A federal court in California sentenced two human smugglers to prison following the drowning of a migrant during a maritime incident in May. The smugglers forced migrants unable to swim into the water, leading to one person’s death.
San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents and Mexican officials teamed up to disrupt a transnational smuggling operation. The investigation led to the arrest of smugglers and migrants on both sides of the California-Mexico border. Between October 28 and November 9,
U.S. Coast Guardsmen responded to a notification of an overturned boat about 100 miles off the coast of Southern California. The search led to the rescue of 25 people who had been hanging to the small craft for approximately three days.
San Diego Sector Border Patrol officials announced an alarming trend of “dangerous failure-to-yield” incidents involving human smugglers. Officials say the 475 percent increase in pursuits in October led to crashes causing serious injuries and hospitalizations.
Border Patrol agents working along the southwest U.S. border with Mexico continue to rescue migrants left in distress by human smugglers.
Border Patrol surveillance cameras captured two separate incidents where human smugglers dangerously dropped small children from border walls. The incidents took place in the El Centro and San Diego Sectors.
San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents teamed up with local law enforcement and rescue teams to save the lives of six migrants over the past two weeks. The rescues took place in the dangerous Otay Mountain region near the California border with Mexico.
Human smugglers assaulted a San Diego Sector Border Patrol agent with a board. The attack occurred as the female agent attempted to confiscate a ladder used by the smugglers to move people over the wall.
A San Diego Sector Border Patrol marine unit interdicted a human smuggling vessel off the coast of California and led to the apprehension of 16 migrants.
Border Patrol agents in California rescued four migrants in two incidents in the mountainous regions along the Mexican border.
Yuma and San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents arrested two armed human smugglers in separate incidents. Both incidents took place at interior immigration checkpoints manned by Border Patrol agents. Yuma Sector agents assigned to the Blythe Station observed a BMW
San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents found a five-year-old girl wandering along a dangerous section of the border with Mexico. Human smugglers abandoned the child along the Tijuana River canal.
Two Central American migrants experienced the near-deadly consequences of illegally crossing the border into the California mountains close to San Diego. Both migrants, in separate incidents, faced nearly deadly illness after getting lost in the wilderness areas.
Border Patrol agents in two separate sectors along the southwest border with Mexico recalled the tragic details of rescue attempts where migrants died. Both stories detail the anguish felt by the agents who, despite their own efforts and putting their own lives at risk, were unable to save the lives of these migrants.
Border Patrol agents rescued two migrants who became dangerously dehydrated at opposite ends of the U.S. Mexico border. The rescues took place last week in the Rio Grande Valley and San Diego Sectors after illegal border crossings.
U.S. Border Patrol agents shot and killed a suspect following a vehicle pursuit near the border in southern California. The pursuit ended at a gas station in Campo, California, Friday night.
El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents rescued four lost migrants on Tuesday in a wilderness area near Ocotillo, California. Mexican officials notified the sector’s Foreign Operations Branch to request assistance in finding the lost migrants.
Officials in San Diego, California, report at least four migrants died and as many as 27 were injured when a human smuggler’s overloaded vessel capsized off the coast.
San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents continue to arrest previously deported sex offenders after they illegally return to the United States. During the first five months of Fiscal Year 21, the agents arrested as many sex offenders as they did during the entire previous year.
San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a migrant armed with a 22-caliber revolver at an interior immigration checkpoint in Southern California.
Four San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents sustained injuries during a vehicle pursuit of a human smuggling suspect. The alleged smuggler, his passenger, and one of the smuggled migrants also sustained injuries.
San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents disrupted a “brazen smuggling event” when they discovered a convoy of six human smuggling vehicles loading a large group of migrants. The smugglers loaded up the migrants after they illegally crossed the border through a compromise in a border wall section.
San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents rescued a severely injured migrant from Otay Mountain after he illegally crossed the border from Mexico. The man severely injured his foot when he fell 15 feet down a waterway in the rocky mountains on Monday night.
CBP Air and Marine Operations crews and U.S. Border Patrol agents teamed up to interdict a human smuggling incident off the coast of Southern California. The off-shore incident was the second in the past week and led to the apprehension of multiple migrants and a human smuggler.
San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents rescued seven migrants from a drainage culvert after they illegally crossed the border from Mexico into California. The agents also found the body of a man who drowned in the culvert.
San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents and Mexican authorities teamed up to rescue a migrant who became stuck on the U.S. side of the border wall. The agents found the man hanging from a section extending into the Pacific Ocean.
U.S. Border Patrol agents became involved in two agent-involved shootings within hours of each other in Texas and California. Both shootings ended in the death of the subjects after agents were allegedly assaulted.
San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents joined local first responders to rescue two migrants who became trapped while climbing a new section of border wall. A third sustained an injury after falling.
San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents rescued 14 migrants over the Labor Day weekend. The rescues led to eight of the 14 being transported to hospitals due to heat-related illnesses. One admitted to starting a fire after becoming lost.
Land, sea, and ground-based federal agents disrupted a human smuggler attempt off the coast of California led to the arrest of nine migrants. The smugglers attempted to use the cover of darkness to move the migrants in a panga from Mexico to California.
A coordinated effort between a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations (AMO) aircrew and U.S. Border Patrol agents led to the seizure of “thousands of pounds” of suspected methamphetamine.
San Diego Sector Customs and Border Protection officers seized more than a ton of methamphetamine in two shipments of cacti. The busts in less than a week yielded seizures valued at nearly $4 million.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized a load of 614 pounds of methamphetamine hidden in a load of green onions from Mexico. Officials estimated the drug shipment to be worth approximately $1.4 million.
El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents carried out four separate rescue operations during an 18-hour period last week. The operations resulted in the rescue of seven illegal aliens in distress in the Jacumba Wilderness Region in Southern California.
Snake bites and dehydration from severe heat in the California desert mountains led migrants to call on Border Patrol for aid, which led to multiple air extractions and apprehensions.
Border Patrol agents in California arrested two previously deported child sex offenders and a man carrying a backpack filled with methamphetamine after they illegally crossed the border from Mexico. The arrests occurred in separate incidents in the El Centro and San Diego Border Patrol sectors.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations (AMO) interceptor boat crew shot out the engine of a human smuggler’s boat off the coast of California on Friday. A second smuggler’s boat managed to make it to shore and off-loaded its passengers. Border Patrol agents apprehended the migrants from the beached craft.
A Southern California hospital reports that Coronavirus patients are crossing the border from Mexico to seek treatment. The surge created a crisis in regional hospitals, prompting a patient transfer system across the state.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations agents interdicted a maritime human smuggling attempt off the coast of California. The smugglers attempted to move 18 illegal immigrants into the United States.
CBP Air and Marine Operations (AMO) agents tracked an ocean-going boat with a load of migrants for 6.5 hours before interdicting the failed human smuggling effort off the coast of California. The interdiction marks the second human smuggling bust in as many days for AMO agents.
