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Updated Apr 12, 2021, 1:21 pm
Dylan Smith
/TucsonSentinel.com
President Joe Biden is nominating the head of Tucson's Police Department, Chris Magnus, to head the parent agency of the U.S. Border Patrol. Magnus was an outspoken critic of Trump administration border policies.... Read more»
Posted Aug 5, 2020, 2:30 pm
A.C. Thompson
/ProPublica
Agents in a secret Facebook group shared crudely manipulated images of men sexually assaulting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat and frequent antagonist of the Border Patrol; joked about migrants who died while trying to enter the United States; and made racist insults about Central Americans. The group called itself “I’m 10-15,” Border Patrol radio code for “aliens in custody,” and included some 9,500 current or former agents.
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Posted Jul 9, 2018, 4:12 pm
Bryan Pietsch
/Cronkite News
Customs and Border Protection is getting better at attracting and hiring job applicants, but the agency still faces thousands of vacancies in its law enforcement ranks, according to a recent Government Accountability Office report.... Read more»
Posted Feb 28, 2018, 2:24 pm
Robin Hoover
/Special to TucsonSentinel.com
Here we go again. The Border Patrol is retaliating against humanitarians working to save lives in the desert. Brandon Judd of the National Border Patrol Council recently said, "If that water heats up in the desert, it's actually a lot more dangerous to drink extremely heated water than what it is if you don't have that water at all." ... Read more»
Posted Jan 22, 2018, 9:51 pm
Ariana Bustos
/Cronkite News
The government shutdown that began Friday may have been short-lived, but that doesn’t mean the thousands of federal workers in Arizona who were sent home Monday or made to work without pay feel any less put-upon.... Read more»
Posted Aug 6, 2017, 1:32 pm
Brianna Stearns
/Cronkite News
The Homeland Security Department may not have the resources needed to hire the thousands of new agents President Trump has ordered, and even if it could it might not know how to best deploy them.... Read more»
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Posted Jun 27, 2017, 9:28 am
Megan Janetsky
/Cronkite News
The Supreme Court has ordered a lower court to reconsider its decision to throw out a lawsuit that a Mexican family filed against the Border Patrol agent who fatally shot their son across the border. The Texas case may still have a long way to go in the courts, but the outcome could affect a similar 2012 case in Nogales.... Read more»
Posted Apr 14, 2017, 12:59 pm
Andres Guerra Luz
/Cronkite News
Customs and Border Protection officials are considering ways to waive polygraphs for some applicants as the agency works to meet President Trump’s push to hire thousands more border agents. But it would also relax a policy meant to curb a wave of corruption that CBP faced in its last hiring boom, a change critics called “alarming.”... Read more»
Posted Jul 11, 2016, 11:05 am
Andrew Becker
/Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting
As the first outsider appointed to run the Border Patrol in its 92-year history, former FBI official Mark Morgan starts his new job this week as chief with a target on his back. The selection of the career FBI official to run the 20,000-strong force sends a clear message: BP has a culture problem that needs to be fixed.... Read more»
Posted May 31, 2016, 2:30 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
U.S. Sen. John McCain was endorsed by the National Border Patrol Council, the union that represents nearly 16,500 Border Patrol agents, during an event Tuesday in Tucson. McCain is facing a tough reelection battle, fending off challenges from the right in the GOP primary with the prospect of a tough general election opponent in Ann Kirkpatrick.
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Posted Mar 8, 2016, 10:45 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
Members of the Border Patrol's union and Sheriff Paul Babeu accused the Obama administration of "manipulating data," claiming BP supervisors are ordering agents to release immigrants without documents requiring them to appear in court. A staffer for Babeu blocked a Phoenix reporter from the announcement.
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Posted Oct 9, 2015, 2:17 pm
Alicia Clark
/Cronkite News
Dr. Luis Contreras Sanchez was browsing social media when he heard a rapid burst of gunfire just outside his home. It was a night he would not soon forget. Outside his building in Nogales, Mexico, 16-year-old Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez was dead on the sidewalk. He had been shot as many as ten times, the majority of the bullets hitting him on the back of his body. The shooter allegedly was Border Patrol Agent Lonnie Swartz.... Read more»
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Updated Jul 23, 2015, 1:44 pm
Patrick Svitek
/Texas Tribune
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump landed on time in South Texas on Thursday, even though a Border Patrol union here backed out of hosting him.... Read more»
Posted Mar 18, 2015, 12:22 pm
Jessica Boehm
/Cronkite News Service
Local law enforcement must be involved in securing “the rural parts of the Southwest border,” which is still dangerously insecure, Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels told a Senate panel Tuesday.... Read more»
Posted Aug 26, 2014, 9:01 am
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
Belt-tightening made necessary by federal spending cuts, as well as pointed questions about the use of hours by federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security have resulted in cuts to the overtime hours of agents working as supervisors or in administrative duties, even as reform legislation languishes in Congress. ... Read more»
Posted Jul 12, 2014, 12:12 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
Questioned about the potential impact of the children and families brought to Tucson by immigration authorities, the director of the Pima County Health Department said they "do not constitute a public health threat."... Read more»