Customs and Border Protection

Border Patrol Gets First New Strategy In 8 Years

AP | ELLIOT SPAGAT | Posted 05.08.2012

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SAN DIEGO — With border crossings at a 40-year low, the U.S. Border Patrol announced a new strategy Tuesday that targets repeat crossers and tri...

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Perry Claims Obama Encourages Unauthorized Immigration By Minors

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.08.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry accused the Obama administration last week of skirting its immigration enforcement duties to the point of encourag...

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4 Muslims File Harassment Lawsuit Against FBI, Border Patrol

AP | ED WHITE | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Detroit Muslims, Council on American Islamic Relations, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Video, Muslim Harassment Lawsuit, Profiling, Cair, CAIR Michigan, Fbi, Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, CAIR MI, Border Patrol Muslim Harassment Lawsuit, FBI Muslim Harassment Lawsuit, Detroit News

DETROIT -- Some Detroit-area Muslims have been held at gunpoint, handcuffed and repeatedly harassed about their religion when returning to the U.S. fr...

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Border Patrol Finds Woman Hidden In Wall Of Van

Posted 03.12.2012

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Earlier this week, border patrol agents discovered a Mexican woman attempting to enter the country illegally by hiding in the paneling of a 1993 Dodge...

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TSA Expands Pre-Check Program To Military Personnel At Reagan National Airport

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 03.05.2012

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WASHINGTON -- U.S. military personnel traveling out of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport will now be able to skip long security lines as part ...

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No Questions Asked, Or How I Became A 'Trusted Traveler'

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 03.12.2012

Last week, just days after this story was posted and after informing the chief spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security that the name on my G...

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SEIZED AT LAX: Pig Placenta, Deer Antlers & Bird Nests

Posted 02.21.2012

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Guns, drugs and your face wash aren't the only things confiscated daily at LAX. The airport regularly seizes food and sometimes specialty items such a...

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U.S. Clamps Down On 'Sex In The City' Counterfeit Perfumes

HuffingtonPost.com | Alice Hines | Posted 02.10.2012

Read More: Video, Seizures, Sex and the City Perfume, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Sex in the City Perfume, Hbo, Counterfeit, Sex and the City, Customs and Border Protection, Fake Makeup, Business News

The ladies of "Sex and the City" are still cool enough for China's massive counterfeit market. Counterfeit perfume seizures by the U.S. Customs an...

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Time For Him To Go: Temporary Customs And Border Commissioner Resigns

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 12.22.2011

Read More: Customs and Border Protection, Immigration, Senate, Video, Senate Confirmation, Don Berwick, Alan Bersin, Recess Appointments, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Time's up for the head of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, who announced Thursday he is stepping down at the end of the year when...

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Vietnam-Era Incendiary Device Discovered In Package At O'Hare

Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Customs and Border Protection, Incendiary Advice, Vietnam Era Flare, O'hare Explosive, O'hare Package, Vietnam Incendiary Advice, O'Hare Airport, Chicago News

Chicago Customs and Border Protection officers last week discovered a live military incendiary device dated to be from the Vietnam era in a Japan-boun...

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House Bill Would Authorize Czar To Watch Islamist Extremists But Not Other Domestic Terrorists

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 12.10.2011

WASHINGTON -- A House bill set for markup on Wednesday would give protection against civil lawsuits to those who report suspicious activity, designate...

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A Few Frequent Flyers To Get New Perk Under TSA Expedited Screening Program

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 11.26.2011

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WASHINGTON -- A few lucky frequent flyers will start whizzing through airport checkpoints next week under a pilot program that federal security offici...

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An Immigrant Mother's Struggle To Reunite With Her Unaccompanied Minor Son

Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Immigration Reform, Train of Death, Mexico, La Bestia, Immigration, Guatemala, Customs and Border Protection, Arizona, Ice, Latino Voices News

Lilian Cortez held a single red rose as she nervously waited at Los Angeles International airport waiting to see her son. She hadn't seen him since sh...

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Dangerous Beetle Intercepted At O'Hare

Posted 10.24.2011

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A beetle ranked among "one of the top 100 most feared pests in the world" was recently found in a bag of rice and intercepted at the O'Hare Airport be...

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Customs And Border Protection Confiscates Iguana Meat Near San Diego

The Huffington Post | Eliza Fisher | Posted 08.15.2011

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The US Customs and Border Protection released a statement today announcing that its officers confiscated 159 pounds of smuggled iguana meat at the bo...

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For Little Emily, the Story Has Not Yet Ended

David Sperling | Posted 06.05.2011

Read More: Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Deportations, Deportation, Emily Ruiz, Media Failure, Media News

Why didn't the media try to resolve the conflicting accounts in the case of Emily Ruiz's deportation? Why doesn't anyone want to follow up and determine who is telling the truth?

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Emily Samantha Ruiz, Girl Subjected to De Facto Deportation, Gets a Fitting Toy for Ride Home (Video)

Ted Hesson | Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Customs and Border Protection, Guatemala, Vi, Emily Samantha Ruiz, Deportation, Emily Ruiz, New York News

On March 28, I flew to Guatemala City to meet with Emily Samantha Ruiz as she prepared to return home. Despite being a US citizen, Emily was subjected to de facto deportation on March 11.

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4-Year-Old Deported By Feds Is Coming Home

Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Illegal Immigrants, Citizenship, Undocumented Immigrants, Department of Homeland Security, Dhs, Customs and Border Protection, Ny News, Deportation, Illegal Immigration, Citizen, Emily Ruiz, 4-Year-Old Deported, Undocumented Immigration, Birthright Citizenship, New York News

The 4-year-old US citizen who was de facto deported by Customs and Border Protection is coming back to America, in style. "Immigration treated her li...

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Feds Send 4-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Back To Guatemala

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- A 4-year-old girl born in New York was detained by immigration officials and then sent back to Guatemala, separating her from her parent...

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Border Patrol Sees Spike In Suicides

AP | PAUL J. WEBER | Posted 05.25.2011

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FORT HANCOCK, Texas — After a bad day on the job as a Border Patrol agent, Eddie DeLaCruz went home and began discussing with his wife how to ce...

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Border Chief: Immigration Reform Requires 'Political Leadership'

AP | ELLIOT SPAGAT | Posted 05.25.2011

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SAN DIEGO — Americans agree on a need to overhaul immigration laws but lack consensus on what should be done, the head of the Customs and Border...

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Restoring the Fourth Amendment: How We the People Can Win Over Washington

Shahid Buttar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Civil Liberties, First Amendment, Congress, War on Terror, Ethnic Profiling, Warrantless Surveillance, Progressives, George W. Bush, President Obama, Fbi, Surveillance, Obama Administration, Obama, U.S. Constitution, Cointelpro, Civil Rights, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Arizona Immigration Law, Constitution, Dhs, Fourth Amendment, Bill of Rights Defense Committee, Profiling, Libertarian, Transpartisan, Barack Obama, Racial Profiling, Government Surveillance, Patriot Act, Bush Administration, Counterterrorism, Customs and Border Protection, Libertarians, Politics News

With 2010 finding our government institutions tone deaf and disengaged on addressing our mounting constitutional crises, there have been few riper times for a transpartisan political offensive.

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U.S.-Mexico Border Safety: Area Is One Of Safest Parts Of America

AP | MARTHA MENDOZA | Posted 05.25.2011

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MEXICO CITY (Associated Press) — It's one of the safest parts of America, and it's getting safer. It's the U.S.-Mexico border, and even as poli...

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TSA, Customs Agencies Still Lack Permanent Leaders Appointed By Obama

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Two federal agencies charged with keeping potential terrorists off airplanes and out of the country have been without their top lea...

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White Rivers, Brown Skin, and Black Deeds: Into the Rabbit Hole of Border Detentions and Racial Profiling

Hamdan Azhar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Muslims, BORDER ISSUES, Racial Profiling, Canada, Homeland Security, Aclu, Civil Liberties, National Security, Customs and Border Protection, Politics News

The evil of profiling is that it dehumanizes its victims, stripping them of their individuality. The border officials didn't see me as a writer or as a wide-eyed student in the grip of wanderlust.

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