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Critics ripped Axios on Sunday after the outlet deleted a tweet referring to Border Patrol agents as "whipping at" Haitian migrants attempting to cross from Mexico into the U.S. at the Southern border. "We deleted a previous tweet that referred to Border Patrol agents as whipping at Haitian migrants. The story has been updated to include comments from some journalists on the border who did not see whipping occur," Axios tweeted, referring to a weekend story it published about Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott vowing to hire the agents seen on horseback in viral photos that were taken out of...

Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway claimed that President Donald Trump's warnings of violent migrants making their way toward the U.S. were vindicated over the weekend by clashes at the Mexican border, .....[snip] "Everything that was predicted by the president and Secretary Nielsen and homeland security and others has come true," Conway told Fox News' "Fox & Friends" on Tuesday. "There are violent elements in this caravan. The mainstream media only wants you to see the children, the families. They're not telling you that most of the caravan are males traveling by themselves." The president's warnings about migrants making their...

Donald Trump has ordered the military to be on alert over a US-bound migrant caravan as he declared a national emergency. Referring to the caravan from Honduras, the president tweeted: "Sadly, it looks like Mexico's Police and Military are unable to stop the Caravan heading to the Southern Border of the United States. "I have alerted Border patrol and Military that this is a National Emergency." He added that the US would begin "cutting off, or substantially reducing aid" to three Central American countries.

(CNN)A US Border Patrol agent who authorities are calling a serial killer was arrested Saturday in the deaths of four people after a would-be fifth victim narrowly escaped harm and alerted a police officer. Juan David Ortiz, 35, confessed to killing four people between September 3 and September 15, according to a criminal complaint filed in Webb County, Texas. Ortiz was charged with four murder charges and one unlawful restraint with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, according to Webb County District Attorney Isidro R. "Chilo" Alaniz. The bodies of four victims were found over the past two weeks, sheriff's...

U.S. Border Patrol agents in Nogales, AZ, apprehended three Pakistani nationals on Nov. 11. As a standard procedure, agents processed the individuals and checked their identities against numerous law enforcement and national security related databases. Record checks revealed no derogatory information about the individuals. The individuals are currently in Federal custody while they await the outcome of their immigration cases.

In an official statement first obtained by Breitbart Texas, the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) endorsed Donald Trump for President of the United States. The unusually bold statement comes just days after a senior policy adviser for Trump made clear that future U.S. border security policy would be largely determined by the men and women of the U.S. Border Patrol who are actual agents protecting the border and not by politically-appointed bureaucrats

Hundreds of infants and toddlers ages 2 years or younger have allegedly been apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol while crossing the border illegally without a parent or guardian in the past year. From October 1, 2013 to June 11, Border Patrol detained 378 unaccompanied children ages two or younger, according to data obtained by Fusion from the office of a high-ranking Democratic senator. Of those children, 95 were infants under 1 year old. Fusion tried multiple times by phone and in writing to confirm the reports with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Department of Homeland Security, but no...

A truck drives on the Mexican-side of the border fence between Naco and the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation area in this 2007 file photo. Two agents assigned to the Border Patrol's Naco station were shot Tuesday morning. One agent died. A U.S. Border Patrol agent was killed and another wounded early today in a shooting near the U.S.-Mexico border. The agents were on duty near Bisbee when the shooting occurred about 2 a.m., according to various wire reports. The wounded agent was airlifted to a hospital. He was reportedly shot in the ankle and buttocks, the Associated Press reported....

A corrupt U.S. border agent sitting in a federal prison cell is offering a chilling view of the Mexican drug cartels whose drug shipments he protected for years in return for hefty bribes. He is so terrified of the cartel's famous vicious streak that he fears for his own life -- and the lives of his family -- if he is identified as speaking to ABC News. He depicts a dangerously paranoid crime organization that has spies throughout U.S. law enforcement. To illustrate the cartel's pervasive reach, he said he got his introduction to them through an American cop. From...

A longtime rancher was killed on his Douglas-area property over the weekend, and neighbors worried that his homicide was connected to increasing border-related crime in the area. The Cochise County Sheriff's Office offered little information into the late-Saturday shooting death of 58-year-old Robert Krentz, whose family began the Krentz Ranch more than 100 years ago. Krentz's body was found on his land, which is about 35 miles northeast of Douglas, just before midnight Saturday, said Carol Capas, a spokeswoman for the Sheriff's Office. The Sheriff's Office, aided by the U.S. Border Patrol, had no suspects Sunday and continued to follow...

SAN DIEGO -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said a Border Patrol agent died in the line of duty. According to a news release, 31-year-old Eric Cabral died on Thursday. Cabral died at a local hospital after he was extracted from Jacumba, Calif. Cabral was conducting patrol duties on foot near the De Anza Springs Resort when the incident occurred.

BISBEE — Mexican President Felipe Calderon yesterday voiced his “most energetic protest” against the shooting death of a young illegal Mexican immigrant by a Naco-based Border Patrol agent on Friday and expressed frustration with a lack of information in the case. Speaking at a press conference at the Los Pinos presidential residence in Mexico City, Calderon opened his remarks by expressing condolences over the death of 22-year-old Francisco Javier Dominguez-Rivera, a native of the south-central state of Puebla. Dominguez-Rivera was shot and killed as he and six others were being detained after an illegal border crossing between Naco and Douglas...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is refuting a Daily Bulletin report that the U.S. Border Patrol provided information to the Mexican government about the whereabouts of civilian border watch groups. Read the disputed article: U.S. tipping Mexico to Minuteman patrols See the Mexican Government Web page: www.sre.gob.mx/eventos/minuteman/reporte3 "Today's report by the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, `U.S. tipping Mexico to Minuteman patrols,' is inaccurate," read the statement issued Tuesday evening. "Border Patrol does not report activity by civilian, non-law enforcement groups to the government of Mexico." Kristi Clemens, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection,...

EDMONTON -- The United States will be using Blackhawk helicopters and planes along the Montana border with Alberta and Saskatchewan to watch for terrorists, drug-runners and illegal immigrants. The aircraft will be equipped with cutting-edge photographic surveillance and monitoring equipment to watch for any suspicious activity, a spokesman for Montana Republican Senator Conrad Burns said Friday. Matt Mackowiak said the beefed-up border security comes in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S. "(Sept. 11) taught us a lot, and the northern border requires greater security and greater surveillance," Mackowiak said from Washington, D.C. "I think...

Operation Wetback was a repatriation project of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service to remove illegal Mexican immigrants ("wetbacks") from the Southwest. During the first decades of the twentieth century, the majority of migrant workers who crossed the border illegally did not have adequate protection against exploitation by American farmers. As a result of the Good Neighbor Policy, Mexico and the United States began negotiating an accord to protect the rights of Mexican agricultural workers. Continuing discussions and modifications of the agreement were so successful that the Congress chose to formalize the "temporary" program into the Bracero program,qv authorized...

A French pilot was detained after landing a private airplane at Eastern Slope Regional Airport Thursday night. U.S. Border Patrol requested law enforcement authorities detain the man until a Border Patrol officer could respond from Rangeley. According to the police incident report, Border Patrol alerted them to the presence of an airplane that did not have clearance to be in the United States. Fryeburg police Sgt. Michael McAllister found the airplane on the ramp at the airport when he arrived at 7:15 p.m. The pilot was found in the airport lounge using a pay phone. The man and his French...

When the U.S. Border Patrol launches its two new remote-controlled, camera-equipped aerial vehicles later this month to help in the search for illegal border crossers, it won't be the first border watch group to do so in the state. American Border Patrol, a private group based in Cochise County, recently marked a year of unmanned aerial vehicle patrols ....

CORONADO NATIONAL MEMORIAL - The same day that the National Park Service director visited this border memorial nearly 100 illegal immigrants were apprehended within hours after Fran Mainella left. According to U.S. Border Patrol and memorial officials two National Park Service rangers and a Border Patrol agent were patrolling near the vehicle barrier along the border when they came upon a large group of illegal immigrants. Border Patrol Tucson Sector spokesman Andy Adame said it was around 8:30 p.m. Friday when the agent and rangers came upon the group causing the illegal immigrants to scatter. An agency helicopter was called...

DOUBLE ADOBE - A collision between a horse and a vehicle on Sunday led to the animal's death and the rescue of three illegal immigrants from the trunk of the car. While traffic was being slowed because of the accident, another van with illegal immigrants was stopped. Around 7 p.m. Sunday, a Cochise County sheriff's deputy was trying round up some horses that were on Frontier Road near Highway 80 when a 1995 Dodge suddenly hit one of the animals, Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Carol Capas said Monday afternoon. The impact caused major damage to the front of the car and...

COCHISE COUNTY - This border county continues to be a major point for illegal immigrants entering the United States. Nearly half of the 34,342 illegal immigrants apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol's Tucson Sector in January happened in Cochise County. In Cochise County, 16,579 were apprehended, said Andy Adame, a Border Patrol spokesman. The number of apprehensions for the sector are up by 28 percent when compared to January 2003, when 26,823 illegal immigrants were taken into custody, he said Monday. Last month, Naco Station agents saw a 19 percent increase of apprehensions in contrast to January 2003, 7,061 versus...