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The acting deputy chief of the US Border Patrol, ... Border Patrol’s second in command suspended for alleged misconduct. Priscilla Alvarez, CNN. February 15, 2024 at 11:09 PM.
The then-U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer later allowed another vehicle to enter the country with 200 pounds of drugs, prosecutors said. Text messages show the officer received $17,000 ...
Also in May, a former Border Patrol agent was sentenced to 18 months in prison for accepting a $5,000 bribe to provide immigration paperwork to illegal border crossers, according to another complaint.
Former U.S. Border Patrol Agent Jose Compean December 2020 pardon granted by Donald Trump. José Alonso Compeán (born 1976) is a former United States Border Patrol Agent, convicted of shooting (wounding) a fleeing, illegal alien drug smuggler on the United States–Mexico border near El Paso, Texas, on February 17, 2005, and of covering up the shooting: i.e. "obstructing justice by willfully ...
The Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) first reported that Gómez González, who was described as petite and timid, and the rest of the group had attacked the officer with blunt objects and resisted arrest, and that he had shot in self-defense. [1] [2] [5] Marta Martinez, a woman who lived nearby, heard the shot and ran outside. [5]
The tension at the San Diego-Mexico border comes just two months after the Sinaloa Cartel issued an order for its members to shoot at Border Patrol officers in western Texas for the arrest of ...
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers, U.S. Border Patrol agents, U.S. Homeland Security Investigations Special Agents, and U.S. Coast Guard officers (E4 grade and above) who are all customs officers (those tasked with enforcing Title 19 of the United States Code) with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, are permitted to ...
The figures announced Wednesday by the Department of Homeland Security show that the Border Patrol's average daily arrests over a seven-day period have fallen below 2,400, down more than 40% from ...