Both CBP, whose officers work at the nation’s 328 ports of entry, and the Border Patrol have struggled to hire and retain ...

Ali Bradley gets exclusive access to see how border patrol agents train and meets the next generation at an academy graduation ceremony. Agents teach Bradley how to shoot and explain the spike in ...

As the Trump administration cracks down on undocumented immigrants deep in the country, it’s sending Marines and soldiers to ...

ICE, with only about 6,000 deportation officers, has found a ready partner in the Border Patrol, which is also part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. It comes at a time when border arrests ...

When her husband died after a grueling U.S. Border Patrol training program for new agents, Lisa Afolayan applied for the federal benefits promised to families of first responders whose lives are ...

A Border Patrol agent died in 2009. His widow is still fighting a backlogged US program for benefits When her husband died during a U.S. Border Patrol training program for new agents, Lisa ...

But Lisa Afolayan appealed with help from a border patrol union. A one-day hearing was held in late 2012. The hearing officer denied her claim more than a year later, saying the “perfect storm” of ...