Trump to change Border Patrol leader to political appointee
Jason Owens, the retiring chief, said he hopes future leaders remain impartial and keep politics out of the agency.
Trump orders Border Patrol to immediately stop setting illegal migrants free in the US: ‘Catch and release is ended’
Border Patrol agents were given the edict by the Trump administration on President Trump’s first full day in office Tuesday.
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Gov. Greg Abbott says his 'border czar' has been promoted to lead U.S. Border Patrol
He last served as the top agent in the Border Patrol’s Weslaco station. Before that he served as acting deputy chief of operations at the agency’s headquarters in D.C. He has said he left ...
Pentagon to deploy 1,500 troops to southern border for border security
The Pentagon will begin deploying as many as 1,500 active duty troops to help secure the southern border in the coming days, ...
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Trump orders Border Patrol to immediately stop setting illegal migrants free in the US: ‘Catch and release is ended’
Border Patrol agents were given the edict by the ... with the approval of from the Department of Homeland Security headquarters in Washington. Under Biden, migrants often waltzed across the ...
Fort Carson military police and combat engineers to deploy to the border
The units will be among the 1,500 service members from the Army and Marine Corps headed to the border under President Donald ...
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U.S. border agents told to summarily deport migrants without granting asylum hearings under Trump edict
The internal government documents say requests to release migrants with a court notice will need to be approved by Border Patrol headquarters and will only be considered in "life-threatening ...
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Pentagon is sending 1,500 active duty troops to help secure the US-Mexico border
There are about 20,000 Border Patrol agents, and while the southern ... various communications, medical and headquarters units, combat engineers, planners and public affairs units.