PHOENIX — A Mexican teen was sentenced to 12 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for assaulting a Border Patrol agent in Arizona, according to the United States ...

SALTON CITY, Calif. -- El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents arrested two suspected drug smugglers in Salton City Wednesday, after discovering packages of Mexican candy laced with methamphetamine ...

TUCSON, Ariz. -- Border Patrol agents in southern Arizona have uncovered another illegal tunnel running under the U.S.-Mexico border, the latest in a series of discoveries and the result of ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection carried out an immigration raid at a Sacramento Home Depot on Thursday. The raid comes less than a week after a judge ordered a pause on immigration raids ...

But other measurements were more troubling. In 2008, the Border Patrol struggled to keep new agents, with about 20% failing to graduate from the academy and more leaving after returning to their ...

McALLEN, Texas — In 2006, top U.S. Border Patrol officials were asked how long it would take to hire 6,000 agents, a roughly 50% increase at the time. Michael Fisher, then deputy chief in San ...