WILL WEISSERT
Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas
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 southern border by any means necessary, and Rick Perry says he can secure it without a fence — and do so within a year of taking office as president.
But a border that is sealed off to all illegal immigrants and drugs flowing north is a promise none...Read Full Story
Border Patrol Agent Jesus “Chito” Diaz was arrested and convicted for what amounts to him ‘doing his job’, after being cleared of any wrongdoing by Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Office of Professional Responsibility.
Customs and Border Protection Office of Internal Affairs decided to pursue the matter on their own and convinced the United States Attorney in the Western District of Texas to prosecute Diaz.
Diana Diaz, a...Read Full Story
Yesterday was DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano’s turn to get roughed up by Rep. Darrell Issa, who is spearheading a probe into ATF’s controversial Operation Fast and Furious. The Operation encouraged Arizona gun dealers to work with ATF and sell assualt weapons to straw purchasers, all with the hopes of tracing guns to the Mexican cartels.
Two federal agents under the jurisdiction of the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement HSI Special Agent Jamie Zapata and...Read Full Story
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June 8: U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent Sanchez patrols along the Rio Grande in Penitas, Texas. Between October 2009 and March 2011, U.S. Border Patrol detained at least 2,600 illegal immigrants from India, a dramatic spike considering apprehensions of Indian border-jumpers had historically hovered between 150 and 300 per year.
LOS FRESNOS, Texas – Police wearing berets and bulletproof vests broke down the door of a Guatemala City apartment in February hunting for illegal...Read Full Story
The 1,200 National Guards that US President Barack Obama ordered to the border with Mexico to help crackdown on smuggling and drug trafficking will begin deploying next month, a senior official said Monday. Alan Bersin, the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection -- better known as the "Border Czar" -- said the deployment will begin August 1, and that the troops should be fully in place by September. The soldiers "will provide direct support to federal law enforcement officers and...Read Full Story
AMHERST, N.Y. - Three people have been hospitalized after a Border Patrol vehicle struck a car that was pushed out of it's lane by another car. According to police, Richard Abwender was traveling west on the 290 when he noticed an emergency vehicle ...
Agents Call Plan "More Work for Less Pay; Some Work for No Pay" WASHINGTON, Feb. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The President of the Union representing U.S. Border Patrol Agents strongly condemned the pay reduction plan spearheaded by the ...
SEATTLE (AP) — U.S. Border Patrol agents in Washington state got a rare request earlier this month: a man illegally in the country asked to be deported. According to a weekly report from Border Patrol's Blaine sector, the Mexican national walked into the ...
Last month, the Forks Human Rights Group asked Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano for an investigation into Border Patrol practices on the Olympic Peninsula. Yesterday, Napolitano got a letter from a much broader group: a coalition of ...
Arrests by Border Patrol agents in the two-week period ending Jan. 30 included two Mexican nationals apprehended near Forks. Border Patrol agents made the arrests Jan. 21 after a traffic-stop request for assistance from a Jefferson County ...
Laredo, Texas – Border Patrol agents assigned to the Hebbronville station seized approximately 111 pounds of marijuana. The seizure occurred on Feb. 5, 2012, at the Hebbronville Station Highway 16 checkpoint where BP agents found 32 bundles of narcotics ...
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent was hospitalized after suffering serious injuries while on horseback. The agent was knocked off his horse near the U.S. Mexico border around 11 p.m. Wednesday. Apparently the agent hit his head on a ...
This morning on Fox and Friends Lana Domino, a friend of murdered Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, commented on Attorney General Eric Holder's testimony yesterday about the Department of Justice Operation Fast and Furious and Holder's refusal to apologize to the Terry family for Brian's death, which was a result of the lethal program. As Domino expressed in the interview, Holder is refusing to hold himself or anybody else accountable for...
The family of murdered border patrol agent Brian Terry has filed a $25 million wrongful death law suit against the federal government and ATF. The law suit claims that the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives knowingly sold guns to Mexican drug cartels under the Fast and Furious program, guns that were responsible for the death [...]
PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) — The new agent in charge at the Border Patrol's Port Angeles station has made community outreach one of his top jobs. On his first day on the job Jan. 23 Jay Cumbow met with members of Forks Human Rights Group, which has ...
Tragically, Border Patrol agent Robert Rosas was fatally shot yesterday while working on the U.S.-Mexico border. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano offered ...
Tragically, Border Patrol agent Robert Rosas was fatally shot yesterday while working on the U.S.-Mexico border. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano offered ...