A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted two members of the 2nd American Militia who allegedly conspired to “start a war” with the U.S. Border Patrol and murder the agency’s officers, which ended in a shootout with FBI agents.
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.
Border Patrol saw a significant decline in apprehensions along the southwest border in January, according to new data from CBP.
A Texas congressman filed articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, arguing he broke the law over his handling of the border crisis.
The FBI arrested two Venezuelan nationals who authorities say “pushed, dragged and punched” a Border Patrol agent, the bureau said Tuesday.
A former Border Patrol agent wrote a scathing memoir about working for a federal agency that she describes as inhumane, chauvinistic, and lawless.
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.
