Tag: Customs and Border Protection

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Video: ‘Viva Biden’ cheer smugglers, arrows show path into US

Paul Bedard · April 1, 2021 3:18 pm

Border Patrol video shows smugglers drop two young girls over 14-foot barrier

Jake Dima · April 1, 2021 1:00 pm

Sister Norma Pimentel greets migrant families who have just passed coronavirus tests after being released from federal custody in McAllen, Texas.

Government begins testing all migrant families released by Border Patrol in South Texas

Anna Giaritelli · April 1, 2021 1:27 am

Extreme overcrowding: Border Patrol tent in Donna, Texas, holding 5,700 migrants despite 250-person capacity

Anna Giaritelli · March 30, 2021 8:42 pm

Central American migrants prepare to board a bus as they voluntarily return to their countries, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, July 2, 2019.

Border Patrol has released 30,000 directly into US since January

Anna Giaritelli · March 30, 2021 4:15 pm

Twice as many children are in Border Patrol custody under Biden than Trump peak in 2019

Anna Giaritelli · March 30, 2021 1:32 pm

Border official: 861 criminal migrants, including 92 sex offenders, apprehended in Rio Grande Valley

Jake Dima · March 29, 2021 5:20 pm

In this June 5, 2014 photo, a Border Patrol agent uses a headset and computer to conduct a long distance interview by video with a person arrested crossing the border in Texas, from a facility in San Diego. Hit with a dramatic increase of Central Americans crossing in South Texas, the Border Patrol is relieving staffing woes by enlisting agents in less busy sectors to process arrests through video interviews.

Guatemalan man dies in Border Patrol custody, marking second death under Biden

Anna Giaritelli · March 29, 2021 12:39 pm

A U.S. Border Patrol boat navigates the Rio Grande near where the bodies of Salvadoran migrant Oscar Alberto MartÃnez RamÃrez and his nearly 2-year-old daughter Valeria were found, in Matamoros, Mexico, Monday, June 24, 2019, after they drowned trying to cross the river to Brownsville, Texas.

Nine-year-old Mexican boy dies after attempting to cross border river

Anna Giaritelli · March 26, 2021 12:38 pm

Dr. Herbert Hodes

Democrat who leaked photos from inside border facility speaks out: ‘People need to know what’s happening’

Anna Giaritelli · March 25, 2021 9:55 pm

Donna Processing Center in Donna, Texas

EXCLUSIVE: Young migrant girls held ‘over 20 days’ in Border Patrol tent

Anna Giaritelli · March 25, 2021 2:17 am

Senate GOP plans to force floor debate on measures to stem migrant border surge

Susan Ferrechio · March 24, 2021 5:25 pm