The FBI is investigating a group of more than a dozen Uzbek nationals who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border as asylum seekers with the assistance of a smuggler with ties to ISIS, CNN reports.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas defended the Biden administration’s handling of the U.S.-Mexico border during a contentious House Judiciary Committee Hearing on Thursday.
A CBP officer was indicted Tuesday on numerous charges after prosecutors say he accepted bribes to allow vehicles carrying drugs to pass through the border into the U.S.
Border Patrol has seen a 50% decline in encounters at the southern border following the expiration of the pandemic-era limits on asylum known as Title 42, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Sunday.
A record amount of fentanyl was seized at the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal year 2022 as overdoses continue to reach alarming levels, according to CBP.
A record number of migrants have been arrested along the Mexico border with nearly 2.4 million detainments in the last 12 months.
At least 46 suspected migrants were found dead in and near a tractor-trailer on a remote road in San Antonio on Monday evening, and 16 others, including four children, were taken to a hospital.
The Border Patrol agent who was killed in a solo car crash in a rural area of California near the U.S.-Mexico border has been identified.
