A Cuban man found floating off the coast of Florida last week on what appeared to be a one-man vessel made of wood and foam says he was attempting to fish and never intended to reach the United States.
A court on Tuesday rejected a Lebanese doctor’s appeal challenging her deportation after border officers found Hezbollah images and videos on her cellphone.
In the span of less than a week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers managed to derail the plans of two drug couriers to bring $657,000 in narcotics into the United States through a single port of entry. Two United States citizens are now facing criminal charges for their roles in the failed smuggling venture at the Del Rio, Texas, Port of Entry.
An unofficial report from U.S. Customs and Border Protection indicates that the number of migrants arrested after illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border between ports of entry fell by nearly 95 percent from the peak of the Biden border crisis. In addition, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced in September that Border Patrol released no illegal aliens into the U.S. interior.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Air and Marine Operations (AMO) officially closed a legendary chapter in airborne border defense by completing the final operational flight of its last P-3 Airborne Early Warning (AEW) aircraft.
U.S. Border Patrol agents in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico worked alongside the Puerto Rico Police Department’s Fuerzas Unidas de Rapida Accion, a specialized tactical operations bureau formed in the mid-1980s and seized more than 560 pounds of cocaine on Monday. The maritime enforcement action resulted in the arrest of two United States citizens suspected of attempting to make landfall with the contraband.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers found and seized more than 260 pounds of cocaine at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in Southern California. Officers found the illicit drugs during a secondary inspection of a commercial passenger bus as the driver attempted to enter the United States from Mexico.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released “zero” migrants at the border during the last year, border chief Rodney Scott told Breitbart News.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) said that President Donald Trump should “absolutely not” get credit for the Anduril Industries investment in Maryland, because “Baltimore is strong on its face.” But “we have to be
The Department of Homeland Security is employing equipment at the border that cannot even be talked about, Secretary Markwayne Mullin revealed during an event with Breitbart News.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Del Rio Port of Entry discovered a stash of methamphetamine hidden in a vehicle by an alleged smuggler hoping to make it into the United States from Mexico on September 28. The smuggling scheme unraveled when CBP officers conducted a more intensive inspection after the smuggler arrived at the port of entry.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Port of Boston removed 87 foreign cruise ship crewmembers from the United States as part of an ongoing operation against child pornography. Dubbed “Operation Tidal Wave,” the initiative involves multiple law enforcement agencies targeting the possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material and child sexual exploitation material among cruise ship crewmembers.
According to a source within U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Border Patrol records show the running average for known got-aways nationwide dropped to fewer than 40 per day during the first two weeks of September. The drop is a 98.5 percent reduction from record-breaking daily peaks of more than 2,000 per day set during the Biden Border Crisis in 2023.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) is introducing legislation to combat illegal southern border tunnel crossings, Breitbart News exclusively learned.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Juarez-Lincoln Bridge in Laredo, Texas, thwarted a narcotics smuggler’s attempt to bring $2.5 million in dangerous methamphetamine into the United States. The multi-million-dollar seizure occurred in late August in a region known to be one of the busiest Mexican drug cartel smuggling corridors on the southwest border.
Milo Yiannopoulos has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in New Orleans, Louisiana and will soon be deported to the United Kingdom after overstaying his visa.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection Black Hawk aircrew provided a bird’s-eye view of a high-speed pursuit in far West Texas near the U.S.-Mexico border. The alleged human smugglers led the Texas Department of Public Safety and Border Patrol agents on a chase that reached speeds in excess of 100 mph, leading to an eventual bail-out and armed carjacking.
Officials of the Tohono O’odham tribe issued an update in the ongoing battle to stop the Trump administration from starting a 62-mile border infrastructure project within the narrow Roosevelt Easement between the southern boundary of the tribe’s reservation and the U.S. Mexico border. The tribe alleges armed, masked Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents escorted border wall construction contractors through the reservation on Tuesday in violation of Tohono O’odham laws.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers and Immigration and Customs Enforcement HSI special agents arrested eleven alien crewmembers at the Port of Boston during a recent operation targeting criminals involved in child pornography-related offenses. The investigation, dubbed “Operation Tidal Wave,” brought the officers and special agents from their home office in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Boston to make the arrests.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott announced his agency put a temporary halt to ongoing infrastructure projects underway at Big Bend National Park in West Texas. Scott announced on Monday on the social media platform X that the projects would be paused while he meets with local stakeholders and law enforcement this week.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer will spend more than nine years in prison for his role in helping the terrorist organization known as the Sinaloa Cartel move large quantities of drugs into California. The drug shipments included cocaine, fentanyl, and methamphetamine.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Del Rio, Texas, Port of Entry thwarted a cartel smuggling attempt to import more than $1.7 million in cocaine into the U.S. on August 4. Authorities arrested a 29-year-old United States citizen who arrived at the port of entry and is suspected of attempting to move the narcotics farther into the United States.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport port of entry seized nearly $4 million in counterfeit goods, including fake Louis Vuitton bags, Major League Baseball and Nike apparel, Cartier sunglasses, and Jaguar Land Rover computer systems.
In response to an outcry from local ranchers facing water shortages in drought-stricken New Mexico, construction contractors building a segment of the border wall have been ordered to pause drilling for water wells to produce concrete for the project. The voluntary pause comes after cattle ranchers in the area expressed concern that the wells could endanger their water supply in the future.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) 0fficer assigned to the Laredo, Texas, Port of Entry seized more than $1.1 million worth of cocaine during two failed smuggling attempts last week. The seizures at two Laredo Office of Field Operations (OFO) facilities late last month were part of ongoing efforts by CBP officers to stop the flow of illicit drugs from violent Mexican Cartels into the U.S. interior.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recruitment initiatives led to the highest number of Border Patrol agents in the agency’s history. The historic staffing level is leading to a historic drop in illegal border apprehensions not seen in nearly 70 years.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Air and Marine Operations (AMO) agents worked with the U.S. Border Patrol to interdict 37 illegal aliens and one United States citizen off the coast of Puerto Rico on Monday. The arrests involve two separate alien smuggling events interdicted on opposite sides of the island.
Brazil has extradited a man from Bangladesh to the U.S. to face charges for his alleged role in smuggling illegal aliens into the U.S.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Brownsville-Matamoros International Bridge in South Texas shut down a cartel smuggling attempt to import nearly $300,000 in cocaine on July 7. The port is part of CBP’s Laredo Field Office, which is currently the second-busiest region behind San Diego for narcotics seizures this fiscal year.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in Miami, Florida intercepted 22 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride at an air cargo warehouse near Miami International Airport. The officers are part of a special operation targeting narcotics smuggling activity during the FIFA World Cup 2026.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at ports of entry in Texas have seized more than 9,000 pounds of methamphetamine with a street value of more than $80 million in just four incidents during the month of June. The thwarted cartel smuggling attempts occurred in Laredo, El Paso, and Pharr, Texas.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at a Laredo, Texas, Port of Entry stopped smugglers from entering the United States with more than 1,100 pounds of methamphetamine. The agency determined the seizure had a street value of more than $10.1 million.
Border Security and Immigration policies put in place by the Trump administration are impacting apprehensions in the nation’s busiest northern border sector. Swanton Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended just over 100 illegal aliens in May. This is down 96 percent from the Biden-era peak two years ago.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) statistics provided to Breitbart Texas show that total apprehensions at the southwest border in May were lower than the single-day rates at the peak of the Biden border crisis. As Border Patrol apprehensions remain under 10,000 for the month, CBP tells Breitbart the release of illegal aliens at the border to pursue asylum remains at zero for the 13th consecutive month.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Air and Marine Operations (AMO) special agents detected a suspicious target of interest near Desecheo Island, Puerto Rico, which was later identified as a 30-foot rustic vessel. The rustic boat contained 40 migrants headed for the island. The occupants were apprehended and removed from the disabled vessel.
The Department of Homeland Security is “ahead of schedule and… below budget on building the border wall” from California’s beaches to the Texas coast, says Rodney Scott, the nation’s top border patrol leader.
WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed the Secure America Act, which funds the Department of Homeland Security through the end of his term.
President Donald Trump signs the Secure America Act into law at the White House on Wednesday, June 10.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations aircrew discovered an overcrowded boat loaded with approximately 240 migrants near the Turks and Caicos Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. CBP officials say the boat was taking on water and in danger of sinking prior to a rescue operation.
WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders on Wednesday to bolster customs enforcement and bring more accountability to the federal workforce.
