Border Patrol ‘will go anywhere’ to arrest illegal immigrants in 2026, chief says

Published December 24, 2025 4:00am ET



EXCLUSIVE — Border Patrol agents spent much of 2025 enforcing immigration laws inside the United States, far from the nation’s borders with Canada and Mexico.

Border Patrol chief Michael Banks told the Washington Examiner that the public can expect to continue seeing an unprecedented level of cooperation between Border Patrol and the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement in President Donald Trump’s second year in office.

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