U.S. Customs And Border Protection
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Recent News About U.S. Customs And Border Protection
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection today released agency statistics for Fiscal Year 2021 covering all major areas of operations, including international travel and trade, forced labor enforcement, drug seizures, and national border encounter statistics.
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Washington Dulles International Airport arrested two men in one week who were each wanted on felony child sex assault and molestation charges.
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is taking over various border barrier projects that were previously run by the Department of Defense.
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) expanded the use of biometric facial comparison technology Dec. 15 to the border crossings at the ports of Laurier, Metaline Falls, Ferry, Boundary, and Frontier as part of CBP’s land border innovation efforts.
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Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents interdicted three migrant smuggling events that resulted in 34 arrests.
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Rio Grande Valley Sector agents arrested two gang members over the holiday weekend.
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Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol (RGV) agents and local law enforcement partners work together to disrupt dangerous human smuggling efforts.
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Within the span of 24 hours, Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents along with local law enforcement partners shut down two stash houses in Laredo, Texas .
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El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents arrested two United States citizens for their attempts to smuggle illegal narcotics through an immigration checkpoint Saturday evening. At approximately 7:30 p.m., a black 2006 Mazda 6 station wagon approached the Highway 86 checkpoint.
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El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents arrested two United States citizens accused of smuggling illegal narcotics early Monday morning.
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U.S. Border Patrol agents from El Centro Sector rescued an undocumented individual in the Jacumba Wilderness region near Ocotillo Tuesday evening.
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Texas– Big Bend Sector Border Patrol agents arrested three United States Citizens at the Sierra Blanca Border Patrol Checkpoint on Tuesday for narcotics smuggling.
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U.S. Border Patrol Agents discovered multiple stash houses in the El Paso Sector, leading to the apprehension of several migrants and United States Citizens in the last five days.
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Rio Grande Valley Sector agents conducting processing duties identify four gang members in a single day.On Dec. 21, McAllen Border Patrol Station (MCS) agents working near Mission, arrested a Salvadoran national illegally present in the United States.
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Air and Marine Operations is close to finalizing the upgrading and modernizing of its marine vessel fleet by accepting delivery on the final 41-Foot SAFE Boat Coastal Interceptor Vessel. AMO contractually accepted its final CIV on Dec. 15. The vessel will arrive at AMO’s San Diego Air and Marine Branch in early 2022.
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Effective December 20, 2021, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel at all U.S. ports of entry will detain disposable gloves produced in Malaysia by Brightway Holdings Sdn Bhd, Laglove (M) Sdn Bhd, and Biopro (M) Sdn Bhd (collectively, Brightway Group).
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Chris Magnus will become the fifth commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) as he was recently sworn in by Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas.
