Federal agents discovered an underground tunnel crossing the border into Mexico from Naco, Arizona on Tuesday as part of an investigation after a traffic stop that yielded over two tons of marijuana, with a value of approximately $3 million.
U.S. Border Patrol agents are expressing frustration that a multi-million dollar park project in San Diego’s Tijuana River Valley region, including a butterfly garden, will make it harder for them to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border in that area.
Just before sunrise Friday morning two Mexican nationals were arrested on the sandy beaches of Coronado Silver Strand State Beach after jetting through ocean waters and making illegal entry into the United States.
MCALLEN, Texas — Federal agents arrested near the Texas border a Mexican murder suspect illegal alien. The man is wanted for murder in Houston. Agents with the U.S. Border Patrol working near the rural community of Encino encountered a group
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) sees people from around the world attempting to cross into the U.S. illegally–and San Diego is no exception. Apprehensions of illegal aliens from countries other than Mexico surged last October, including foreign nationals from Ebola-affected countries, according to a source within CBP that spoke on condition of anonymity. One of those caught at the time sported a shirt that bore the name “Obama,” as shown in the above photo.
Breitbart Texas witnessed the capture of two young women from El Salvador who had just entered the United States illegally. Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers observed the two females emerging from the brush along the bank of the Rio Grande River in Anzalduas Park. Their capture prevented the two from the likelihood of being forced into the sexual slavery that many young women from this region have faced.
A bipartisan delegation of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) was at Anzalduras Park on the Rio Grande border on Saturday. Breitbart Texas was there when Chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI), ranking member Tom Carper (D-DE), and committee member Ben Sasse (R-NE), finished their Rio Grande tour of the war-torn region near Reynosa and Matamoros.
Border patrol agents with National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) Local 1613 are publicly voicing concern over new policies the representatives say pose a threat to national security.
Convicted child sex offender, drug trafficker and prior deportee Eloy Chavez-Loviano was arrested near Calexico, California on Monday when Border Patrol agents caught Chavez attempting to cross back into the United States from Mexico.
As House Republicans prepare to take a vote on what Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) calls the “strongest border security bill” to ever appear before Congress, a union of Border Patrol agents argue it is not tough enough. The House is slated to vote on the “Secure our Borders First Act” this week and the effort’s leaders have billed it as part of a step-by-step approach to dealing with the nation’s immigration problems.
U.S. Border Patrol agents tracked five suspected illegal alien smugglers seen carrying large packages on their backs while crossing the International Boundary from Mexico into the United States near Calexico, California on Tuesday night.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) helicopter fired warning shots Saturday night at suspected drug smugglers operating a panga boat off the coast of La Jolla, California, forcing the boat to stop and surrender to authorities.
Customs and Border Protection’s recruitment effort to bring more female Border Patrol agents into its ranks have yielded over 5,500 applications from women, according CBP Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske.
National Border Patrol Council Vice President Shawn Moran blasted Mexico for its “double standard” on border enforcement and argued that Mexico’s southern border is “probably a little more intimidating than our border is” on Tuesday’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto”
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MCALLEN, Texas — A person claiming to be a cartel member called 911 in the border city of La Joya, Texas stating that they had kidnapped a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
Federal agents seized two bottles with more than 8 pounds of liquid methamphetamine hidden inside liquor bottles. The drugs were seized from two men trying to get to Oklahoma from the border city of Laredo, Texas.
Investigators are looking in to a fatal Christmas Eve series of events that led to the death of a dangerous and combative male U.S. citizen attempting to enter the United States from Mexico near San Diego, California. The man first attempted
Illegal aliens from El Salvador and Mexico have been using fraudulent passports in an attempt to cross the U.S. southern border, four of which were caught in their attempts over the weekend.
A disabled man from California has been sent to prison for using his wheelchair and special van to smuggle weapons and ammunition for the infamous Knights Templar cartel. A U.S. District judge in San Diego sentenced 53-year-old Sergio Garcia Rico
MCALLEN, Texas — A human smuggler from Mexico is facing up to 20-years in prison after a federal grand jury indicted him on a conspiracy to transport illegal aliens and eight counts of transporting illegal aliens for a fateful attempt
AUSTIN, Texas — U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended eight previously convicted criminal illegal aliens who had secretly crossed the porous U.S.-Mexico border in recent days. The aliens all had previous convictions for serious crimes, including sexual offenses and violent crimes, or had
Twenty-eight dangerous gang members have been apprehended in the El Centro sector of the U.S.-Mexico border this year, with the most recent an aggravated felon member of the “Sureños 13” criminal street gang arrested Thursday morning. Jose Carmona-Escobar, a 43-year-old
FALFURRIAS, Texas–A previously deported felon from El Salvador was captured near a Wal-Mart store south of the city of Falfurrias. His travel partner managed to escape the search team which included a U.S. Border Patrol helicopter. Breitbart Texas witnessed a
