The majority of likely American voters say President Trump should stop a caravan of anywhere between 150 to 1,500 Central Americans from entering the United States, a new poll finds.
New York Times best-selling author and populist conservative columnist Ann Coulter says President Trump is “not doing anything” about a caravan of about 1,500 Central Americans trying to seek asylum in the United States.
Dozens of “caravan migrants” camped out near the San Ysidro Port of Entry on Sunday night after being turned back by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). U.S. officials told the migrants their processing facilities were full and they would let them know when they could cross at a later date.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers stopped a Mexican national who allegedly attempted to smuggle nearly $600,000 in cash across the Arizona border into Mexico.
U.S. Border Patrol reported Saturday that it had apprehended several individuals “associated with the Central American Caravan” who were trying to cross illegally into the country.
Two hundred National Guard troops are now set to be stationed in the San Diego and El Centro sectors of the U.S. southern border in California, after a virtual ping-pong rally on whether or not California Gov. Jerry Brown would accept them.
Busloads of “caravan migrants” arrived in Tijuana on Tuesday evening. An organizer says they plan to “regroup” before making a decision on when, if, or where to cross the U.S. border.
Several reports indicate that the fragments of the “migrant caravan” are now arriving south of the U.S. border with Mexico. Border Patrol officials in California and Arizona said they have not seen any illegal border crossings between ports of entry this week.
Hundreds of additional National Guard troops ordered by the Trump administration may finally make it to the U.S. southern border in California after fierce negotiations between California officials and their federal counterparts.
A horse trailer carrying at least 18 suspected illegal aliens fishtailed from behind the truck hauling it and careened off of I-8 in east San Diego County, California on Saturday.
Border Patrol agents in southern Arizona prevented the deaths of 19 illegal immigrants after human smugglers abandoned them in the desert on Sunday morning. BORSTAR agents provided emergency medical assistance to one of the men who had to be transported by air ambulance to a hospital. Seven other migrants set off an emergency beacon prompting their rescue and 11 were found wandering lost in the desert.
Border Patrol agents in the Tucson Sector teamed up with other law enforcement agencies to help families in their attempt to identify the remains of migrants who died after crossing the border from Mexico. The agents are participating through the Missing Migrant Program.
A woman from Dallas, Texas, is in federal custody after customs officers caught her allegedly smuggling a 14-year-old boy into the U.S. using illegal documents.
U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Tucson Sector arrested an MS-13 member from Texas after reportedly discovering his attempt to smuggle illegal immigrants from Mexico.
Assaults on U.S. Border Patrol agents fell by 44 percent during the first five months of the current fiscal year. At the same time, the Department of Justice announced prosecutors would be more aggressive in prosecuting illegal immigrants who assault federal agents.
A Mexican national reportedly claimed to be a U.S. citizen in order to become a Border Patrol agent. The man worked for six years before the discovery.
Federal agents apprehended a former Texas teacher at the U.S.-Mexico Border on an outstanding felony warrant filed against her for alleged sexual misconduct with a 16-year-old male student.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers arrested a Texas man who is on the Texas Department of Public Safety’s (DPS) “10 Most Wanted Sex Offenders List” as he re-entered the U.S. from Mexico. One day earlier, Border Patrol agents in Arizona arrested another previously deported child sex offender who illegally crossed the border into Arizona.
The number of illegal immigrants apprehended by Border Patrol agents in the southwestern U.S. increased slightly in February. At the same time, the numbers of minors and family units apprehended decreased. The number of total migrant arrests are up substantially over the same month in 2017.
Vice President Mike Pence renewed the call to build a border wall after touring the U.S. southern border in Texas and meeting with border patrol and customs officials.
Border Patrol agents in the Tucson Sector arrested a previously deported Honduran national with a prior conviction for raping a woman in California. The arrest came shortly after the man crossed from Mexico into Arizona.
The apprehension of illegal immigrants crossing the southwestern border fell for the first time since April 2017. Border Patrol agents apprehended 25,980 in January trying to cross between legal ports of entry.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers apprehended a Mexican citizen on Friday who is wanted in Texas for sexual assault of a young girl. The fugitive Mexican national has an outstanding warrant for sexual-assault-continuous sexual abuse of a victim under the age of 14 years. The man attempted to enter the U.S. while traveling on a commercial bus.
U.S. Customs officers arrested a Mexican woman who allegedly smuggled 48 pounds of marijuana under and around the car seats of five children.
DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) recipients were arrested in two separate incidents of human smuggling operations in California over the course of two days last week.
A federal judge in South Texas sentenced a former customs officer to prison for his role in a failed human smuggling scheme. The law enforcement officer used his position at an international port of entry to allow an illegal immigrant to enter the country.
The number of families apprehended by Border Patrol agents grew by 625 percent from a low point in April 2017. The figure fell sharply during the first four months of the Trump Administration but has risen steadily thereafter.
The number of illegal aliens apprehended and determined to be inadmissible along the southwest border with Mexico rose again in December. The figures exceed those under President Barrack Obama in the months leading up to the surge of unaccompanied minors and families in 2014. The number of families apprehended in December 2017 rose 15 percent over the previous month.
Six defendants pleaded guilty in a Lubbock federal court to charges of smuggling large quantities of methamphetamine. The group was indicted in November 2017.
U.S. customs officials stopped a previously deported criminal alien from attempting to fly from Puerto Rico to Pennsylvania.
PHOENIX, Arizona — Federal agents continue encountering sophisticated drug smuggling operations whose members use radio communication systems, scouts, and other measures to avoid capture.
A crew of pilots from Texas with U.S. Customs and Border Protection helped capture a narco-sub that was carrying 3,800 pounds of cocaine in international waters near Panama.
For many, the winter blast that struck the southwestern U.S. over the past few days was seen as either beautiful or inconvenient — for illegal aliens crossing the border, it became a matter of life or death.
A report released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Tuesday morning shows that total apprehensions along the southwest border with Mexico dropped during Fiscal Year 2017. The reduction comes despite five straight months of increases in apprehensions most recently.
Border Patrol agents in the Texas Rio Grande Valley are saying that processing centers for illegal immigrants are frequently hitting full capacity. The reports from Border Patrol agents coincide with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reports about largely increasing numbers of apprehensions illegal immigrants in South Texas.
Federal officers stopped a multinational human smuggling run off the Atlantic coast of Florida on Saturday. The smugglers were reportedly attempting to land 24 illegal aliens from six countries near West Palm Beach.
Despite promises from U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, officials say an illegal alien who sent a Border Patrol agent to the hospital with a concussion is not being prosecuted for assaulting a federal agent. Agents previously told Breitbart Texas this is one of the contributing factors to Border Patrol agents being the most assaulted federal law enforcement officers.
Border Patrol agents say they are being forced into a catch-and-release situation again because immigration officials do not have room to house the increasing numbers of illegal aliens. The crossing figures have risen each of the past several months.
A Guatemalan national confessed to smuggling heroin into the U.S. via Newark Liberty International Airport. He thought he would evade arrest by concealing the drugs in chocolate.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The likely deportation of a 10-year-old girl who suffers from cerebral palsy needing emergency surgery at a children’s hospital sparked controversy in South Texas.
