Category: Customs and Border Protection

DHS to Let More Potential Illegal Immigrants Schedule Their Arrivals

The Department of Homeland Security said June 30 that more would-be illegal immigrants will be able to schedule their entry into the United States. The department’s Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will allow up to 1,450 appointments per day, an increase of 200 from the current number and of 450 from the number available in…


Border Patrol Releases Bodycam Footage of Fatal Nighttime Shooting of Arizona Man

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on June 22 released body camera footage of the fatal nighttime shooting of Ray Mattia outside his Tohono O’odham Nation home in Arizona on May 18. Ten Border Patrol agents captured the incident on their body-worn cameras, most of which was withheld from the public by CBP, pending an…


LIVE NOW: House Holds Hearing on ‘Resources to Disrupt Transnational Crime’

The Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs holds a hearing at 10 a.m. ET on March 8 on additional resources to disrupt transnational crime, titled “Force Multipliers: Examining the Need for Additional Resources to Disrupt Transnational Crime at the Border and Beyond.” Customs and Border Protection Office of Field Operations Deputy Executive…


House Holds Hearing on ‘Resources to Disrupt Transnational Crime’

The Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs holds a hearing at 10 a.m. ET on March 8 on additional resources to disrupt transnational crime, titled “Force Multipliers: Examining the Need for Additional Resources to Disrupt Transnational Crime at the Border and Beyond.” Customs and Border Protection Office of Field Operations Deputy Executive…


LIVE 10 AM ET: House Holds Hearing on ‘Resources to Disrupt Transnational Crime’

The Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs holds a hearing at 10 a.m. ET on March 8 on additional resources to disrupt transnational crime, titled “Force Multipliers: Examining the Need for Additional Resources to Disrupt Transnational Crime at the Border and Beyond.” Customs and Border Protection Office of Field Operations Deputy Executive…


New York Congressman Says Cartels Are ‘Controlling the Border’

Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-N.Y.) said cartels “are controlling the border,” following a recent trip to El Paso, Texas, with fellow colleagues on the House Homeland Security Committee. The New York congressman shared a video he recorded from a helicopter with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Air and Marine Operation, showing “what appeared to…


Border Patrol Seeking Contractors for Construction of Border Wall

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is accepting bids of up to $400 million per task for the construction of barriers and other infrastructure along the U.S.-Mexico border. According to the solicitation notice posted on Dec. 20, the five-year “Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity” (IDIQ) contracts involve the design and construction of “border barriers, anti-climb features,…


Border Patrol Seeking Contractors for Construction of Border Barriers, Infrastructure

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is accepting bids of up to $400 million per task for the construction of barriers and other infrastructure along the U.S.-Mexico border. According to the solicitation notice posted on Dec. 20, the five-year “Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity” (IDIQ) contracts involve the design and construction of “border barriers, anti-climb features,…


ICE Is Massively Misreporting How Many Illegal Immigrants Are Being Released With GPS Trackers

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is massively misreporting the number of illegal immigrants released into the country with GPS tracking technology by nearly 600 percent, according to an internal document exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. ICE disclosed privately to participants of a closed-door event about the agency’s “Alternatives to Detention” Thursday, attended…


‘We Lost Our Purpose’: Border Patrol Sees Surge in Suicides as Morale Plummets

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has seen four personnel die by suicide in the last two weeks, National Border Patrol Council Vice President-at-Large Sergio Moreno, who is part of the agency’s National Suicide Prevention Workforce, revealed to the Daily Caller News Foundation. Three Border Patrol agents died by suicide in the two week period,…