Category: Immigration & Border Security

CBP Seizes Shipment Containing 50,000 Fake Apple AirPods, 920 Nintendo Video Game Consoles From China

January 7, 2022
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Customs agents working at the Port of Houston seized a shipment containing 50,000 fake Apple AirPods and 920 Nintendo video game consoles early last month for violating intellectual property rights (IPR), U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced on Thursday. The officers discovered the illegitimate products after inspecting a shipment of goods arriving from China into the United…

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Cartel Put Hit Out on Arizona Sheriff’s Border Team, Detective Says

January 6, 2022
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COCHISE COUNTY, Arizona—The more effective Sheriff Mark Dannels’s border team is, the more it disrupts the Mexican-based Sinaloa cartel’s operations. Recently, the cartel put a hit out on Dannels’s top border guys, the Cochise County sheriff said. His county sits in southeast Arizona and shares 83 miles of remote desert land with Mexico. “We had…

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Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz Tests Positive for COVID-19 Shortly Before Getting Booster Shot

January 6, 2022
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Border Patrol chief Raul Ortiz revealed on Wednesday that he tested positive for COVID-19 shortly before he was set to receive his booster shot, and urged people to get vaccinated. “Earlier today I was set to receive my Booster but was feeling symptomatic and took a #COVID test. I tested positive and am self-isolating, hopeful to…

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American Smuggling Illegal Aliens Crashes Plane in Texas, Escapes

January 4, 2022
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Texas law enforcement is looking for the pilot of a small plane that crashed while he was smuggling illegal aliens into the United States on Dec. 30, 2021. Pilot Tobias Penner Peters was attempting to smuggle five illegal immigrants when he crashed north of the Presidio Lely International Airport near Marfa, a remote border region in…

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‘Cartel Uber’: How Human Smuggling Is Devastating Lives in Arizona

January 4, 2022
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COCHISE COUNTY, Arizona—Wanda Sitoski loved holidays. Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Easter—you name it, she had boxes of decorations for them all. But her upcoming 65th birthday was more significant than most, as Sitoski was poised to retire, kick back, and travel. On Oct. 30, 2021, as she drove to her favorite expensive restaurant to…

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‘Cartel Uber’: Around 1,000 Vehicles Smuggling Illegal Aliens Each Month in Arizona County

January 4, 2022
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COCHISE COUNTY, Arizona—Wanda Sitoski loved holidays. Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Easter—you name it, she had boxes of decorations for them all. But her upcoming 65th birthday was more significant than most, as Sitoski was poised to retire, kick back, and travel. On Oct. 30, 2021, as she drove to her favorite expensive restaurant to…

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Human Smuggling Is Booming in Arizona, With Deadly Consequences

January 4, 2022
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COCHISE COUNTY, Arizona—Wanda Sitoski loved holidays. Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Easter—you name it, she had boxes of decorations for them all. But her upcoming 65th birthday was more significant than most, as Sitoski was poised to retire, kick back, and travel. On Oct. 30, 2021, as she drove to her favorite expensive restaurant to…

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Biden Admin Expands Remain-in-Mexico Program to San Diego

January 3, 2022
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The Biden administration expanded the Trump-era “remain-in-Mexico” policy to San Diego, California, on Monday, complying with a federal court order even as it continues efforts to end the policy, administration officials told reporters on a call. Implemented in 2019, the policy, officially called the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), requires asylum seekers to wait in Mexico until…

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Biden Administration Urges Supreme Court to Let It End ‘Remain in Mexico’ Program

December 30, 2021
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Department of Justice lawyers late Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to hear a case involving the “Remain in Mexico” program. The policy was started during the Trump administration and forces many asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their claims are heard. The Biden administration ended it but was ordered by a judge over the…

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Illegal Immigration is ‘On Steroids’ in Biden’s America: Rep. Tom Tiffany

December 30, 2021
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Illegal immigration has been “on steroids” in the United States ever since President Joe Biden entered office on Jan. 20 and rolled back many of former President Donald Trump’s immigration restrictions, says Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wis.). “You look at what’s happened since January 20, when President Biden … one of the first things he did…

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