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The U.S. Border Patrol announced this week it has arrested a "child predator" from Ecuador as he attempted to enter the U.S. illegally — one of a number of sex offenders nabbed coming across the border over the holiday period.

Agents near the Arizona border with Mexico found an armed human smuggler with three people locked in the trunk of the vehicle.

Photos tweeted by U.S. Border Patrol officials this week show the filthy and dangerous conditions human smugglers force upon migrants.

Border Patrol agents disrupted a bizarre human smuggling incident when they found a group of migrants being packed into a hearse.

Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents rescued a migrant after he fell from a cliff in the Patagonia Mountains.

The U.S. Border Patrol says smugglers cloned one of their vehicles and a uniform in a smuggling attempt at the Arizona-Mexico border.

Smugglers recently used a phony Border Patrol vehicle and a driver in a fake uniform during a smuggling attempt at the Arizona-Mexico border, U.S. immigration authorities say.

DEVELOPING... Story will be updated as new information can be verified. Updated 4 times TUCSON, Ariz. — Authorities have released the name of a U.S. Border Patrol agent who was killed in a head-on crash in southern Arizona last weekend. Border Patrol officials said agent Daniel P. Cox died after he was involved in a two-vehicle collision around 12:30 a.m. Saturday on State Route 86 near Sells which is 60 miles (96 kilometers) southwest of Tucson. Cox’s age wasn’t immediately available. ...

Large Group of Migrant Children Abandoned in Arizona Desert near Border 10 Jul 2021 Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 100 migrants in the desert near Sasabe, Arizona. Human smugglers abandoned the group that contained more than 90 unaccompanied minors. Border Patrol agents patrolling the Arizona border with Mexico near Sasabe encountered a large group of migrants, according to a tweet by Tucson Sector Chief Patrol Agent John Modlin. The group consisted of more than 100 mi...

View Comments Federal officials said 185 migrants, mostly unaccompanied children, recently surrendered to border agents in San Miguel and Three Points, near Tucson.  Early Thursday, 95 migrants surrendered to Border Patrol agents after crossing the U.S. border near San Miguel, John Mennell, supervisory public affairs specialist for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, confirmed to The Republic. According to a tweet from John Modlin, interim chief patrol agent for the agency, 91 were una...