Jan 14, 2025 · The U.S. Border Patrol’s encounters in December were 81% lower than in December 2023, maintaining the downward trend in encounter numbers since June. Total southwest border irregular encounters in December, including encounters at ports of entry of noncitizens without a CBP One appointment, were 52,082 compared to …

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Jan 25, 2025 · SAN DIEGO (AP) — Long stretches of silence on a Border Patrol scanner are punctuated with updates on tracking a single migrant for hours. The radio traffic sounds like a throwback to earlier times, before the United States became the largest destination for asylum-seekers in 2017. “There’s a pair way down there.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announces the arrest and prosecution of five aliens from the Dominican Republic found as… PROGRESO, Texas – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Progreso Port of Entry this weekend encountered a man wanted on an outstanding felony…

Jan 9, 2025 · Immigrant communities in Kern County, California, are on edge as the U.S. Border Patrol has been seen conducting enforcement operations throughout the region this week. Videos and images that surfaced online appear to show Border Patrol agents apprehending people at various locations throughout the region.

3 days ago · A dead Border Patrol Agent in Vermont. An LSD-taking vegan carrying a pistol linked to two Pennsylvania homicides. An elderly California witness was ambushed and fatally stabbed. Artificial ...

Jan 21, 2025 · COVENTRY, Vt. (AP) — A U.S. Border Patrol agent was fatally shot Monday on a highway in northern Vermont south of the Canadian border, authorities said. The death was confirmed by the FBI and Benjamine Huffman, acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security in Washington.

Jun 20, 2024 · Preliminary federal government figures show the number of people arrested by Border Patrol agents fell by 25% since President Joe Biden announced new rules restricting asylum access two weeks ago.

Jan 28, 2025 · US Border Patrol agents and suspected Mexican cartel members traded gunfire near the southern border Monday as a group of migrants tried to enter the US illegally, according to a report.

Nearly one-third of the cameras in the Border Patrol’s primary surveillance system along the southern U.S. border are not working, according to an internal agency memo sent in early October,...