U.S. Border Security

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced that it is buying dozens of new, autonomous surveillance towers designed to help keep America’s borders secure.

Agriculture specialists examined a shipment, which came from Nigeria, and found a bunch of prohibited animal and plant products.

Border officers found a spider monkey hidden inside a truck.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents in Detroit have seized 4,619 drones that were made in China.

Immigrant's rights advocates say that the Trump Administration is using the coronavirus pandemic to turn away all asylum seekers coming to the U.S., including unaccompanied minors.

Border patrol agents seized 590 pounds of smuggled bologna and cold cuts in Texas in two different incidents.

Border patrol agents say they have thwarted two recent attempts to smuggle drugs into the U.S. via drones.

Federal data shows the number of people apprehended for illegally crossing from Canada into the United States along its northern border has nearly tripled over the past three years, to almost 1,600. U.S. Customs and Border Protection statistics also show what had become apparent anecdotally: a growing portion of those are Mexican citizens.

The Border Patrol agency says it is dealing with an increase in people being smuggled into the country in the back of tractor-trailers.

U.S. Border Patrol agents discovered 36 people being smuggled into the United States inside a sealed tractor-trailer.

U.S. Border Patrol agents are reporting a disturbing trend of smugglers attempting to use tractor-trailers to sneak people into the United States.

U.S. Border Patrol officers seized $37 million worth of methamphetamine at the Laredo Port of Entry from a commercial shipment of tomatoes from Mexico.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is delaying the deadline for REAL ID enforcement to October 1, 2021, due to the crisis caused by the global coronavirus pandemic.