operations along the one-mile stretch of state land.
Nogales International
March 16, 2018
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry referred a 19-year-old Tucson man for further inspection of his ... An 18-year-old Nogales woman traveling on a shuttle van was busted at the Border Patrol's Interstate 19 checkpoint with approximately 1.5 pounds ofÃâà...
WJXT News4JAX
March 16, 2018
“The Border Patrol's primary goal in Florida is to stop all threats that attempt to gain entry into the United States where they may target and harm American citizens,” said U.S. Border Patrol Miami Sector Acting Division Chief Peter Daniel. “Dedicated U.S. Border Patrol agents are committed to keeping ourÃâà...
Mexico Ledger
March 15, 2018
Then we walk back to the river and the boatsman returns us to U.S. soil. At a kiosk in the little building, we slip our passports into a computer scanner and are asked to pick up a phone and look into the camera nearby. A Border Patrol agent in El Paso, 300 miles away, asks a few questions about who we areÃâà...
KYMA
March 15, 2018
After interviewing Lopez it was determined that he was illegally in the United States. Agents noted a MS-503 Gang tattoo across his chest and said he had no record of any criminal or immigration arrests in the United States. However, he was processed for immigration violations. Lopez was arrested andÃâà...
Philly.com
March 15, 2018
U.S. Border Patrol agent Jason Bush patrols along a massive steel fence on the Mexican border in Jacumba Hot Springs, Calif. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times/TNS) ... They are being seen as not us.” The immigration agency oversees all lawful immigration into the United States. That includesÃâà...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
March 15, 2018
The high-end watches, if genuine, would sell for between $10,000 and $79,000, authorities estimated. U.S. District Judge Janis Sammartino sentenced Macias to five years probation on March 9. Macias is on indefinite suspension from his job while the incident is being reviewed, a Border Patrol spokesmanÃâà...
Government Accountability Office
March 15, 2018
The U.S. Border Patrol, within the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), has made progress deploying surveillance technology—a mix of radars, sensors, and cameras—along the southwest U.S. border. As of October 2017, the Border Patrol had completedÃâà...
fox5sandiego.com
March 14, 2018
SAN DIEGO -- Border Patrol agents seized nearly 800 pounds of marijuana from an abandoned panga-style fishing boat first spotted in the water near Swami's State Beach. According ... U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations seized the boat whil Border Patrol seized the marijuana.
Christian Science Monitor
March 14, 2018
... Mexico—Luis Contreras, a doctor who lives and works in a building just south of the border fence that separates the United States from Mexico here, was ... It was someone with the US Border Patrol who said, in Spanish, that shots had been fired and rocks hurled along a stretch of the border shared withÃâà...
Fort Worth Star Telegram
March 14, 2018
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents in El Paso on Friday were surprised to find out that the smell coming from the gas tank of a pickup wasn't gas — it was liquid methamphetamine worth almost $4 million in street value. Officers seized 164.5 pounds of liquid meth with an estimated street value ofÃâà...
TIME
March 14, 2018
U.S. Border Patrol agents detain an undocumented immigrant from Central America after capturing his group on February 22, 2018 near McAllen, Texas. ... But for the Trump administration, the decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans is a victory against measures seen as protectingÃâà...
Quartz
March 14, 2018
A man looks through the U.S.-Mexico border fence into the United States on September 25, 2016 in Tijuana, Mexico. (John Moore/Getty Images) ... US Border Patrol agent Sal De Leon stands near a section of the US- Mexico border fence while stopping on patrol on April 10, 2013 in La Joya, Texas.
Gizmodo
March 13, 2018
Today, President Trump heads to the US-Mexico border near San Diego—his first trip to California as president. Trump will examine the eight prototypes for his infamous border wall and meet with agents of US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), an agency that recently released a propaganda videoÃâà...
Brownsville Herald
March 13, 2018
People on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande threw rocks at U.S. Border Patrol agents responding to a drug smuggling attempt last Thursday. In a brief press release, Border Patrol said that last Thursday evening members of the Brownsville Riverine Unit observed people transporting bundles of suspectedÃâà...
CBS DFW
March 13, 2018
COM) – Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents intercepted three narcotic smuggling attempts resulting in the seizure of more than 2,400 pounds of marijuana in and around Laredo, Texas, according to U.S. Customs and ... (U.S. Customs and Border Patrol) ... The driver, a United States citizen, was arrested.
Newsweek
March 12, 2018
The U.S. Border Patrol is defending an arrest that saw a mother dragged away from her three screaming children after video of the incident spread across social media. In the video, Perla Morales-Luna, a single mother, can be seen being wrenched away from her sobbing daughters as she tries to graspÃâà...
Brownsville Herald
March 6, 2018
Authorities found her police credentials in a vehicle about a mile north of where she was arrested and Rivas later told investigators that she had been a police officer for one year and had previously been a dispatcher for the Brownsville Police Department. On Tuesday morning, U.S. Magistrate Judge JasonÃâà...
Las Cruces Sun-News
March 6, 2018
Using a drill, Dunn installed "no trespassing" signs on posts at the edge of state-owned land, abutted by a 15-foot-tall border fence separating the United States from Mexico. And his assistant commissioner roped plastic tape across a dirt road used regularly by Border Patrol agents. Dunn, a U.S. SenateÃâà...
NBC 7 San Diego
March 6, 2018
A driver leading a pursuit with U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers attempted to run after he crashed his vehicle along Interstate 8 in San Diego's East County, injuring four passengers. The pursuit began at approximately 10:45 a.m. on the westbound lanes of I-8 and reached speeds of up to 100Ãâà...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
March 6, 2018
A San Diego federal grand jury has indicted a Border Patrol agent on charges that he lied — twice — about his ties to two Mexican drug traffickers, the U.S. Attorney's Office said Monday. Agent Ramon Delgado is accused of being dishonest about his alleged relationships with the pair of drug traffickers in aÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 6, 2018
While health concerns of agents were a factor, the statement also said that CBP was "spurred by the continued risks the trans-boundary wastewater and hazardous flows pose to its mission as a whole, which includes not only the health and life safety risks to its U.S. Border Patrol Agents, but also its missionÃâà...
KGNS.tv
March 5, 2018
In all four cases, the individuals were in good health and were determined to be from Mexico and living in the U.S. illegally. Assistant Chief Patrol Agent Gabriel H. Acosta says, “These events illustrate how the men and women of the United States Border Patrol not only serve to protect our borders, but areÃâà...
New York Times
February 21, 2018
They call it a vital part of preventing weapons, terrorists and other people from illegally entering the United States. ... “The U.S. Border Patrol conducts transportation checks in accordance with the law,” said Stephanie Malin, a spokeswoman for Customs and Border Protection, which oversees the BorderÃâà...
CBS News
December 31, 1999
NATIONAL CITY, Calif. -- The U.S. Border Patrol said Friday that agents acted appropriately during the videotaped arrest of a woman who was pulled away from her anguished daughters on a street in Southern California. The agency said 36-year-old Perla Morales-Luna recruited drivers to take people whoÃâà...
The Desert Sun
December 31, 1999
In 2009, the Border Patrol identified this improvement project as a priority, he said, long before Trump proposed building a “big, beautiful wall' that is ... A metal barrier separating Mexico and the U.S. is being replaced east of the Calexico point of entry into the United States with a higher metal barrier as partÃâà...
ProPublica
December 31, 1999
Officially, both U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection say they “generally” avoid arrests, interviews or surveillance related to immigration enforcement at “sensitive locations,” which include places of worship, hospitals, schools, weddings, funerals and publicÃâà...
