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Four border patrol agents are facing disciplinary action for their response to a migrant surge last year. U.S Customs and Border Protection announced the move in a statement on Friday, following a 10-month investigation. Officials say the incident took place on Sept. 19, 2021, in Del Rio, Texas, where a group of horse-mounted agents “used force or […]
Crossing the border back into Canada is always slightly nerve wracking, even if you’re a passport-holding citizen and not up to anything sus. Those Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) employees always know how to put on the right amount of intimidation every time. Turns out, however, that the rules are being bent for some folks […]
In what’s being called an “unusual” level of detail in hiding narcotics, authorities have seized nearly $3 million worth of meth in a tractor-trailer onion shipment this past week. An unnamed 46-year-old Mexican national who was driving the vehicle was arrested at the Otay Mesa vehicle facility for allegedly smuggling the drugs, per ABC, after a U.S. Customs […]
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized some peculiar cargo a month ago, finding almost 4,000 bongs that had been flown into the Washington Dulles International Airport. The drug paraphernalia was brought in from China and reached the states on Oct. 2. Despite marijuana being legal in several states, a release from CBP noted that “the glass bongs […]
ComplexCon returns to Long Beach Nov. 6 – 7 with hosts J. Balvin and Kristen Noel Crawley, performances by A$AP Rocky and Turnstile, and more shopping and drops. Secure your spot while tickets last! Buy tickets U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized 51 packages containing nearly $1 million worth of cocaine in Texas earlier […]
White House press secretary Jen Psaki was asked Monday about a recent photo which appears to show a U.S. Border Patrol agent on horseback wielding a horse rein as a whip as migrants attempt to cross the Rio Grande into the United States. “I have seen some of the footage. I don’t have the full context. I […]
A 20-year-old El Paso man had his car inspected in late August by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, before agriculture specialists found a reported 300 pounds of meat products stored away throughout the vehicle. As officers observed the meat at the Paso Del Norte Border Crossing area on Aug. 26, the car contained 31 rolls of bologna and […]
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officers working at the port of Memphis seized thousands of fake COVID-19 vaccination cards last week coming from China en route to New Orleans. The Washington Post reports federal agents intercepted a package disguised as paper greeting cards. The agency said it was the 15th such shipment that night and inside […]
A new video shows a Nicaraguan boy crying and wandering alone on a rural Texas road and asking a border agent for help. The 10-year-old was traveling with a group of migrants when he was apparently abandoned. People reports that U.S. Customs and Border Protection released footage of the incident, which happened on April 1 […]
A former Border Patrol agent is facing up to a year in prison for allegedly spraying urine all over a number of items in his supervisor’s cubicle prior to retiring last summer, the New York Post reports. Eduardo Flores, Jr., of Amherst, NY, is being accused of filling up a spray bottle with urine and squirting […]
