U.S. Customs and Border Protection

About 15 people are in custody after a panga was spotted in the La Jolla area early Wednesday, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol said.

Businesses along the San Diego and Tijuana border have been impacted by the pandemic and the border travel restrictions put in place by the federal government in March 2020.

With average wait times around two hours at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry, border businesses struggle with labor shortage, reports NBC 7’s Melissa Adan

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) hosted a briefing on border security Saturday afternoon with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

U.S. Customs officials seized 57,607 counterfeit products that arrived at the LA/Long Beach Seaport in a containerized cargo shipment.

A possible human smuggling attempt in Mission Bay is under investigation Sunday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

NBC 7’s Omari Fleming has more details on the suspected smuggling attempt Sunday in Mission Beach.

It’s the third suspected smuggling incident in San Diego waters in the month of May, and immigration experts the refugee crisis in Central America, the pandemic and the United States’ asylum policy all play a role in the growing trend.

One person is dead and eight others were hospitalized after a failed human smuggling attempt resulted in several people jumping off the panga they were in and into waters off La Jolla shores. NBC 7’s Melissa Adan has more.

A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent in Texas has pleaded guilty to illegally bringing a Mexican woman into the U.S. to work as her nanny, according to federal court documents.

The number of unaccompanied children encountered on the U.S. border with Mexico in April eased from an all-time high a month earlier, while more adults are coming without families

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it caught a Georgia woman trying to smuggle cocaine in multiple pairs of shoes through the Atlanta airport.

The Biden administration wants federal employees to drop use of the word “alien” to refer to noncitizens and migrants in official communications.

CBP said they were conducting an exercise that could cause traffic delays at the San Ysidro Port of Entry Wednesday morning.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is conducting an exercise at the San Ysidro Port of Entry Wednesday morning that may cause border crossing delays, the agency said.

The Biden administration is restricting the information Border Patrol agents and sector chiefs can share with the media as a surge of migrants tests the agency’s capacity at the southern border, two current and two former Customs and Border Protection officials told NBC News.

Customs authorities in Ohio say they intercepted a shipment of cereal earlier this month with a special frosting — cocaine.

A man trying to enter the United States illegally at the Mexican border with Texas was fatally shot by a Border Patrol agent, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

The U.S. said it will ban all shipments of palm oil from one of the world’s biggest producers after finding indicators of forced labor and other abuses on plantations feeding into the supply chains of some of America’s most famous food and cosmetic companies