Customs and Border Protection has ordered construction crews building Trump’s second border wall to stop drilling wells in drought-stricken New Mexico after ranchers said pumping the groundwater needed to mix cement could threaten their livestock.
A federal judge has questioned a U.S. Customs and Border Protection official about the government’s process for refunding billions of dollars importers paid before the Supreme Court struck down some of tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump.
U.S. immigration authorities have canceled the visas of more than two dozen people, including some who worked on a Disney Cruise Line ship, amid allegations they possessed or had viewed child sexual abuse images.
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.
The Detroit Field Office of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) intercepted approximately 4,400 pounds of cocaine and about 1,000 pounds of methamphetamine during the past fiscal year, highlighting intensified enforcement efforts at the northern border.
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.
120 Soldiers from the Michigan Army National Guard’s 1430th Engineer Company, based in Traverse City, are deploying to the Southwest Border to support federal law enforcement efforts.
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.
The potential delay centers around readiness issues at the ports of entry on both sides of the Detroit-Windsor crossing, though construction of the bridge itself is 98% complete.
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.
A couple smuggled a fungus into Detroit Metro Airport that’s responsible for billions of dollars’ worth of damage and major health defects in humans and animals, federal officials said. They allegedly planned to work on it at a University of Michigan lab.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
You’re looking at a picture of larvae from a “rare and potentially destructive” fruit fly that were intercepted at the Detroit Metro Airport. Gross!
Five University of Michigan alumni were charged for allegedly taking photos of military vehicles and equipment at a base in Grayling, Michigan, and lying about their encounter with a soldier or being near anything military-related.
Five University of Michigan alumni were charged for allegedly taking photos of military vehicles and equipment at a base in Grayling, Michigan, and lying about their encounter with a soldier or being near anything military-related.
Chelsea Walsh was in Kyiv as a nurse and aid worker in the early days of the war in Ukraine.
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 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.
Two U.S. senators looking to crack down on the number of packages from China that enter the country duty-free are calling on President Joe Biden to take executive action.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Agents have initiated at least 1,000 cyber-related criminal investigations, leading to at least 293 arrests, 199 indictments and 144 convictions across the country in 2023.
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.
The U.S. Customs and Boarder Protection’s Office of Field Operations is reminding Michigan boaters with small pleasure vessels of their requirements as we head into summer.
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.
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.
Drugs, guns, and ammunition were just some of the items seized at the border in 2022 by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Detroit Field Office.
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.
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.
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.
A species of moth that hasn’t been encountered in 110 years was found inside the baggage of a passenger who flew into Detroit Metro Airport.
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.
A semi truck driver hauling produce was caught at the Ambassador Bridge with a loaded gun and methamphetamine, officials said.
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.
The Detroit office of U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported a massive increase in seizures of illegal drugs, guns and money in 2021.
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.
In 2015, Anas Elhady was a naturalized U.S. citizen living in Dearborn who was stopped by CBP after returning from a visit with family in Canada.
In 2015, Anas Elhady was a naturalized U.S. citizen living in Dearborn who was stopped by border patrol after returning from a visit with family in Canada.
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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.
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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.
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