The Defense Department will send more helicopters and airplanes to keep watch over the U.S.-Mexico border next year, as the number of National Guard troops working with the Border Patrol is reduced.... Read more»
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents rescued an injured man via helicopter from a remote area of the Coronado National Forest on Thursday.... Read more»5
Tucson Sector Border Patrol apprehensions were down more than 40 percent in 2011, which U.S. Customs and Border Protection attributes to technology, improved infrastructure and more employees.... Read more»2
Narcotics seizures on the country’s borders increased by 20 percent during 2011, even as apprehensions of illegal immigrants fell to their lowest levels in decades. The total arrested in Arizona is the lowest in 17 years.... Read more»2
A controversial immigration law that would require Alabama residents to prove their citizenship when registering a mobile home has been blocked.... Read more»
Migrants and advocacy groups on both sides of the border urged the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the controversial Arizona immigration law that has sparked outrage in Mexico.... Read more»9
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a man wanted in Pima County on sexual abuse charges and a man with ties to the Sureño 13 gang in separate incidents over the weekend.... Read more»
The Supreme Court announced that it will review the preliminary injunction that is blocking Arizona’s controversial anti-immigration law SB 1070. While the case is technically a review of the injunction, and not a decision on the law’s merits, a decision will be pivotal for SB 1070’s future.... Read more»11
A Nogales Station agent used a Taser on a suspected drug smuggler Thursday after the suspect made a threatening move toward the agent.... Read more»
For the second year in a row, El Paso has the lowest crime rate among American cities with populations over 500,000, according to rankings compiled by the CQ Press and released Friday.... Read more»
Campaign rhetoric to the contrary, statistics show that the number of illegal immigrants crossing the border is less of a problem now than it has been for four decades.... Read more»5
Four Mexican men were arrested on human smuggling charges after police raided a suspected drop house Wednesday where 19 people were being held in Avondale.... Read more»3
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents arrested two Mexican men with ties to street gangs and found a human skull in the desert in separate incidents Wednesday.... Read more»
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents arrested two men with gang affiliations and rescued two people from the desert over the weekend.... Read more»
Border Patrol agents arrested a convicted rapist and two others with criminal pasts in separate incidents Thursday.... Read more»
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