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Customs And Border Protection Gets New Leader

AP | Posted 03.23.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- A government agency responsible for securing the border and facilitating trade and travel is getting a new acting commissioner. Customs...

Matt Sledge

Border Patrol Drones May Soon Wiretap

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 03.01.2013 | Politics

NEW YORK -- Newly released documents show the Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection agency is preparing to deploy drones alo...

NYT: Menendez Discouraged Giving Port Security Equipment To Dominicans

The New York Times | ERIC LIPTON and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM | Posted 02.11.2013 | Politics

Senator Robert Menendez sought to discourage any plan by the United States government to donate port security equipment to the Dominican Republic, cit...

Why Was Emma Watson Stopped At Passport Control At JFK Airport?

Posted 01.08.2013 | Celebrity

Emma Watson may be a famous actress and model, but that doesn't mean the fresh-faced "Harry Potter" starlet isn't sometimes hassled by airport staff. ...

Elise Foley

Immigration Enforcement Costlier Than FBI, Drug Enforcement, Guns Combined

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 01.07.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The United States spends more money on immigration enforcement -- nearly $18 billion in the 2012 fiscal year -- than on its other law en...

Few Arrested by Homeland Security Watchdog Are Employees

Andrew Becker | Posted 11.18.2012 | Politics
Andrew Becker

The watchdog agency that polices the Homeland Security Department for waste, fraud and abuse may have given the wrong impression on the extent of crimes committed by immigration officers, border agents and other employees in a recent summary report of its accomplishments.

Elise Foley

House Republicans Make Puzzling Accusation

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 08.24.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The House Judiciary Committee unleashed its latest attack Friday on the Obama administration for its immigration enforcement: a claim th...

DHS Watchdog: Anti-corruption Efforts Not 'A Perfect Marriage'

Andrew Becker | Posted 10.02.2012 | Politics
Andrew Becker

The top watchdog for the Homeland Security Department told a House oversight panel Wednesday that turf battles over internal corruption investigations have subsided and his agency is not backlogged with employee misconduct cases, but he deflected questions about an ongoing criminal investigation of a Texas branch office.

Cristina Costantini

More Border Patrol Abuses Unearthed

HuffingtonPost.com | Cristina Costantini | Posted 07.23.2012 | Latino Voices

The "basic values" of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency include, "professionalism, honor, integrity, [and] respect for human life." Accor...

House Subcommittee Plans Hearing to Examine Homeland Security watchdog

Andrew Becker | Posted 09.19.2012 | Politics
Andrew Becker

A U.S. House subcommittee plans to hold a hearing next month to examine the Department of Homeland Security's troubled watchdog office, according to letters sent to prospective witnesses last week.

Families Of Two U.S. Immigration Agents Shot In Mexico Seek Answers

AP | CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN | Posted 06.30.2012 | Latino Voices

BROWNSVILLE, Texas -- The families of two U.S. immigration agents shot more than a year ago on a Mexican highway renewed their demand Friday that the ...

Stowaways!

AP | SAMANTHA HENRY | Posted 08.27.2012 | New York

NEWARK, N.J. — Dock workers rushed to unload stacked containers from a cargo ship that arrived in New Jersey from the Middle East on Wednesday a...

At U.S. Border, Expensive Drones Generate Lots of Buzz, Few Results

Andrew Becker | Posted 08.18.2012 | Politics
Andrew Becker

A pilotless aircraft may have awed the failed migrants, but such success stories about U.S. Customs and Border Protection's quarter-billion-dollar drone program come in short supply, according to a Homeland Security Department inspector general's report released Monday.

Cristina Costantini

U.S. Citizen Shot By Border Patrol, Family Seeks Justice

HuffingtonPost.com | Cristina Costantini | Posted 06.11.2012 | Latino Voices

A 19-year-old U.S. citizen, Carlos Lamadrid, was shot in the back three times by a U.S. Border Patrol agent while fleeing across the southern border i...

Will The GOP Ever Invest In the Infrastructure for Legal Immigration?

Kristian Ramos | Posted 08.08.2012 | Latino Voices
Kristian Ramos

With virtually no chance of anything immigration related passing in the House or Senate, investment in the legal flow of commerce and people at our border is a great compromise on legislative action in an election year.

Cristina Costantini

Texas Woman Fights To Prove U.S. Citizenship

HuffingtonPost.com | Cristina Costantini | Posted 08.06.2012 | Latino Voices

Brenda Vazquez, a 29-year-old school teacher, used to cross the border bridge between Matamoros, Mexico, and Brownsville, Texas, a few times each week...

New Details Emerge As Ex-Border Patrol Brothers Fight Corruption Charges

Andrew Becker | Posted 07.31.2012 | Crime
Andrew Becker

The Villarreal brothers are just two of a handful of Customs and Border Protection employees in Southern California charged with corruption-related crimes in recent years to contest prosecution rather than accept a plea agreement.

Border Patrol Gets First New Strategy In 8 Years

AP | ELLIOT SPAGAT | Posted 07.08.2012 | Latino Voices

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...

Elise Foley

Perry Claims Obama Encourages Unauthorized Immigration By Minors

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.08.2012 | Politics

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

4 Muslims File Harassment Lawsuit Against FBI, Border Patrol

AP | ED WHITE | Posted 06.13.2012 | Detroit

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

Border Patrol Finds Woman Hidden In Wall Of Van

Posted 03.12.2012 | Latino Voices

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...

Andrea Stone

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 03.05.2012 | Politics

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

Andrea Stone

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 03.12.2012 | Politics

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...

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

Posted 02.21.2012 | Los Angeles

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...

Alice Hines

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Alice Hines | Posted 02.10.2012 | Business

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...