Man Dies in Jail
A Honduran family claims in a federal complaint that U.S. Customs and Border Protection separated the parents from their 3-year-old child and sent the father to jail in Starr County, Texas, where he died.
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Feds Expand Immigrant Facilities to Handle Border Overflow
U.S. Customs and Border Protection says a new 2,500-person holding facility will open Friday in a remote corner of West Texas as the agency attempts to deal with what it calls an unprecedented influx of immigrants at the southern border.
Read moreSenate Split on How to Keep Border Jails Humane
Frustrations simmered Tuesday at the Senate Homeland Security Committee as the head of Customs and Border Patrol told lawmakers that immigrants are exploiting children to help their chances at crossing the border.
Read moreJudge Urged to Block Warrantless Tech Searches at Border
Attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union and Electronic Frontier Foundation asked a federal judge Thursday afternoon to ban the practice of border agents searching electronic devices without a warrant.
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GOP Pushes for Longer Family Detentions in Immigrant Jails
As Senate Republicans blamed a Ninth Circuit decision with the trend of adult immigrants bringing along a child to help their chance at U.S. entry, Democrats pushed back at their fix Wednesday as a bid to legalize indefinite detentions.
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DHS Watchdog Tells Congress Border Facilities Are Dangerously Overcrowded
Expounding on a report that detailed a “ticking time bomb” at detention centers on the southern border, a Department of Homeland Security watchdog Monday told Congress that overcrowding at federal facilities has reached unprecedented levels.
Read morePence Tour of Migrant Center Shows Men Crowded in Cages
Vice President Mike Pence toured two detention facilities on the Texas border Friday, including a Border Patrol station where hundreds of men were crowded in sweltering cages without cots.
Read moreFeds to End Suspicionless ID Checks on Domestic Flights
Customs and Border Patrol reached a sweeping settlement where they agree not to detain domestic flight passengers who refuse suspicionless ID checks while still on board the plane.
Read moreBorder Official Resigns Amid Uproar Over Immigrant Children
The acting head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection resigned Tuesday amid an uproar over the discovery of migrant children being held in filthy conditions at one of the agency’s stations in Texas.
Read moreLawmakers Critical of Military Presence in Border Crisis
At a hearing where the chief of U.S. Border Patrol defended the need for military involvement in addressing the immigration crisis, members of Congress pushed back Thursday on that partnership’s mounting costs and still unseen payoff.
Read moreUnited States Shuts Immigration Jail Where Teenager Died
Federal agents have temporarily closed their primary immigration jail in South Texas one day after a 16-year-old died after being diagnosed with the flu at the prison.
Read moreDebate Over Turning Back Asylum Seekers Heats Up in Federal Court
A federal judge heard arguments Friday on whether she should dismiss a case challenging Customs and Border Protection’s practice of turning away asylum seekers, with much of the discussion splitting hairs over where Mexico ends and U.S. soil begins at ports of entry.
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A 25-year veteran officer of Customs and Border Protection, Manuel Porras Salas, who worked at Los Angeles International Airport, was sentenced Thursday to 151 months in federal prison for helping to move hundreds of kilograms of cocaine, heroin and marijuana from Southern California to Chicago.
Read moreNielsen Leaving DHS After Sunday Meeting With Trump
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is leaving her post after 16 months on the job, according to a tweet by the president on Sunday.
Read moreTorture at Border
A federal judge refused to dismiss a Muslim U.S. citizen’s claim that Customs and Border Protection officers in Michigan subjected him to torture by placing him “in isolation in a small, freezing-cold holding cell with excessively bright lights for at least four hours” and denied him medical care even after he became unconscious.
Read moreButterfly Center Asks for a Halt to Border Wall Construction
The owner of a South Texas butterfly conservation center asked a federal judge to stop the government from building a border wall it says will cut off and “render useless” 70 percent of its 100-acre refuge on the Rio Grande.
Read moreCustoms Finds 70 Finches in Guyana Traveler’s Hair Rollers
Customs officials at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport say they found 70 live finches hidden inside hair rollers.
Read moreHonduran Migrants Sue Trump Over Tightened Asylum Policy
Attorneys representing a small group of migrants travelling on foot toward the United States in search of asylum sued President Donald Trump Thursday night, claiming his promise to stop the caravan with military force is a violation of the U.S. Constitution.
Read moreBorder Patrol Strangler
Supervisory U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer Harvey Booker, 70, of San Diego was criminally charged with strangling a traveler at a point of entry; he faces 10 years in prison if convicted of Deprivation of Rights Under Color of law, federal prosecutors said.
Read moreCommittee Examines Border Patrol’s Phone Searches
Warrantless cellphone searches by Customs and Border Patrol agents at the northern and southern borders of the United States have exploded a long-brewing constitutional crisis, a panel of legal experts told a Senate Homeland Security subcommittee Wednesday.
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