An aerial interdiction by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations aircrew led to the seizure of nearly two tons of cocaine in the Caribbean Sea. Officials estimate the drugs to be worth approximately $65 million.
U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 208,000 migrants during the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2021 who illegally crossed the southwest border between ports of entry. This is the highest first-quarter figure since Fiscal Year 2000.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan celebrated the completion of 450 miles of “new border wall systems” at the end of 2020. The commissioner said Congress has approved funding for an additional 350 miles of barrier systems.
Reports indicate that hundreds of Cuban migrants attempted to force their way across the U.S.-Mexico border into El Paso, Texas. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers deployed Special Response Team members to repel the surge.
A California man died while attempting to crash through a border barrier from Mexico into the United States. The man also killed a pedestrian and injured another during the illegal border crossing attempt.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials reported significant decreases in illegal border crossings and drug smuggling in sections where new barriers were built. Some sections reported nearly a 90 percent decrease in illegal entries compared to last year.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers along with Border Patrol agents seized more than 38,000 pounds of methamphetamine during the first two months of the new fiscal year. This represents a 42 percent increase over the same period in Fiscal Year 2020.
A Tucson Air Branch Air and Marine Operations (AMO) helicopter aircrew teamed up with U.S. Border Patrol agents to rescue two migrants in the Boboquivari Wilderness Peak area. One became injured after falling in a steep canyon.
CBP Air and Marine Operations teamed up with other federal departments and a foreign government to seize more than 3,700 pounds of cocaine during a 10-day period. The joint air and sea operation in the eastern Caribbean Sea resulted in the arrest of 19 suspected drug smugglers.
In an interview with Fox and Friends, Acting Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Mark Morgan said on Wednesday that the incoming Biden administration’s policies on border security and the border wall signal that America’s borders will be open to illegal migrants, drug cartels, and traffickers.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working an international border crossing in Southern California seized more than $1 million in unreported currency headed to Mexico.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Eagle Pass, Texas, seized more than $1 million worth of methamphetamine found in two passenger vehicles attempting to cross the border into Texas from Mexico.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in California seized 430 pounds of methamphetamine at a U.S.-Mexico Border crossing.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested two Texas women in separate incidents for allegedly attempting to smuggle drugs through a U.S.-Mexico Border crossing. The women reportedly tried to move more than $800,000 in methamphetamine and fentanyl into Texas.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying accused America on Thursday of seeking to impose “forced poverty” on the nation’s Uyghur population by opposing their enslavement.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations aircrew teamed up with Coast Guard vessels to interdict a drug smuggling operation in the Caribbean Sea near the coast of Puerto Rico, officials stated.
American Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents will seize any imports into the country of cotton products by the Chinese Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), the U.S. announced on Wednesday, due to their use of slave labor.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized nearly 165 pounds of methamphetamine from a passenger vehicle attempting to cross the border from Mexico into South Texas.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized more than 480 pounds of methamphetamine and cocaine from two attempted border crossings at the Laredo Port of Entry.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized nearly $3 million in methamphetamine and heroin at a Texas crossing Tuesday. Officials report the 142 pounds of drugs were stashed in a shipment of carrots.
CBP officers seized more than 580 pounds of methamphetamine at a Texas border crossing from Mexico. The officers found the drugs in a commercial shipment at the Pharr International Bridge cargo facility.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized nearly $1.4 million in counterfeit currency at a Chicago mail facility. The shipment of fake cash came in from Ukraine, officials stated.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized more than 3,000 pounds of methamphetamine at two Texas border crossings in late October. Officials said the drugs had an estimated street value of more than $60 million.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in the Rio Grande Valley seized nearly 175 pounds of methamphetamine and cocaine at a Texas port of entry. The seizures came in two failed drug-trafficking events at the Hidalgo-Reynosa International Bridge.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in El Paso arrested a mother traveling with three children after finding drugs taped to her teenage son’s body. Officials report the U.S. citizen woman attempted to use her teen son to smuggle methamphetamine and fentanyl into Texas.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Laredo, Texas, seized more than 900 pounds of cocaine at a commercial border crossing checkpoint. The two separate seizures are estimated to be worth nearly $7 million, officials stated.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued a notice on Tuesday that accused a Chinese company of using “convict, forced, or indentured labor” to manufacture products that could be exported to the United States. The company in questioned is directly owned by the Chinese government.
U.S. Border Patrol agents expelled more than 197,000 migrants to Mexico after they illegally crossed into the U.S. In addition, agents expelled another 328 to Canada under Coronavirus protection protocols. Another 9,412 were expelled to Mexico and Canada by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working ports of entry.
The apprehension of migrants who illegally cross the border between ports of entry jumped again. The nearly 55,000 migrants arrested in September marks the fifth-straight month of increased apprehensions. However, apprehensions for the year fell by 53 percent from the previous year’s total.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in South Texas seized more than 125 pounds of methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin in two separate incidents. The seizure prevented more than $2 million in illicit drugs from reaching the streets of American cities.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Otay Mesa, California, seized a near-record 3,100 pounds of methamphetamine, fentanyl, and heroin at a commercial port of entry. The seizure is the second-largest seizure along the southwest border with Mexico in the agency’s history.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers assigned to the Nogales Port of Entry in Arizona seized 800 pounds of methamphetamine and fentanyl being smuggling into the United States from Mexico. This sets a new record for the Nogales Port of Entry.
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officers working the Calexico, California, port of entry seized more than $2 million worth of methamphetamine and fentanyl. The interdiction occurred on Thursday after the officers searched an SUV crossing from Mexico.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Brownsville, Texas, seized more than $46,000 in undeclared currency at a border crossing to Mexico. The officers also arrested the Mexican man attempting to smuggle the currency out of the country.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials awarded a pair of contracts to build new border barriers in previously unsecured sections of the Laredo Sector in South Texas. The nearly half-million-dollar contracts will add 40 miles of border wall systems where none previously existed. The Laredo Sector has approximately 110 miles of border along the Rio Grande.
Tucson Branch Air and Marine Operations aircrews carried out two rescues in recent days after migrants became lost in the Baboquivari Peak Wilderness area in Arizona.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Laredo, Texas, seized more than $10 million in methamphetamine, marijuana, and cocaine in four smuggling incidents. The seizures occurred during smuggling interdictions over a two-day period.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Eagle Pass, Texas, seized nearly $200,000 in unreported currency being smuggled into Mexico. This adds to the increasing amount of cash being seized at ports of entry.
Unmanned Aircraft System flights carried out by U.S. Customs and Border Protection led to multiple arrests along the Texas-Mexico border last week.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers disrupted a unique drug smuggling operation by finding cocaine and methamphetamine hidden in large boulders of quartz. Smugglers hid 229 packages of drugs inside the boulders and cemented them back together.
