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At the northern border, Border Patrol agents continue to arrest Iranians and weapons traffickers and are helping seize record amounts of fentanyl.
The massive funding bill signed into law this month by Trump earmarks about $170 billion for border and immigration enforcement, including tens of billions for new
Bart Conrad Yager was a Border Patrol agent in Willcox. Customs and Border Protection says its internal investigative wing arrested him last month based on allegations of child sex trafficking, fraud and pandering — a legal term for the act of encouraging someone to engage in prostitution.
New York State Attorney General Letitia James tells CNN’s Brianna Keilar the state’s policy is to “cooperate with ICE agents” looking for individuals with criminal convictions but asserts that the “kidnapping of innocent individuals” by the government agents is also taking place.
A federal judge in Vermont has refused to delay the decision on whether a woman charged in the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent will face the death penalty
Border agents at LAX airport in Los Angeles confiscated 300 pounds of drugs hidden in a peculiar location, reported The New York Post. On Monday, July 21, agents with the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) office seized 300 pounds of methamphetamine hidden within a box of solar panels.
Border enforcement with horses has also made headlines in recent years, including agents on horseback confronting a group of Haitian migrants on the Rio Grande in Texas, as well as earlier this month as part of a recent attempted immigration sweep at Los Angeles’ MacArthur Park.
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