CBP discovers 176 Haitians floating in overloaded wooden sailing boat. A Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations flight crew spotted the wooden sailing vessel last week…
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Gaps in Border Wall to be Completed
Homeland Security authorizes other expenditures. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced that they will use border security funding allocated by Congress to close wall gaps and pay for…
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CBP Seizes Over $30 Million in Fake Items
Counterfeit designer products discovered at California seaport. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) coordinating with import specialists of the Consumer Products and Mass Merchandising and special agents…
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Homeland Security Warns of Counterfeit Goods
Efforts made to alert shoppers as they prepare to buy on Black Friday. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Customs and Border Protection, and Homeland Security Investigations hosted an…
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Over 7,000 Brazilians and Venezuelans Illegally Cross Border
Agents say many come with luggage and cash. Tens of thousands of migrants from South America have flown into Mexico and crossed into a remote part of Arizona…
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CBP Confiscates Record Amounts of Smuggled Narcotics
Border agents and their canine partners successfully interdict shipments of illicit substances. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has continued to protect the American public from illegal drugs…
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CBP Seizes Over 50,000 Marijuana Atomizers
Shipment of 63 boxes from China contained illegally imported Tetrahydrocannabinol. This past week, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in Dulles seized 50,400 atomizers containing Tetrahydrocannabinol…
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Thousands of Migrants Camp Under Texas Bridge
Border Patrol is overwhelmed, official says. As of Friday, around 9,300 migrants had accumulated and are currently camping under the international bridge in Del Rio, Texas. The number…
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More Migrants, Border Agents Test COVID Positive
Many have been released into Texas and other border states. The Department of Homeland Security reported that the rate at which illegal immigrants are testing positive for COVID-19…
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U.S. Border Agents to Wear Body Cameras
Agency says the practice will “better enhance its policing practices.” On Wednesday, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced that some agents have begun to receive body-worn cameras…
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