The Border Patrol says an agent in Arizona accused of using his truck to knock over a migrant trying to flee has been indefinitely suspended since June 2018 after his indictment
The latest immigration effort by the president focuses on beefing up border security and rethinking the green card system so that it would favor people with high-level skills, degrees and job offers instead of relatives of those already in the country.
According to a CBP news release, the incidents took place over the weekend at the Port of Nogales, with the first happening at the Mariposa Crossing on Friday, May 10.
The federal government plans on replacing barriers through 100 miles (161 kilometers) of the southern border in California and Arizona, including through a national monument and a wildlife refuge, according to documents and environmental advocates
Dora Rodriguez almost died in the Sonoran Desert four decades ago. Now, she's sharing her story to let people know why she put her life on the line to come to the U.S.
Following a stunning reversal of fortunes, Pima County Sheriff Mark Napier calls the county board's decision to once again start accepting federal Stonegarden funding "a victory for good governance."
It has been a busy last few days for U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officers at the Nogales Port of Entry, as they seize more than 300 pounds of cocaine, heroin, fentanyl and methamphetamine and arrest seven people for attempted drug smuggling.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, CBP, is asking the public for its input concerning a proposed border barrier project to construct a new bollard wall in place of broken down and outdated designs in both Pima and Cochise Counties
A Republican and a Democrat from Texas teamed up for the measure, which will keep families together, call for more Homeland Security personnel and create more processing centers where needed.
In three separate incidents U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized nearly 268 pounds of heroin, fentanyl and methamphetamine at the Nogales Port of Entry.
Over the weekend, in five separate incidents, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested 5 people after they attempted to smuggle drugs across the border into the U.S. at both the vehicle and pedestrian crossings in the Port of San Luis, near Yuma, AZ.
The ensuing search led to the discovery of nearly 170 packages within the roof of the trailer that weighed more than 1,995 pounds, and have an estimated value of nearly $998,000.
In recent months KOLD News 13 has been showing video and pictures of large groups of asylum seekers illegally crossing into Arizona from Mexico...but Tuesday night there is new video showing the dangers of armed human smugglers.
$1.4 million in funding will allow the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) to continue its work combating human and drugs trafficking across the border.
According to BP, the pair were dropped off on a route that is used frequently by smugglers attempting to bring migrants, mainly from Central America, into the U.S. illegally
DFO Ramirez succeeds William K. Brooks (deceased), the previous Director of Field Operations, who had retired after a long and successful government career.
Andy Squire with the City of Tucson said on Sunday night, April 14 Catholic Community Services and immigration officials called Tucson officials including law enforcement and the mayor, letting them know they could not accept any more migrants.
Tucson’s Mayor Jonathan Rothschild is working the phones these days, not for reelection, but to find space to house the growing number of refugees expected in the near future.
Over the course of the weekend, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officers at the Nogales Port of Entry stopped five smuggling attempts worth more than $3.8 million and arrested six people.
Fisher Industries in Coolidge, Arizona invited members of Congress and U.S. Senate to witness how it can build 218 miles of border wall cheaply and quickly.
BP camera operators spotted the mass of people after several buses arrived south of the U.S.-Mexico border approximately 14 miles west of the Port of Lukeville. BP agents watched as the group exited the buses and walked under the vehicle barrier that sits on the international boundary.
All drugs and vehicles were seized by CBP officers, while all subjects were arrested and turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations.
Those who support the students took their fight to the Arizona Board of Regents meeting on Thursday, which was the second day protesters were on campus.
Facing bipartisan pushback on his immigration shake-up, President Donald Trump said Tuesday he's not looking to revive the much-criticized practice of separating migrant children from their families at the southern border.
President Donald Trump has pushed in recent weeks to reinstate the family separation policy at the southern border, and sought to close the U.S.-Mexico border at El Paso, TX, according to sources familiar with the matter. He also allegedly told border agents to not let migrants into the country.
Trump announced on Sunday in a tweet that U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan would be taking over as acting head of the Department of Homeland Security, replacing Kirstjen Nielsen.
President Donald Trump is threatening to slap tariffs on cars coming to the U.S. from Mexico unless the Mexicans do more to stop the flow of migrants trying to enter the U.S.
Monday morning, April 1, CBP officers at the Lukeville Port of Entry, 148 miles southwest of Tucson, pulled the Ford Mustang the three teens were traveling in for secondary inspection after a CBP canine alerted to it.
Trump last week threatened to seal the border this week if Mexico did not immediately halt all illegal immigration into the U.S., a move that would have enormous economic consequences on both sides of the border.
If their U.S. relatives can buy them a bus ticket, they are then taken to the central bus station. Their long journey is followed by confusion - a release with notices to appear in court, which many of them don't understand.
Two of the University of Arizona students at the center of an incident involving Border Patrol agents will face criminal charges, according to the school.
The driver is facing human smuggling charges and remains in custody pending a disposition in the case; the two men found in the trunk, both of whom were previously deported, are being processed for immigration violations.
Arrests all along the southern border have skyrocketed in recent months. Border agents are on track to make 100,000 arrests and denials of entry there this month, more than half of them families with children.
In a letter to lawmakers Thursday, she said she wants the authority to return unaccompanied Central American children to their home countries if they don't have a legal right to stay.
At a press conference on Thursday, March 28 at the Southside Presbyterian Church, Fernandez stood with her daughter and described what it was like while in custody.
The Tohono O'odham Police Department (TOPD) led the NATIVE High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Task Force in a multi-pronged sting operation that culminated in the seizure of the fentanyl and other drugs being smuggled into the U.S.
