customs and border protection

More than 86,000 people have been caught illegally crossing into the United States in 2023, a 30% increase from the same time last year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) mid-year statistics. Agents say some are being picked up near the border thanks to smugglers using social media apps to offer appealing driving gigs to young people and...

Chris Magnus said Republican governors are drawing more migrants to the U.S. by pushing falsehoods about the opportunities that await them in Northern cities.

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol is pausing its border wall replacement project in Friendship Park, agreeing, at least in part, to a plea made by park supporters who wanted to negotiate assurances. NBC 7’s Jackie Crea has more.

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol is pausing its border wall replacement project in Friendship Park, agreeing to a plea made by park supporters who wanted to negotiate assurances for public access to the park before the new walls were built.

On Wednesday night, a committee of Friendship Park stakeholders met with U.S. Customs and Border Protection representatives to discuss plans for new walls running through the historic park. Supporters want the government to halt construction for months so they can negotiate assurances for public use once the walls are built.

NBC 7’s Dave Summers shares why Friendship Park supporters want the government to wait to start construction on a border wall running through Friendship Park.

Plans for an improved border fence that would have spelled the end of Friendship Park in Imperial Beach have been adjusted, allowing friends in the U.S. and Mexico to keep embracing in person.

Customs and Border Protection confirmed the new border wall replacement project will make room for Friendship Park. NBC 7’s Dave Summers has the story.

Border Patrol agents on horseback engaged in “unnecessary use of force” against non-threatening Haitian immigrants but didn’t whip any with their reins, according to a federal investigation of chaotic scenes along the Texas-Mexico border last fall.

Live centipedes labeled as “earphones” and dried sea cucumbers declared as “dried food” were seized by the Customs and Border Protection Los Angeles Field Office in what it says is a representation of a huge increase in contraband coming by air, sea and ground shipments.

CBP officers in Philadelphia were suspicious of the crawling contents of the jars, so they reached out to a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service inspector who determined the leeches were Hirudo Medicinalis, a type of leech used in bloodletting treatments.

Authorities say a man who tried to slither past U.S. border agents in California had 52 lizards and snakes hidden in his clothing

Authorities are investigating the death of a man who was shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent late Saturday a few miles north of the Mexico border near of the Arizona town of Douglas.