Border Patrol nabs 10 sex offenders crossing border in Texas
Since the beginning of the 2021 Fiscal Year, Border Patrol agents in the Del Rio Sector have arrested 95 convicted sex offenders, a 3,166 percent increase over the same time frame last year.
Americans can reenter US with expired passports through 2021, State Department says
The State Department is relaxing its rule and will allow Americans to reenter the U.S. with an expired passport through the end of 2021.
Border Patrol nabs 32 Mexican nationals dressed in camo in Arizona
Mounted Border Patrol officers arrested nearly three dozen border crossers decked out in camo near the Arizona-New Mexico state line.
23 rescued from suspected human smuggling boat off California
Twenty-three people were rescued Monday from a suspected smuggling boat off the San Diego coast not far from where another vessel broke up a few weeks ago, killing three people, authorities said.
Canada may not reopen U.S. border until 75% are vaccinated
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is suggesting that three-quarters of Canadians will need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 before the Canada-U.S. border can be reopened.
HHS redirects over $2B in COVID-19 funds for migrant children in shelters
The Biden administration says it has directed the Department of Health and Human Services to reroute more than $2 billion of COVID-19 funds to help cover the costs of supporting unaccompanied migrant children that have arrived in the U.S.
'There was no going back': Migrants send kids into US alone
Growing numbers of migrant families are making the heart-wrenching decision to separate as they try to get their children into America.
Border Patrol finds 5 abandoned migrant children in Texas
U.S. Border Patrol agents found five young unaccompanied children, one just 11-months old, in Texas.
‘We Build the Wall’ campaign co-founder indicted on charges of tax fraud
Brian Kolfage, co-founder of the “We Build the Wall” online fundraising campaign, has been indicted for alleged tax fraud by the North District of Florida attorney’s office.
Dozens of migrant children at Long Beach, Pomona centers treated for COVID-19
About four dozen migrant children being housed at an intake center at the Long Beach Convention Center have tested positive for COVID-19, along with 14 more at the Pomona Fairplex.
U.S. to begin reuniting families separated at border
Three months after President Biden created of the Family Reunification Task Force, his administration announced that four families would be reunited soon.
U.S. strike force intercepts narco-submarine near Puerto Rico
Coast Guard members boarded a so-called narco-submarine and found about 2,500 kilos of cocaine inside.
Number of migrants hiding on trains into US spikes
People have been found riding on top of rail cars, holding onto the undercarriage, and even within new vehicles that are being shipped north.
Smugglers attempt to float pickup truck across Rio Grande into U.S.
Smugglers attempted to float a Ford Ranger pickup truck with over $500K of marijuana aboard across the Rio Grande River in Texas.
More live finches found in luggage at JFK Airport
U.S. Customs agriculture specialists inspecting a piece of luggage found 40 finches stuffed inside hair rollers.
149 people found locked in tractor-trailer in Texas
U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to a checkpoint on I-35 near Laredo found 149 locked in a tractor-trailer.
Biden orders ICE, CBP to drop ‘illegal aliens,’ ‘assimilation’ when referring to migrants
President Joe Biden has ordered departments not to use certain terms when referring to noncitizens.
Homeland Security surveillance plan at Canadian border questioned
The Department of Homeland Security has agreed to reopen the public comment period on plans to build a number of high-powered surveillance towers along Vermont's border with the Canadian province of Quebec.
Smugglers drop 2-year-old from border wall, Border Patrol says
Border Patrol agents saw smugglers drop the infant from the top of the wall into the arms of its father.
US to keep migrant families in hotels as amid rush for space
Migrant families will be held at hotels in the Phoenix area in response to a growing number of people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, another step in the Biden’s administration rush to set up temporary space.