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HOUSTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Thanks to a recruitment blitz, Hispanics now comprise 52 percent of the agents of the U.S. Border Patrol, says an agency director.
WASHINGTON, July 8 (UPI) -- ICx Technologies has begun shipping its unmanned mobile surveillance systems for deployment along the U.S. border with Mexico.
MEMPHIS, June 23 (UPI) -- The U.S. Border Patrol says it's aggressively recruiting young blacks in an effort to fill its ranks and change its culture.
WASHINGTON, April 14 (UPI) -- U.S. military veterans about to finish their overseas tours of duty are a prime recruiting target of the U.S. Border Patrol, an agency spokeswoman says.
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is investigating a border inspector's claim he was beaten by two Border Patrol agents while off duty.
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Two California landowners have sued the U.S. government, saying incomplete border fences are funneling illegal immigrants to their land and devaluing property.
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- U.S. Border Patrol agents launched pepper spray and tear gas canisters into Mexican border neighborhoods to counter human traffickers.
SAN ANTONIO , Dec. 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. Border patrol says arrests for illegally crossing the U.S. border from Mexico are down nearly 35 percent in Texas and 38 percent in New Mexico.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- State and local border patrol officers on duty at the U.S.-Mexico border said they are outmanned and outgunned by illegal immigrants and drug smugglers.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- U.S. Border Patrol agents handy with a hammer are being diverted from enforcement duties to finish 70 miles of fencing on the shared border with Mexico.
