In three separate incidents, officers with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized $850,000 in cocaine and heroin. The seizures took place over the weekend in the Tucson Sector in southern Arizona.
Central and South American immigrants are finding loopholes in order to manipulate the United States immigration system so they can stay. Law enforcement officials from the various agencies that make up the Department of Homeland Security have reached out to Breitbart Texas pointing out the new practices being taught to illegal immigrants by smugglers.
Federal authorities working at Texas/Mexico border crossings arrested two women in separate incidents who were allegedly smuggling a total of $250,000 in methamphetamine.
Officers with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Service (CBP) seized over $1 million worth of cocaine in separate incidents at multiple Texas border ports of entry.
U.S. Border Patrol Agents working in the Tucson Sector teamed up with Mexican law enforcement officials to conduct “mirrored operations” on both sides of the border leading to the arrests of nearly 500 people and the seizure of $12.5 million in marijuana.
Federal authorities in Laredo, Texas, seized over $1 million worth of crystal methamphetamine during a cross border smuggling attempt on Tuesday.
Total apprehensions of illegal aliens crossing the southwest border are up in March by twenty-eight percent above February. Of the overall total of 33,335 total captures on the southwest border in March, over 4,200 were unaccompanied alien children (UACs).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in Laredo, Texas, seized over a ton of marijuana and some unwanted wood-boring pests in a shipment of wooden pallets.
Federal aircrew members of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Air and Marine Operations (AMO) detected suspicious boats and maintained surveillance until partners could interdict the load of 1,470 pounds of cocaine.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers working a cargo facility on the Mexican border in southern California seized over seven tons of marijuana. The seizure came in spite of the legalization of the drug in that western state.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the Port of Nogales, Arizona, seized nearly $2 million in drugs this week.
Border Patrol agents in southern California seized over $1.2 million in cocaine following a vehicle stop near an inland checkpoint.
Officers with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Service (CBP) seized $7.4 million in marijuana that was discovered at a commercial facility in southern Arizona. Separately, officers seized nearly $800,000 in hard drugs at border crossings.
Border patrol agents in Tucson, Arizona, arrested more human smugglers attempting to traffic illegal migrants in the trunks of vehicles. There have been two such incidents in the last several days. On April 16, a driver attempted to avoid detection at
A Mexican national wanted in the state of Washington on a charge of sexually assaulting a young girl turned himself in to authorities at the U.S.-Mexico border in New Mexico.
Federal authorities in southern Arizona have seized more than $600,000 worth of cocaine during a smuggling attempt. In Texas, over $150,000 in cash was seized while being smuggled into Mexico.
During a routine patrol on Thursday morning, an El Centro Border Patrol agent discovered a tunnel spanning the U.S.-Mexico southern border.
Seventeen suspected illegal aliens aboard a panga boat sent a distress signal off the coast of San Diego on Tuesday morning that led the U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to apprehend the group.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in what is frequently reported as the “Safe City” of El Paso, Texas, busted a woman attempting to enter the United States from Mexico with about $1.6 million worth of methamphetamine.
Shawn Moran, Vice President of the National Border Patrol Council, which has endorsed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, stated that Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection R. Gil Kerlikowske is a commissioner “who is more political than ever” and immigration laws are
Officers with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized a shipment of tactical weapons and ammunition that was being smuggled into Mexico.
Officers with U.S. Customs and Border Protection Field Operations (CBP) seized more than 5,500 rounds of ammunition that was being smuggled into Mexico in southern Arizona.
A Saudi Arabian man who was previously convicted in the United States for distributing child pornography was arrested by Border Patrol Agents near the Canadian border. Agents from the Erie Border Patrol Station were called to assist officers from Immigration
Agents of the U.S. Border Patrol continue to discover child predators and other dangerous criminals crossing the border. This week, in the Rio Grande Valley Sector alone, three convicted child predators, an alleged rapist, and two gang members were arrested. Another man was arrested with nearly $2 million worth of methamphetamine.
A massive manhunt for an accused human smuggler who also allegedly assaulted a Border Patrol Agent with a softball sized rock came to a close late last week with his arrest in southern California.
While claiming to stay out of politics, the commissioner for U.S. Customs and Border Protection said there is no future for building walls in America, when asked about Trumps wall.
Border crossings by Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) and Family Units rose significantly during the first four months of FY 2016 when compared to the same period in FY 2015. Some Border Patrol sectors reported in excess of 500 percent increases in both categories.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seized nearly $1.5 million worth of drugs in a five-day period along the Texas border with Mexico. The drug seizures also resulted in six arrests.
Heroin and methamphetamine worth more than a million dollars were discovered in a secret compartment under a pick-up truck in Del Rio by Customers and Border Protection (CBP) officers on Friday.
The National Border Patrol Council reported on its weekly podcast that Border Patrol agents testified before Congress about being ordered to not only release illegal immigrants who have crossed the border, but to also release illegal aliens who have committed previous crimes in this country.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seized $350,000 in cocaine and marijuana during the final week of January in Brownsville, Texas. The nations “front-line” security screen thousands of cars every day, but found four in five days that were loaded with illegal drugs.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Air and Marine Operations division announced late last week it is testing a program to operate Predator drones from a civilian airport in San Angelo, Texas.
The U.S. reissued guidelines on labeling settlement products amid Palestinian disgruntlement, even though the State Department maintains that there have been no changes to U.S. policy. Following Palestinian complaints that some West Bank products were being labeled “Made in Israel,”
MCALLEN, Texas — An officer with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is facing federal bribery and computer misuse charges following his Thursday morning arrest.
While the law has dictated for well over a decade that the government implement a biometric tracking system for foreign travelers in the U.S., the Department of Homeland Security still has no date set for its implementation, according to a Customs and Border Protection official.
Mexican drug smugglers tried to disguise a ton of marijuana as fake carrots inside a freight shipment. The drugs were shaped into small long packages that were orange colored as to disguise them with the real carrots.
One of the fathers traveling with the Muslim family banned from entering the U.S. this week has denied any alleged links to Islamist extremism after a Facebook page set up at his home address was discovered, praising al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
Officers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) fired shots at a vehicle driving recklessly towards the inspection station of an international bridge between Texas and Mexico on Thursday.
A two-month border surge has brought nearly 11,000 Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) across the border into the United States from Mexico. The numbers of children crossing without parents is double that of the same period from 2014.
A South Korean girl band made waves this week when its management team said band members were detained and denied entry at Los Angeles International Airport because authorities believed they were prostitutes — but a federal official has since denied the claims, saying the group did not possess the proper visas to enter the United States.
