U.S. Customs And Border Protection
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Recent News About U.S. Customs And Border Protection
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On February 17, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Officers at an express consignment hub in Memphis, Tennessee examined a package described in the paperwork as a high school cookbook.
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Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol (RGV) agents interdicted three migrant smuggling events with the assistance of the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) resulting in 27 arrests.
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On March 1, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Officers at an express consignment hub in Memphis, Tennessee examined a package described in the paperwork as porridge.
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US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Air and Marine Operations (AMO) and Border Patrol agents teamed up Tuesday to rescue a group of 10 undocumented migrants from Haiti left stranded by smugglers in Desecheo island.
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Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol (RGV) agents arrested 136 migrants unlawfully present in the United States in four separate events across the Rio Grande Valley. On March 7, Fort Brown Border Patrol Station agents observed a group of 86 migrants walking north from the Rio Grande in Brownsville, Texas.
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Office of Field Operations (OFO) officers at the Juarez-Lincoln Bridge seized hard narcotics that totaled over $841,000 in street value in one enforcement action over the weekend.
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U.S. Border Patrol agents from El Centro Sector rescued two undocumented individuals in the sand dunes near Yuma, Saturday afternoon.
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Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents from the Freer Station arrested a felony convicted sex offender who had attempted to cross illegally with a group of undocumented individuals near Freer, Texas.During the morning of March 6, agents from the Freer Station apprehended 14 undocumented individuals while working their assigned duties.
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seized four shipments of palm oil in Baltimore since February 11 due to information indicating that the palm oil was manufactured by forced labor, a form of modern slavery. The palm oil shipments are valued at nearly $2.5 million.
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the El Paso area ports of entry have encountered individuals attempting to smuggle fentanyl concealed internally on their bodies over the past two weeks.
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With one league in full swing, another gearing up for their draft and the other league locked out, criminals are still trying to siphon money from enthusiast’s pockets. CBP officers in Louisville recently seized 230 counterfeit Super Bowl, World Series, and NBA championship rings that may have ended up online for much more than what they are worth.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) made the official handout to the Consulate of the Dominican Republic of seven Pre-Columbian artifacts in a ceremony held last week from the Casa Blanca Museum in Old San Juan.
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Recently U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Port of Milwaukee seized an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Slot Machine Jamming Device Kit.
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Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol (RGV) agents disrupted four migrant smuggling attempts resulting in 23 arrests.
