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U.S. Border Patrol agents are once again sounding the alarm about miles of border being left wide open and unsecured. Breitbart Texas exclusively obtained a document showing a Havre Sector Border Patrol manager knowingly issuing orders to leave 40 miles of border open and unpatrolled. Obama holdovers in the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency are continuing with the same careless disregard in the Trump Administration that they did under former resident Obama, according to Border Patrol agents. Breitbart Texas has the specific order that was given to the agents signed by the Obama-holdover manager. The order demands that agents...

A submarine-like vessel filled with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of cocaine was seized off the Guatemalan coast, U.S. officials said. Four suspected smugglers were operating the self-propelled, semi-submersible vessel when it was located and seized on Sunday evening by officials from the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, U.S. Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard, the Border Patrol said in a news release Wednesday. When the suspects realized they had been spotted by drug-surveillance aircraft patrolling the eastern Pacific, they scuttled the vessel but were unable to escape. Coast Guard officials, guided by the reconnaissance plane, intercepted the vessel...

Mexican and U.S. customs officials signed an agreement Monday aimed at fighting contraband and terrorism while streamlining trade across the border. The agreement sets up four working groups to encourage cooperation between agencies on both sides of the border, which sees more than $320 billion in trade cross each year, said Mexico Customs Administrator Juan Jose Bravo. U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Ralph Basham said the agreement represents a mutual desire of the United States and Mexico to protect their people and economies. Basham said the relationship with Mexico is crucial to the U.S. customs and border patrol agency's...

LOS ANGELES -- The Customs and Border Protection computer glitch that stranded more than 20,000 inbound international travelers at Los Angeles International Airport over the weekend recurred overnight, affecting about 1,700 inbound international passengers between 11:50 p.m. Sunday and 1:15 a.m. Monday, KNBC reported. More than 20,000 inbound international travelers were stranded over the weekend as a result of a computer crash that began Saturday afternoon. The computer system helps officials identify people who have been placed on a no-fly list and who are denied entry into the United States as security risks. KNBC's Jinah Kim said many of the...

FALFURRIAS, Texas - Federal agents at an inland immigration checkpoint found 50 illegal immigrants locked inside a tractor trailer, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Wednesday. None of the immigrants required medical attention after they were found Tuesday, though agents said the trailer was not air-conditioned and many were sweating. All were being processed for deportation. The driver and passenger in the truck's cab were arrested and charged with alien smuggling. Their identities were withheld pending further investigation.

TUCSON, Ariz. - Two weeks on the job, the new head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Tuesday he does not favor building a huge wall along the Mexican border. "I don't support, I don't believe the administration supports a wall," Commissioner W. Ralph Basham said in Tucson, where he met with patrol officials and agents before embarking on a tour across the Arizona desert. Asked about proposals in Senate- and House-approved immigration measures to build security walls 380 or 700 miles long, respectively, Basham said, "It doesn't make sense, it's not practical." As Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano put...

A Camden, New Jersey corporation and its top officer have admitted illegally exporting Sparrow Missile parts to China after obtaining the parts as military surplus items from the U.S. Department of Defense and, instead of smelting them as required, sold them to a Chinese-owned company for export to China. Yesterday, State Metal Industries, Inc. (SMI), a Camden smelting facility specializing in the purchase of scrap metal and the production and sale of aluminum ingots, or bars from that scrap metal, along with its Vice President of Purchasing, Michael S. Dorfman, 44, of Richboro, Pa., each entered guilty pleas before U.S....

U.S.-Mexico Border Crossing Closed After Shooting The vehicle was under surveillance for migrant smuggling. (AP) SAN DIEGO A busy U.S-Mexico border crossing was shut down Thursday after federal authorities shot and killed the driver of a car headed for Mexico, officials said. The shooting occurred on southbound Interstate 5 around 3:30 p.m. about 50 feet north of the San Ysidro Port of Entry, the world's busiest border crossing, which links Tijuana, Mexico with San Diego. Officials with U.S. Customs and Border Protection were attempting to stop the vehicle, which was under surveillance for suspected migrant smuggling. The driver, who was...

Airport baggage screeners found a human head with teeth, hair and skin in the luggage of a woman who said she intended to ward off evil spirits with it, authorities said Friday. Myrlene Severe, 30, a Haitian-born permanent U.S. resident, was charged Friday with smuggling a human head into the U.S. without proper documentation. Customs and Border Protection officials found the head Thursday, after Severe arrived at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on a Lynx International Airlines flight from Cap Haitien, Haiti, said Barbara Gonzalez, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Miami. "It still had teeth, hair and...

Desk Jockeys vs. Border Drones The President wants it to happen. The guys on the ground want it to happen. And their bosses in DC want it to happen. But that doesn't mean the bureaucrats are going to let unmanned spy planes start patrolling the southern border. In a speech in El Paso earlier this week, President Bush said he wanted more cash for border patrol technologies, including drones. Border patrol agents -- at least the ones I visited -- thought the robo-planes did a world of good during, when they briefly had them. (And, with millions illegally entering the...

U.S. Border Patrol officers are being shifted away from their posts guarding the U.S.-Mexico border to aid in the Katrina Hurricane disaster, leaving the country vulnerable to illegals and terrorists attempting to enter the U.S., NewsMax has learned. The Bush administration ordered the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the federal agency charged with securing the border, to provide manpower, assets, and humanitarian support to Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts, which has some border state residents nervous that the thin red line of protection from the plague of illegals, drug smugglers and gang members will be stretched even thinner. CBP is...

FRONT ROYAL, Virginia (Reuters) - U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Thursday paid tribute to one of America's most useful weapons in the war on terrorism -- the nose of a well-trained dog. Chertoff presided over a graduation ceremony for 10 dogs and their trainers, handing out badges on dog collars at the Customs and Border Protection Canine Enforcement Training Center. After having completed a 13-week program, the dogs will be used to sniff out bombs, drugs and people trying to sneak into the country. One member of the graduating class, Slick, a German shepherd paired with handler Wilfredo...

A man gave up $123,850 and the 1999 Ford Windstar van he was driving to the Cleveland County Interstate Criminal Enforcement Team Thursday afternoon. The enforcement team, made up of regular sheriff's deputies who patrol the county's highways and I-85, pull over speeders and others violating traffic laws. But, in the midst of these regular pullovers, they're trained to spot suspicious items in order to find contraband. In the case of Thursday's incident, officers pulled over the southbound van on a routine traffic stop on I-85 near mile marker 2 and found a hidden compartment with the money in it,...

Washington, D.C. — U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Robert C. Bonner is pleased to announce that nine Labrador retriever puppies were born on Monday, May 23, at the CBP Canine Enforcement Training Center...[snip]...If you are interested in being a foster parent for these or future puppies consult the web site for additional information at www.cbp.gov....[snip]... "These nine Labrador retriever puppies are CBP’s next generation of detector dogs. The CBP breeding program enables us to augment our detector dog force and we expect another litter of puppies to be born in the coming weeks. Currently, the breeding program has...

The U.S. Border Patrol needs thousands more agents and is considering how to effectively use volunteer citizen patrols, a senior homeland security official told House lawmakers Thursday. "We need more Border Patrol agents, there's no question about that," Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Robert Bonner told members of the House Government Reform Committee. CBP is in charge of the Border Patrol.

...A van set off an alert yesterday when it passed through a recently installed radiation portal monitor at the Santa Teresa port of entry. US Customs and Border Protection officers say they found 49 baggies of soil from Mexico hidden in the door panels...

On a Typical Day, U.S. Customs and Border Protection... Processes more than: 1.1 million passengers and pedestrians, including 724,192 aliens 64,432 truck, rail, and sea containers 2,639 aircraft 365,079 vehicles 75,734 merchandise entries, and collected $74 million in revenue Executes more than: 135 arrests at ports of entry 3,179 arrests between ports of entry Seizes an average of: 2,313 pounds of narcotics in 131 narcotic seizures at our ports of entry 3,634 pounds of narcotics in 24 seizures between our ports of entry $205,576 in currency; 193 firearms; and $1.9 million in merchandise at our ports of entry 49 vehicles...

US Customs and Border Protection officers seized over 100 tons of narcotics and apprehended more than 69,000 immigration violators at Southern California ports of entry during federal fiscal year 2004 that ended September 30. The 14,000-member National Association of Chiefs of Police reviewed the achievements of the CBP and reported them to its membership, which includes police chiefs, commanding officers and directors of security throughout the nation. CBP was formed in March 2003 under the Department of Homeland Security, unifying the operations of Customs, Immigration and Agricultural inspectors and the Border Patrol working at and between the ports of entry....

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is providing key components of the overall security scheme at Super Bowl XXXIX being held in Jacksonville, Florida on February 6. In coordination with federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, assets and personnel from CBP’s Offices of Field Operations (OFO), Air and Marine Operations (AMO), and Border Patrol (OBP) will be in place to secure the air, land and sea around the stadium and assist with securing entrances to the stadium. Coordinating efforts of air and marine assets, personnel from AMO will be patrolling the skies above Jacksonville and will lead the effort...

<p>WASHINGTON -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, along with Border Patrol agents, are on the ground in Iraq to help secure that country's war-torn borders prior to tomorrow's national elections, CBP officials said yesterday.</p> <p>CBP spokeswoman Kristi M. Clemens said the deployment team will bolster current border security efforts, providing support and additional training for Iraqi border police -- which will continue beyond the elections -- in an effort to keep saboteurs, terrorists and armaments from crossing into or out of the country.</p>