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The United States Border Patrol is a federal law enforcement agency within U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a component of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
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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...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...
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...
Authorities say it was a special delivery indeed: 13 illegal immigrants stuffed in a phony UPS van.The U.S. Border Patrol says agents in Southern California stopped ...
The U.S. Forest Service's use of Border Patrol agents as language interpreters and for law enforcement in stops involving Latinos on Washington state's Olympic Penin...
TUCSON, Ariz. -- Authorities continue to comb the rugged southern Arizona terrain during the manhunt for a suspect they say was involved in the deadly gunfight that ...
Authorities say three and a half tons of marijuana have been found floating in the ocean off Southern California.A boater spotted 160 bales of pot around noon Sunday...
SAN DIEGO -- A Mexican man was sentenced to life in prison Friday for striking and killing a U.S. Border Patrol agent with a drug-laden Hummer as the officer laid sp...
A Mexican man was sentenced to life in prison Friday for striking and killing a U.S. Border Patrol agent with a drug-laden Hummer as the officer laid spike strips in...
The U.S. Border Patrol on Tuesday unveiled its first national strategy in eight years, a period in which the number of agents more than doubled and apprehensions of ...
Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich have promised to complete a nearly 1,950-mile fence. Michele Bachmann wants a double fence. Ron Paul pledges to secure the nation's sou...
SAN DIEGO -- A Mexican man who died after being shocked by a stun gun during a fight with U.S. Border Patrol agents will be buried in San Diego.Anastasio Hernandez w...
SAN ANTONIO -- U.S. Border Patrol agents fired gunshots into Mexico after coming under attack during a half-ton drug bust and giving chase to a truck along the Rio G...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Questions surround process of lateral repatriation
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