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US Border Patrol to toughen policies on illegal immigrants

The U.S. Border Patrol is moving to halt a revolving-door policy of sending migrants back to Mexico without any punishment.The agency this month is overhauling its approach on migrants caught illegally crossing the 1,954-mile border that the United States shares with Mexico. Years of enormous growth at the federal agency in terms of staff and technology have helped drive down apprehensions of migrants to 40-year lows.The number of agents since 2004 has more than doubled to 21,000. The Border Patrol has blanketed one-third of the border with fences and other physical barriers, and spent heavily on cameras, sensors and other gizmos. Major advances in fingerprinting technology have vastly improved intelligence on border-crossers. In the 2011 fiscal year, border agents made 327,577 apprehensions on the Mexican border, down 80 percent from more than 1.6 million in 2000. It was the Border Patrol's slowest year since 1971.It's a far cry from just a few years ago. Older agents remember being s...

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  1. Job Hunting? Run for the Border

    In the dismal job market, the U.S. Border Patrol is hiring.

  2. Mexico says citizen shot by US Border Patrol agent near Texas

    A Mexican citizen has been fatally shot by U.S. Border Patrol agents on the border with Texas in an incident that the Mexican government is calling a disproportionat...

  3. US-Mexico tensions heightened after US Border Patrol agent kills Mexican teen near El Paso

    CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Mexicans are seething over the second death of a countryman at the hands of U.S. Border Patrol agents in two weeks, an incident near dow...

  4. Mexican government says US Border Patrol agent fatally shot Mexican on border

    Mexico's Foreign Relations Department says a Mexican has been fatally shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent on the frontier between the cities of Laredo, Texas, and Nue...

  5. Jury Convicts Mexican Man of Killing U.S. Border Patrol Agent

    A federal jury in San Diego convicted a Mexican man of second-degree murder Tuesday in the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent and federal narcotics violations.Jur...

  6. ACLU seeks court order stopping Border Patrol agents from making traffic stops

    The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Thursday against the U.S. Border Patrol seeking to bar agents from making traffic stops, saying people are being p...

  7. Fast and Furious documents: What do they show?

    Republicans are demanding more documents in the botched Operation Fast and Furious, saying they "have an obligation to get to the truth" and "a constitutional respon...

  8. Border Patrol Snitching on Minutemen?

    This is a partial transcript from " The O'Reilly Factor ," May 9, 2006, that has been edited for clarity.Watch "The O'Reilly Factor" weeknights at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m....

  9. Border Patrol procedure putting illegal immigrants at risk?

    Questions surround process of lateral repatriation

  10. Border Sweeps Move Inland

    For years,  border patrol ( search ) agents in Southern California have done just that — patrol the U.S. border with Mexico and highway checkpoints, arresting illega...

  11. Rep. Gowdy on The Investigation Into ‘Fast & Furious’

    Rep. Trey Gowdy, (R-SC), on the investigation into the murder of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry and its link to the ATF’s ‘Fast & Furious’ program.

  12. Border crossings, both legal and illegal, jump in 2012

    Border crossings -both legal and illegal - rose sharply between the U.S. and Mexico in 2012, sending mixed signals to members of Congress who have been critical of t...

  1. US Border Patrol to build station in last of unguarded Mexico border regions

    The U.S. Border Patrol Friday announced it is building an outpost in New Mexico's Bootheel, one of the last unguarded regions between the United States and Mexico.It...

  2. Teen gets 40 years in prison for 'cold-blooded' murder of US Border Patrol agent in California

    SAN DIEGO (AP) — A 17-year-old Mexican was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday for murdering a U.S. Border Patrol agent who was lured from his vehicle during an...

  3. U.S. Border Patrol Agent Sentenced in Arrest of Illegal Immigrant

    Border Patrol Field Operations Supervisor Diana Diaz on the two year sentence her husband, a Border Patrol Agent, received for a civil-rights violation during the arrest of an illegal immigrant.

  4. US Border Patrol asking people to text message any suspicious activity along Canada border

    METALINE FALLS, Wash. (AP) — U.S. Border Patrol agents often use horses to look for smugglers in the forested mountains along the Canadian border, but now will be ad...

  5. AP Exclusive: Border Patrol to toughen up policy on returning illegal border-crossers

    The U.S. Border Patrol is moving to halt a revolving-door policy of sending migrants back to Mexico without any punishment.The agency this month is overhauling its a...

  6. Mexico condemns Border Patrol shooting of teen; some demand agent's extradition to Mexico

    EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Mexico condemned the shooting of a 15-year-old boy by a U.S. Border Patrol agent Thursday through diplomatic correspondence and an angry phone ...

  7. Smugglers use cannon to shoot drugs into US , Border Patrol reports

    U.S. Border Patrol agents say smugglers have come up with yet another creative way to get drugs in the country -- a cannon.Authorities say 33 cans of marijuana were ...

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