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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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A Kentucky man was sentenced to serve 600 months in prison for production and possession of child sexual exploitation material.U.S.
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The US Homeland Security Department published a three page rule on March 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Senate passed historic, bipartisan legislation led by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Rob Portman (R-OH), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, to set the United States Postal Service on a more sustainable financial footing...
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News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today on the Senate floor, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, delivered remarks ahead of the final Senate vote urging his Senate colleagues to support the bipartisan Postal Service Reform Act. The legislation...
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News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - This evening the Senate passed the historic, bipartisan Postal Service Reform Act led by U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, to set the United States Postal Service on a more...
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A Vista, Calif., man pleaded guilty March 4 in federal court to fraud involving false applications for unemployment benefits to California’s Employment Development Department , where he admitted to receiving more than $300,000 in fraudulent benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston Field Office deportation officers removed a noncitizen foreign fugitive and identified gang member convicted in U.S. federal court of narcotics distribution and currently wanted on kidnapping charges by law enforcement authorities in Mexico on March 1.
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced Feb. 25 the launch of a website that provides information to the public about employers or agents petitioning for H-2A employees.
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The US Homeland Security Department published a one page rule on March 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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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.