SAN DIEGO -- Defibrillators, fluids and life vests -- these are the tools Border Patrol agents will need ... off an odd assortment of life-saving equipment at the agency’s offices in Chula ...

El Paso border agents and customs officers say they have access to the gear they need to protect ... legal permanent residents and those with "essential" business on either side.

Border Patrol agent Ricardo Ruedas and his wife Alejandra have made and donated hundreds of homemade masks to workers who are deemed essential, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP.) ...

CBP's notice was scant on specifics about its plans for the gear, the cannabis news ... The assumption is that Border Patrol agents would use the equipment in smuggling cases to determine whether ...

Outdated, malfunctioning detection equipment can be worse than useless for the Border Patrol. The circumstances of U.S. Border Patrol agent Rogelio Martinez’s death this week remain murkier than ...

So U.S. Customs and Border Patrol has started using new tactics to discourage nonessential travel, and that's making it harder for those who need to cross for essential work. KPBS reporter Tania ...