A Colorado district attorney has charged an immigration agent after a protester said she was held in a chokehold during demonstrations against the detention of an immigrant father and two children.

A refund system for businesses that paid tariffs which the U.S. Supreme Court eventually struck down has launched.

Prosecutors and attorneys for Pete Arrendondo, who faces charges over the shooting’s botched response, have repeatedly requested U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents to testify. The agency has refused.

Affordable housing residents near a federal immigration building in Portland, Oregon, have won a court order limiting federal officers’ use of tear gas during protests at the facility.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has opened an internal investigation into whether the one-time architect of President Donald Trump’s large-scale immigration crackdown made disparaging comments about the Jewish faith while criticizing the U.S. attorney for Minnesota.

Sen. Rand Paul has challenged federal immigration officers over the shooting death of Alex Pretti and said the public has lost trust.

A South Korean solar company says it will temporarily reduce pay and working hours for about 1,000 of its 3,000 employees in Georgia because U.S. customs officials have been detaining imported components for solar panels.

An appeals court has ruled in favor of the Trump administration and stopped a judge from trying to get daily updates from a Border Patrol official about the government’s immigration crackdown in the Chicago area.

President Donald Trump says he’s backing off a planned surge of federal agents into San Francisco after speaking to the mayor, as protesters gathered outside a U.S. Coast Guard base where they were located.

The U.S. Coast Guard has announced it is providing a base for U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents in the San Francisco area.

U.S. Border Patrol agents jumped out of the back of a rented Penske truck and made arrests at a Los Angeles Home Depot store during an immigration raid.

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer has been shot in a Manhattan park in what authorities say was an apparent botched robbery.

Attorneys argued over whether a Harvard University researcher accused of smuggling frog embryos brought “biological materials” into the U.S. Kseniia Petrova, a Russian-born scientist conducting cancer research for Harvard Medical School, appeared in Massachusetts federal court Wednesday for a probable cause hearing, where government and defense attorneys argued over whether she brought “biological materials” into the U.S. She was returning from a vacation from France in February when she was...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it regularly provides security at big sporting events in response to questions about the agency’s presence at the FIFA Club World Cup amid President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

A federal judge says the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement must reconsider the cases of some migrant children who have been stuck in government custody since the Trump administration changed the identification requirements for would-be family sponsors.

The Trump administration is seeking to end an immigration policy cornerstone that since the 1990s has offered protections to child migrants in federal custody, a move that will be challenged by advocates.

U.S. officials have seized millions of dollars’ worth of counterfeit Apple cell phone chargers in the Houston area.

Authorities say a woman charged in the January killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont fired the bullet that struck him during a traffic stop.

Showing up to the home in a gym tank top, Andres Fernandez De La Paz allegedly shot 34-year-old Ediesky Incencio Pineiro in the chest.

An attempt to transport a shipment of counterfeit cigarettes valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars was smoked out in Texas over the weekend.

The Trump administration is quietly revoking the temporary legal status of people who entered the country via an online appointment app at U.S. border crossings with Mexico.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers stopped a shipment of what was labeled as fresh bell peppers and cucumbers, but something entirely different was concealed inside the produce.

The United States has blocked imports of sea salt products from a major South Korean salt farm accused of using slave labor, becoming the first trade partner to take punitive action against a decadeslong problem on salt farms in remote islands off South Korea’s southwest coast.

A notice to customers dazzled by the low-priced products on Chinese shopping apps: the days of getting trendy clothing, tools and gag gifts that cost less than lunch delivered to your door in 10 days are probably numbered.

The government is encouraging illegal migrants to self-deport using a new app, but a Houston area immigration advocate questions the ramifications.

If any husbands or boyfriends mess up Valentine’s Day this week, it’s not because of a shortage of flowers.

A federal judge filed a last-minute order extending a court agreement ensuring protections for children in federal custody the day after it ended.

The Senate Judiciary Committee launched its investigation following the 2023 death of an 8-year-old girl at a facility in Harlingen.

Hours after Trump’s inauguration, his administration canceled appointments allowing migrants to enter the U.S. to request asylum, leaving many of them stranded on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Authorities are investigating the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent near Canada that also left a suspect dead and another injured.

Authorities say a U.S. Border Patrol agent has been fatally shot in northern Vermont.

The U.S. is still separating some migrant children from parents while holding them after they cross the border despite broad improvements at detention centers in Texas.

Authorities say U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents have seized more than 3,000 fake Gibson electric guitars shipped from Asia at the Los Angeles-Long Beach Seaport.

Ever wondered what comes through one of the busiest airports in the country?

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Pharr International Bridge in Texas made a significant drug bust, discovering $31 million worth of methamphetamine hidden in a shipment of serrano peppers.

Increasingly hot summers and methamphetamine are a deadly mix.

Chelsea Walsh was in Kyiv as a nurse and aid worker in the early days of the war in Ukraine.

The review of CBP agents’ response to the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting found that active shooting training was insufficient.

U.S. arrests for illegally crossing the border from Mexico during July have plummeted to a new low for Joe Biden’s presidency, raising prospects a temporary ban on asylum may be lifted soon.

A sense of uncertainty prevails among migrants after President Joe Biden invoked powers to suspend asylum for people who cross the border illegally.

Data from Customs and Border Protection shows illegal border crossings have been going down since January.

A company that provides services for immigrants in federal detention has been ordered to pay more than $811 million in restitution and penalties in a lawsuit alleging it used deceptive and abusive tactics.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection says one of its dogs sniffed out something unusual in a traveler's luggage in Boston — dead monkeys.

U.S. authorities say a border crossing on the most direct route from Phoenix to the nearest beaches will reopen Thursday, one month after it closed in response to a large migrant influx.

Texas has begun flying migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border to Chicago.

More than $10 million worth of hard narcotics were found in a shipment of jalapeño paste in San Diego last week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers said.

Arizona’s governor has ordered the state’s National Guard to send troops to the border with Mexico to help federal officials manage an influx of migrants.

U.S. officials recently seized more than 1.4 million illegal e-cigarettes from overseas manufacturers, including the company behind Elf Bar.

The U.S. Border Patrol says it is overwhelmed by a shift in human smuggling routes, with hundreds of migrants from faraway countries like Senegal, Bangladesh and China being dropped in a remote desert area in Arizona.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced a new government-wide strategy that will target not only fentanyl but precursor materials used to make the synthetic opioid.

Mexico's president says he rejected a U.S. request to set up migrant transit centers in Mexico.

Federal customs agents pooh-poohed the plans of a Iowa woman who wanted to make jewelry from giraffe feces she picked up on a trip to Kenya and brought back to the U.S. in her luggage.

Mexican immigration officials said they will negotiate with five countries’ governments to ensure they will take back their citizens. The agreement was announced after shelters in El Paso said they are over capacity.

Congress' official watchdog says in a report that the construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border under former President Donald Trump toppled untold numbers of saguaro cactuses in Arizona, put endangered ocelots at risk in Texas and disturbed Native American burial grounds.

After a 3-year-old began showing signs of distress, the bus of asylum-seekers traveling from Brownsville to Chicago pulled over and an ambulance was called. The child later died at a hospital in Illinois.

As the Biden administration prepared to launch speedy asylum screenings at the border this spring, authorities pledged a key difference from a Trump-era version of the policy: Migrants would be guaranteed access to legal representation.

Conservatives in Congress are anxious to counter China, which is America’s leading economic adversary.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection have released body camera footage that shows Border Patrol agents were concerned that a tribal member they fatally shot last month many have been carrying a handgun.

U.S. authorities have halted mobile app appointments to admit asylum-seekers at a Texas border crossing after advocates warned U.S. authorities that migrants are being extorted there.

Migrants are rushing across the Mexico border in hopes of entering the U.S. in the final hours before pandemic-related asylum restrictions are lifted at midnight.

The Biden administration will send 1,500 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border amid an expected migrant surge following the end of coronavirus pandemic-era restrictions.

A former Marine who helped smuggle drugs for years from Mexico into the U.S. and even tried to get a song written about his exploits has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison.

The Biden administration has launched an online appointment system for migrants to be exempt from limits on seeking asylum, its latest major step to overhaul border enforcement.

President Joe Biden’s first visit to El Paso on Sunday afternoon since taking office was spent with local officials and personnel from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says Philadelphia will be the next destination for migrants the state is transporting from the U.S.-Mexico border by the thousands to Democratic-led locales.

Title 42 was invoked early in the pandemic by the Trump administration and continued under President Joe Biden. Since then, immigration officials have used it more than 2 million times to turn away asylum-seekers at the border.

The head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection has resigned from his job leading the nation’s largest law enforcement agency as agents encounter record numbers of migrants entering the U.S. from Mexico.

U.S. Border Patrol agents launched pepper balls at a group of migrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border along the Rio Grande in El Paso.

With more than 60,000 employees, U.S. Customs and Border Protection is one of the world’s largest law enforcement organizations. Its main goal is to keep us safe. The agency has three components-- Office of Field Operations, Border Patrol and Air and Marine Operations.

New Mexico's green chile season is in full swing as the aroma of fresh roasted peppers permeates the air.

In a Sept. 3 story about the deaths of migrants trying to cross into the United States from Mexico, The Associated Press misspelled the name of a Mexican city.

At least eight migrants were killed as dozens attempted a hazardous crossing of the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass, Texas, officials said Friday.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said its Office of Field Operations officers seized cocaine that totaled over $11.8 million in street value over the weekend.

Federal agents in Memphis have seized a potentially 3,000-year-old ancient Egyptian artifact that was shipped in from Europe.

In July, Abbott authorized state law enforcement to transport migrants to ports of entry. It’s unclear how and why migrants are being detained, raising civil rights concerns and questions about whether the state is overstepping federal authority.

To immigration experts, the astounding loss of life illustrates just how difficult it is to stem migration into the country, even as Abbott has spent the last year pouring billions of state dollars into securing the border.

Employees accused of misconduct at the Department of Homeland Security could face more stringent penalties under an overhaul that follows complaints about the handling of internal discipline in the third largest U.S. government agency.

Haitians are fleeing in greater numbers to the neighboring Dominican Republic, where they step onto rickety wooden boats as they attempt to reach Puerto Rico — a trip in which 11 Haitian women drowned this week, with dozens of other migrants believed missing.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says an agent in Texas has been arrested and charged with assaulting and mistreating a juvenile in custody.

The Biden administration has released a plan to deal with an increase in already historic numbers of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Authorities are investigating the cause of death this week of a Mexican woman whose leg was entangled while using a climbing harness and ended up hanging upside down off the border wall in eastern Arizona.

A Southern California man is accused of smuggling more than 1,700 reptiles — including baby crocodiles and Mexican beaded lizards — into the U.S. since 2016.

Haitian migrants are reaching Florida’s shores in repeated suspected human smuggling operations, outpacing last year’s migration waves.

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

Federal officials say a wooden boat carrying hundreds of Haitian migrants in a suspected human smuggling operation ran aground just off Key Largo, Florida.

Authorities have seized nearly $3 million worth of methamphetamine, hidden among a shipment of onions, during a tractor-trailer’s inspection at federal facility in San Diego.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents stopped a woman who attempted to smuggle several spider monkeys into the country.

An internal review has been launched into the actions of a special Customs and Border Protection unit that used sensitive government databases intended to track terrorists to investigate as many as 20 U.S.-based journalists, including an Associated Press reporter.

A special federal Customs and Border Protection unit used sensitive government databases intended to investigate as many as 20 U.S.-based journalists, including a Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press reporter.

Stolen artifacts that date back to 800 A.D. were returned to the Republic of Mali on Nov. 22 with the help of a Rice University professor, federal authorities said.

We rounded up some of the strangest finds that the TSA and CBP documented in Texas in 2021.

The U.S. Justice Department is in talks to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to each child and parent who was separated under a Trump-era practice of splitting families at the border.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Chicago seized four packages on Monday that contained counterfeit COVID-19 vaccination cards and Ivermectin pills bound for Houston and Seagraves, Texas, according to CBP.

Greyhound Lines Inc. will pay $2.2 million to settle a lawsuit over the bus line’s practice of allowing U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents to board its buses in Washington state to conduct immigration sweeps.

Faith-based groups are scrambling to keep up with fast-paced developments in the Haitian migrant crisis.

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Federal officials have halted traffic so they can process thousands of Haitian migrants seeking asylum. The closure has made it difficult for the Texas city’s binational employees and business owners to keep normal operations going.

A federal law enforcement officer was arrested carrying a gun at Saturday’s rally at the U.S. Capitol billed to support the suspects charged in January’s insurrection, but he will not be prosecuted.

Abbott’s announcements come as thousands of migrants — mostly from Haiti — have gathered under an international bridge in Del Rio.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized dozens of boxes of horse medications and supplements at the U.S.-Mexico border earlier this week.