A New Mexico man who kidnapped and brutally beat an off-duty Border Patrol agent with a machete in June 2017 was sentenced to 31 years in prison, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.
Border Patrol agents shot pepper balls at a group of Venezuelans to drive them out of the U.S. during a tense and chaotic scene that unfolded near the U.S.-Mexico border Monday.
A record number of migrants have been arrested along the Mexico border with nearly 2.4 million detainments in the last 12 months.
An FBI investigation found that Border Patrol agents acted in self-defense when they killed a Mexican citizen after he advanced toward them with “an edged weapon” in the processing area of the agency’s El Paso station on Tuesday.
A Border Patrol agent on horseback was seriously injured while on duty last week.
Gloria Chavez served her final day as chief of the Border Patrol’s El Paso Sector on Friday.
An Arizona man accused of driving a Border Patrol agent’s vehicle off the road has been charged with assault on a federal officer with use of a deadly weapon, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.
As migrants flood the border, the wives of three Border Patrol agents are running for Congress to give voice to their husbands’ struggles.
