A Michigan-based Border Patrol agent was arrested after allegedly sending obscene material and soliciting sex from an undercover officer posing online as a 13-year-old girl, federal authorities said Wednesday.
A man armed with an assault rifle opened fire outside a U.S. Border Patrol facility near the U.S.-Mexico border early Monday, injuring a police officer before being shot and killed by authorities.
Federal agents have shut down a nearly 3,000-foot-long tunnel connecting Tijuana and San Diego that officials say was being built to smuggle drugs into the U.S.
The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed Rodney Scott as commissioner of CBP in a 51-46 party-line vote, despite accusations he helped cover up the death of a migrant in federal custody.
When Border Patrol trainee Nate Afolayan collapsed and died during an intense training program in southern California, his wife, Lisa, applied for federal benefits meant to support families of public safety officers who die in the line of duty.
Customs and Border Protection has quietly ordered its agents to steer clear of events hosted by organizations that support women or minority groups in law enforcement.
A federal judge has barred Border Patrol agents from stopping or arresting individuals in California’s Central Valley without reasonable suspicion or probable cause, following controversial immigration sweeps in January that led to nearly 80 arrests.
A Mexican man living in the U.S. without legal status has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for assaulting a Border Patrol agent during a failed human smuggling attempt, federal prosecutors said.
