News and reports from the Department of Homeland Security.

The US Homeland Security Department published a one page rule on March 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector Border Patrol agents arrested four migrants with criminal history.On March 4, 2022, RGV agents arrested 26 migrants near Hidalgo, Texas.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Air and Marine Operations (AMO) extracted a hiker suffering a heat emergency in Sabino Canyon over the weekend.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Air and Marine Operations, the U.S. Border Patrol, Office of Field Operations, along with federal, state, and local law enforcement partners responded simultaneously to a maritime smuggling event on Sunday afternoon in Key Largo, Florida, where a vessel containing 356 Haitian migrants ran aground several hundred yards offshore.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agriculture Specialists assigned to the Bridge of the Americas and Santa Teresa border crossings seized 230 pounds of prohibited pork bologna on two separate unrelated incidents in recent days.

A Mexican national was sentenced Tuesday to more than two years in prison for illegally transporting an unaccompanied child from Mexico.U.S.

On Thursday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) officially opened a permanent HSI office at the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, expanding HSI’s international presence around the world.

An investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Corpus Christi and the Corpus Christi Police Department led to a southeast Texas man being ordered to serve the rest of his life in federal prison Tuesday following convictions for several child exploitation-related offenses including foreign travel to engage in illicit sexual conduct with three minors.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) repatriated seven stolen artifacts, to include five gold ingots, to France, Wednesday.

Justin Treanton, age 37, of Bettendorf, was sentenced on Monday, to 30 years in federal prison for the production of child pornography and 20 years in prison for the possession of child pornography, with the sentences run consecutively for a total of 50 years in federal prison following a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), law enforcement partner investigation.

Two men plead guilty Wednesday to kidnapping and holding victims at ransom for three days, following an investigation led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) San Antonio Field Office, with assistance from the Harlingen Field Office, removed a noncitizen foreign fugitive Wednesday who is wanted for fraud by the government of Mexico.

A man who possessed, with the intent to distribute, methamphetamine was convicted by a jury on February 25, 2022, after a 4-day trial in federal court in Sioux City following a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), joint law enforcement partner, investigation.

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Francisco “Frank” B. Burrola, who has nearly 30 years of federal law enforcement experience – 16 of those years on the Southwest Border - was recently selected special agent in charge (SAC) of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in El Paso.