customs and border protection

Homeland Security Is Buying Its Way Around the Fourth Amendment 19 July 2022 American taxpayers pay to be spied upon. That's one takeaway from new documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which has been examining how federal agents spent millions to purchase massive...

Pennsylvania Poaching Police Warrantlessly Installed Camera on Private Land To Surveil Hunting Club Evidence turned over in a lawsuit shows that wildlife officers set up a trail camera at a private club to surveil hunters who may be breaking state laws. 28 July 2022 Police can increasingly...

Border Patrol Agents Are Trashing Sikh Asylum-Seekers' Turbans “The turban is sacred.” At least 64 Sikh men have had their headwear confiscated and discarded by Yuma’s Border Patrol. 2 August 2022 Gurjodh Singh was leaning against a rusted vehicle barrier — planted like a giant jack in the...

The FBI Wants To Be Your Facebook Friend 14 April 2022 Undoubtedly, the FBI has always surveilled the open web, looking for persons or phrases of interest. It’s just going to get a whole lot better at doing it. And it’s going to spend millions of your tax dollars to make it easier to place...

Greg Abbott Screwed Over Truck Drivers in a Misguided Attempt to Increase Border Security The new inspection initiative duplicated screenings that were already being carried out, irking trade officials and truckers—even those who have supported Abbott up until this point. 15 April 2022 Last...

Why Does Border Patrol Need the Ability To Delete Messages? A lawsuit attempts to find out how federal agents are implementing Wickr, a communications service that has an auto-erase function. 4 April 2022 The same government that wants to demand access to all our secure phone and online...

Faith Under Fire: A Pastor’s Legal Fight Against CBP Exposes a Reckless Surveillance Operation 6 March 2022 The sun was beginning to set as Kaji Dousa neared the border. It was two days into 2019, and the line she was about to cross separating San Diego and Tijuana was the site of a...

The U.S. Border Patrol is Broken | Opinion 2 March 2022 The way the United States handles the arrival of migrants at the southern border is in dire need of reform, as border control agents themselves have told me. Recently, eight former U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents spoke with me...

Affidavit: USBP agent tried strangling her 10-year-old daughter 11 January 2022 A U.S. Border Patrol agent landed behind bars for causing injuries to her daughter, according to Laredo police. Brandy Marie Ochoa, 41, was served with arrest warrants on Jan. 7 charging her with two counts of...

Affidavit: USBP agent Francisco Javier Romero admits to drinking beer prior to DWI arrest 13 January 2022 A U.S. Border Patrol agent recently arrested on a drunk driving allegation admitted to drinking beer prior to the arrest, according to an arrest affidavit. The case unfolded at about...

Texas sheriff under investigation for routinely seizing cash from undocumented immigrants Search warrants show that Real County Sheriff Nathan Johnson is under scrutiny by state investigators, accused of illegally confiscating cash and a pickup truck from immigrants stopped by his deputies. 10...

Investigation: Accidental shootings like one in Iowa show police training gaps 11 December 2019 When an Iowa mother tried to take her child from her husband during an argument on a snowy sidewalk in 2015, an officer stepped in to stop the scuffle, firing his weapon as a dog approached. The...

Augmenting the cops with armed soldiers: Texas National Guard Filmed Trespassing During Border Operations Soldiers patrolling border communities with assault rifles is the latest escalation in Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star. 17 December 2021 It was early November when Marianna...

CBP Proudly Announces Its Facial Recognition Program Has Successfully Nailed A COVID Scofflaw 16 December 2021 Customs and Border Protection continues to protect our borders against… stuff. Much like the TSA struggles to catch any terrorists (or, indeed, any items actual terrorists might use)...

Mexican woman shot in head by US Border Patrol files claim: ‘I am looking for justice’ Marisol García Alcántara was shot shortly after arriving in the US, while riding in an SUV in Arizona 15 December 2021 Attorneys for a Mexican woman who was shot in the head by a Border Patrol agent and...

Startup Brinc Pitched Tasing Migrants From Drones, Video Reveals Well-funded Brinc positions its use of robots as nonviolent, but an early promo video undercuts this message. 13 December 2021 Brinc, a rising star among the many companies jockeying to sell drones to police, has a compelling...

Watchdog; Federal anti-terror unit investigated journalists 11 December 2021 A special Customs and Border Protection unit used sensitive government databases intended to track terrorists to investigate as many as 20 U.S.-based journalists, including a Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press...

Former federal officer sentenced for threatening 3 Blackfeet tribal employees 23 November 2021 A former off-duty federal law enforcement officer who admitted to misdemeanor assault for pointing an assault rifle at three Blackfeet tribal employees who were testing water on his property was...

California sheriff turning inmates over to ICE in violation of state rules, lawsuit says 17 November 2021 A California sheriff has been hit with a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union after he allegedly violated state law by turning inmates over to Immigration and Customs...

Border Patrol agent shot at naked, rock-throwing migrant, feds say 18 November 2021 A U.S. Border Patrol agent opened fire on a naked man who was allegedly throwing rocks at him Wednesday morning on Otay Mountain, authorities said. The 29-year-old man was not struck by the agent's gunfire...