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Texas Department of Public Safety officials reported via Twitter early Thursday morning that someone from U.S. Customs and Border Protection contacted them to request assistance in shutting down “ports” of entry in the Del Rio area. DPS claims CBP later reversed or denied ever making the request.

Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 200,000 migrants who illegally crossed the border from Mexico during the month of August. This represents an increase of more 312 percent increase over the same month in 2020.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents are reportedly investigating claims by young female Afghan refugees that they were raped and forced to marry much older men in order to escape from the Taliban. 

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized multiple firearms, gun parts, and ammunition headed to Mexico. The seizures took place at the Nogales Port of Entry over the weekend.

The number of migrants crossing the border without being apprehended soared to more than 340,000 migrants so far this Fiscal Year 2021, according to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection source. This figure represents an estimate of the total number of migrants believed to have escaped into the U.S. interior without capture or apprehension by Border Patrol agents.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection aircrews teamed up with the Coast Guard to seize nearly nine tons of cocaine in three separate incidents in July and August. The 17,620-pound seizures had an estimated street value of more than $333 million, officials stated.

The Department of Homeland Security announced on Friday an extension of the non-essential travel ban at land border ports along the U.S./Mexico and U.S./Canada borders. The ban, now in place for over 18 months, prohibits nonimmigrant visa holders from entering the United States for recreational travel, shopping, or visiting relatives.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers found several packages from China containing counterfeit Drug Enforcement Administration and FBI badges. The fake badges were destined to various locations around the country.

Colombia and Panama agreed to limit the flow of U.S.-bound migrants from various continents transiting through their territory to 650 per day.

The CBP released statistics on Thursday that show more than 200,000 people were encountered on the border in July.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized a large quantity of undeclared pharmaceutical medications and arrested the alleged smuggler. The search of a woman attempting to enter the United States from Mexico yielded more than 8,500 undeclared pills.

Mark Morgan, former acting CBP commissioner, said Democrats plan to include an amnesty proposal within ostensibly infrastructure-focused bill.

An increasing number of migrants from outside the Northern Triangle (NT) is flocking to the U.S. as Biden team focuses on Northern Triangle.  

U.S. authorities recently launched an effort to prevent companies implicated in trafficking illegal migrants into the United States from renewing or obtaining insurance policies for their “commercial enterprises,” a top American official testified Tuesday.

Federal agents examining a cargo ship near New Orleans told it to vacate the country once they found it was infested with a certain type of Asian beetle.

Presiden Biden’s policies are attracting a growing number of migrants from beyond Mexico and Northern Triangle seeking to enter U.S.

Elected officials from both parties are expressing anger over the Biden administration’s decision Wednesday to keep the U.S. border with Canada closed.

Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 178,000 migrants in June along the U.S. border with Mexico, marking the largest single-month increase since March. The increasing number of apprehensions led to a total of 1,076,242 migrants apprehended so far this fiscal year.

Mexican adults make up the largest demographic driving the record surge of border crossers encountered by U.S. Border Patrol agents in recent months, particularly in California, a report reveals.

The majority of migrants encountered U.S. agents along the border this year hailed from outside the three Northern Triangle countries.

A lawsuit filed last week alleges that President Joe Biden’s administration is refusing to disclose information related to the Chinese coronavirus transmission, testing, and treatment of illegal aliens who are then released into the United States interior. 

Democrats use illegal immigration to change American demographics for political benefit, Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC) told Breitbart News on Sunday.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Wednesday banned the import of solar panel materials from Hoshine Silicon Industry, a Chinese company accused of enslaving Uyghur Muslims.

“We’re going to see more dead bodies,” Mark Morgan, former chief operating officer and acting commissioner for Customs and Border Protection (CBP), said of the Biden administration’s border security and immigration policies on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak, author of The Zionist Conspiracy: (and how to join it).

Border Patrol agents and CBP officers working opposite ends of the Texas-Mexico border arrested multiple sex offenders attempting to illegally re-enter the U.S. after being deported.

The Biden team’s permissive migration enforcement policy is causing economic chaos among poverty-stricken Central Americans.

U.S. border authorities reunited a Nicaraguan boy rescued by U.S. Border Patrol nearly two months ago after smugglers abandoned him.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized a load of smuggled semi-automatic rifles during an attempt to cross into Mexico from Texas. The officers seized eight rifles and magazines.

Mark Morgan, former chief operating officer and acting commissioner for Customs and Border Protection (CBP), told Breitbart News on Sunday that 300,000 aliens illegally entered the U.S. across its southern border since October of 2020.

Migrants from Central America and Mexico face no legal hazards for making repeated attempts to sneak through the border.

The U.S. border patrol chief defended the Biden administration’s decision to release illegal migrant family units without a court date.

The Biden administration is offering another bite at the apple for some of the migrants deported under President Donald Trump, the acting chief of the U.S. border patrol indicated Wednesday.

The Chinese government on Wednesday denounced U.S. Customs officials for blocking a shipment of shirts from Japanese casual wear designer Uniqlo because they violated a ban on slave-picked cotton in China’s Xinjiang province.

The number of migrants encountered by officers and agents operating under U.S. Customs and Border Protection along the southwest border with Mexico jumped for the 11th straight month. In April, Border Patrol agents and CBP officers encountered more than 178,000 migrants — a nearly 945 percent increase over the same month in 2020.

A law enforcement source within Customs and Border Protection says more than 185,000 migrants escaped Border Patrol apprehension so far this fiscal year. On average, more than 30,000 illegal aliens avoided capture in the last 22 days the source said.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officials announced the opening of another Emergency Intake Site (EIS) to move the increasing numbers of unaccompanied children out of Customs and Border Protection custody. The move mirrors recent announcements by HHS