U.S. Customs and Border Protection

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at Miami International Airport say they seized several ancient Cameroon stone carvings that were illegally exported to the country. Officials say the carvings, known as “Ikom Monoliths”, date back to between 200 A.D. and 1000 A.D. According to officers, the artifacts were sent to the United States with fraudulent documents. In 2019, there…

Over 30 pounds of cocaine was discovered onboard a vessel in the Miami River, U.S. Coast Guard and Customs officials said Wednesday. The vessel, La Temperance, was boarded on Monday due its previous stop and “suspected fraudulent mariner credentials,” the agency said. While onboard, K-9 units sniffed out 20 packages of cocaine. Officials say the packages totaled to around 33…

About 8,800 unaccompanied children have been quickly expelled from the United States along the Mexico border under a pandemic-related measure that effectively ended asylum

Long lines could be seen spilling onto the streets outside of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Miramar Wednesday afternoon, as the agency says it has taken steps to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus. In a statement, the facility said it rescheduled and reduced all in-person appointments of non-detained aliens on a “case-by-case” basis. The...

The former officer pleaded guilty to deprivation of rights under the color of law, and agreed to resign from the agency and surrender his security license

A 41-year-old Congolese asylum seeker died Wednesday in U.S. government custody shortly after she entered a border station in South Texas, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Thursday.

CBP says the woman, who the agency did not identify, had arrived at an official port of entry in Laredo, Texas, early Tuesday afternoon.

U.S. border officers charged with turning away asylum seekers under Trump administration policy accused their leadership of misleading the public and disregarding concerns for their own safety, according to documents released to The Associated Press. A March 2019 letter sent to the head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection demanded that he intervene to ensure the agency’s front-line employees...

The American Civil Liberties Union and other civil rights groups sued Customs and Border Protection Wednesday to release records concerning units they say are deployed at airports to “target, detain and interrogate innocent travelers.”

A 7-year-old child who is unable to contain her own waste due to a congenital illness and who had been refused entry to the United States three times was finally allowed into the country Tuesday, after U.S. border agents exempted her and her mother from the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy. The reversal came after U.S. Customs and...

A flu-ridden 16-year-old from Guatemala writhed in agony inside a U.S. Border Patrol cell and collapsed on the floor where he lay for several hours before he was found dead, according to video released Thursday that further calls into question the Trump administration’s treatment of immigrant families....

The footage published by ProPublica shows the last hours of Carlos Hernandez Vasquez, who...

For months, asylum seekers have been prohibited from filing claims at U.S. border crossings under a much-criticized Trump administration policy....

Now some are sprinting down vehicle lanes or renting cars to try to make it inside the U.S. Officials say the migrants’ efforts are causing traffic delays at Arizona crossings, with U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials barricading car lanes for...