Tag: Customs and Border Protection

A construction worker walks along where a border wall is being built in Mission, Texas, Monday, Nov. 16, 2020. Joe Biden would face immediate pressure to fulfill his pledge to stop border wall construction.

Border wall construction to continue past Inauguration Day

Paul Bedard · December 4, 2020 4:01 pm

Biden plan to stop border wall construction bump up against what Trump has already built

Anna Giaritelli · December 3, 2020 4:57 pm

In this Jan. 5, 2016, photo, a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle drives next to a U.S-Mexico border fence in the booming New Mexico town of Santa Teresa. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)

Beltway Confidential

Low crime rates in border cities say nothing about the chaos caused by illegal immigration

Eddie Scarry · December 1, 2020 7:57 pm

Border officials stunned by surge of marijuana smuggling at northern border

Anna Giaritelli · November 25, 2020 11:30 am

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Pinckney transits the Panama Canal Aug. 7, 2020. Pinckney is deployed to the U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility to support Joint Interagency Task Force Southâs mission, which includes counter illicit drug trafficking in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific.

Trump’s counternarcotics strategy nets 216 metric tons of cocaine and 74K pounds of marijuana worth $5.7B

Abraham Mahshie · November 24, 2020 7:36 pm

Five men are taken into custody by agents. Two men, seated on the left, are suspected by Border Patrol Agent Christian Alvarez to be smugglers who were leading the other three through the brush.

US border chief: Illegal immigrants putting agents at risk of death from COVID-19

Anna Giaritelli · November 19, 2020 10:09 pm

Trucks wait in line on the Pharr International bridge near the Texas-Mexico border, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015, in Pharr, Texas.

CBP finds $11.6M worth of alleged methamphetamine in broccoli shipment

Spencer Neale · November 18, 2020 8:42 pm

Mexico pays US in new deal to jail or fine people caught cutting border fence

Anna Giaritelli · November 18, 2020 11:30 am

A man passes new border wall sections, right, as they replace the old fencing, left, Friday, Jan. 10, 2020, near Yuma, Arizona. Top Trump administration officials will visit South Texas five days before Election Day to announce they have completed 400 miles of U.S.-Mexico border wall, attempting to show progress on perhaps the president's best-known campaign promise four years ago. But most of the wall went up in areas that already had smaller barriers.

Southern border wall expected to hit 450 miles by end of the year

Mica Soellner · November 16, 2020 5:59 pm

President Trump's immigration policies won support from Hispanics and Democrats, according to a new survey shared by the Federation for American Immigration Reform.

Washington Secrets

Another surprise: Hispanic, Democratic voters backed Trump immigration limits

Paul Bedard · November 16, 2020 1:24 pm

Border Patrol to begin disclosing how many illegal border crossers get away

Anna Giaritelli · November 12, 2020 12:23 am

Cuccinelli: ‘Dystopian scenario’ of Twitter censorship is ‘deeply troubling’

Anna Giaritelli · November 2, 2020 10:03 pm