US Customs and Border Protection

This Is What 25 Pounds Of Cocaine Looks Like

Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Red Hook Brooklyn, Red Hook Container Terminal, Cocaine Bust, Ny News, New York News, Jfk International Airport, Red Hook, Cocaine, US-Customs-and-Border-Protection, Video, New York News

Earlier this month, officials inspecting a shipping container at the Red Hook Container Terminal discovered a staggering 24.6 pounds of cocaine, The N...

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Elise Foley

Immigrants Near U.S.-Canada Border Fear Racial Profiling

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Video, Cbp, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Dick Durbin, Trayvon Martin, Secure Communities, Immigration, Immigrants, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Ice, Border Patrol, CBP Racial Profiling, Racial Profiling, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Immigrants and minorities who live near the U.S. northern border are fearful of Customs and Border Protection agents, accusing them of r...

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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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Father Denied Entry To U.S. From Mexico To Bury Son

AP | MICHAEL RUBINKAM | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Video, Mexico, Immigration, Immigrants, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Mexican, Fidelmar "Fidel" Merlos-Lopez, Immigrant, Mexican National, Latino Voices News

ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- A Mexican national said he has been barred from entering the United States to bury his 10-year-old son, a U.S. citizen who died Tues...

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Elise Foley

New Customs Rule Would Treat Same-Sex Couples As Families

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Customs Forms, Gay Families, Video, Gay Rights, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration proposed on Tuesday to recognize same-sex couples as families on customs forms, a small but significant step, s...

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LOOK: Do These Heroin Pellets Make My Stomach Look Fat?

Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Video, Dumb Crime, Nigeria Drug Smuggling, Internal Drug Smuggling, Heroin, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency, Slidepollajax, Nigerian Woman Heroin, Drug Smuggling, Weird News News

Want to get noticed for a rock-solid stomach? Try ingesting almost five pounds of heroin pellets. During a patdown, customs agents spotted a Niger...

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Heroic Strangers Rescue Car Accident Victim

Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Video, Car Accident Carlos Rivera Hernandez, Desert Center Car Accident, California Highway Patrol, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Heroic Strangers, Carlos Rivera Hernandez Killed, Interstate 10 Car Accident, Los Angeles News

Yesterday morning, a group of devoted and determined passers-by lifted an over-turned pick up truck to free a female victim from beneath the cab of th...

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Tropical Intrigue As Dominican Man Caught Smuggling Cubans Into Puerto Rico

DominicanToday.com | Posted 11.03.2011

Read More: Braulio Santana Beltre, Puerto Rico, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Cuba, Cuban Immigrants, Illegal Immigration, Latino Voices News

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico.- A federal grand jury indicted Braulio Santana-Beltre, 19, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, arrested by US Customs and Bord...

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U.S. Border Protection Officer Charged With Rape

AP | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Santa Ana Rape, Border Officer Rape, Miguel Lerma Jr., US-Customs-and-Border-Protection, Los Angeles News

WESTMINSTER, Calif. — A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer has been charged with rape in an attack in Southern California that authoriti...

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Shooting Blanks: The Ailing Fight Against Gun Trafficking

The Center for Public Integrity | John Solomon, David Heath, Ricardo Sandoval Palos | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, US Customs, New Mexico, Center for Public Integrity, Firearms, Atf, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Guns, Politics News

On Jan. 14, 2010, federal border patrol agents stopped two men driving a car through the border-crossing town of Columbus, New Mexico. Inside the vehi...

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Lucia Graves

Arizona Probation Officer Fired For Supporting Marijuana Legalization

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drug Laws, Joseph McNamara, Border Patrol Agents, Drug War, Border Patrol Drugs, Terry Nelson, Leap, Drug Legalization, Arizona, American Civil Liberities Union, Pot, War on Drugs, Arizona Probation Officer, Cannibus, Politics News, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Meg Whitman, Prop 19, Drug Wars, Joe Miller, Bryan Gonzalez, Border Patrol, Marijuana Legalization, Jonathan Wender, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, Aclu, California-Marijuana-Legalization, Marijuana, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Less than two months after signing a letter calling for the legalization, taxation, and regulation of marijuana, Joe Miller was terminat...

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Lucia Graves

Border Patrol Agent Fired For Views On Drug Legalization Files Lawsuit

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California-Marijuana-Legalization, Prop 19, Border Patrol Drugs, Border Patrol Agents, Terry Nelson, Bryan Gonzalez, Jonathan Wender, Drug War, Marijuana Legalization, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Border Patrol, Drug Legalization, Drug Laws, Leap, War on Drugs, Marijuana, Politics News

In September of 2009, border patrol agent Bryan Gonzalez was fired for expressing his views on drug legalization to a fellow agent. Now, the American ...

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Border Chief: Immigration Reform Requires 'Political Leadership'

AP | ELLIOT SPAGAT | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Immigration Reform, Immigration, Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Alan Bersin, Alan Bersin Immigration Reform, Alan Bersin Immigration, Politics News

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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Feds Seize $1.2M Of Chinese Knockoff Electronics At O'Hare

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: O'Hare, Cbp, Chinese Knockoffs, Ord, Customs, O'Hare Airport, Chicago, Illinois, US Customs and Border Protection, Knockoff Electronics, Chicago News

Federal agents at O'Hare Airport intercepted 25 cartons of counterfeit electronics coming in from China and bound for Florida. An estimated $1.2 milli...

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316,000 Bongs, Disguised As Christmas Ornaments, Seized By Customs Agents In LA

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bong, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Marijuana, Drug Paraphernalia, China, Business News

LOS ANGELES — Customs officials say they got a surprise when they found 316,000 glass bongs disguised as Christmas ornaments at the Los Angeles harb...

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US Border Authorities Detain German Political Leader and Undermine American Brand

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Passports, Dulles International Airport, Turkey, Pia Castro, Germany, Cem Oezdemir, Detention, Visas, Immigration, US-Customs-and-Border-Protection, Politics News
Steve Clemons

I think that every American should feel embarrassed by the treatment important guests of the United States received this past week at the hands of US Customs and Border Protection officials.

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