By Joel Malkin
Photo: CBS 12
An alleged cocaine trafficker was nabbed, along with nearly two dozen illegal immigrants off the coast of Palm Beach.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials say the boat was being used as a maritime smuggling event and its Air and Marine Operations team stopped the activity.
Twenty-two migrants were detained, including an unidentified Colombian national who was recently released from prison.
AP Photo/Oliver de Ros
5 Jun 2021
The Biden team’s permissive migration enforcement policy is causing economic chaos among poverty-stricken Central Americans who took unsustainable debt to try to sneak into the U.S. but failed.
Now, these deported migrants, many of whom used their house as collateral, are indebted and scared that their unsuccessful migration could cost them more than they can bear.
Lax border policies under President Joe Biden are attracting more migrants, prompting them to take out loans that fill the coffers of smugglers, who often work for drug cartels and rape women and girls during the journey. If the migrants fail to make it into the U.S., they will find themselves deeper in the red.
CBP Seizes Multiple Rifles at Border Crossing into Mexico
File Photo: U.S. Customs and Border Protection/Tucson Sector
30 May 2021
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized a load of smuggled semi-automatic rifles during an attempt to cross into Mexico from Texas. The officers seized eight rifles and magazines.
CBP officers assigned to the Del Rio Port of Entry on May 25 observed a 2021 Dodge Ram 3500 pickup truck and trailer approaching for an exit inspection, according to information obtained from CBP’s Office of Field Operations. The officers referred the driver to a secondary inspection station.
CBP Officers in Del Rio, Texas, seized eight rifles and magazines during an exit inspection. (Photo: U.S. Customs and Border Protection)
Washington DC [US], May 28 (ANI): The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has imposed an import ban on seafood from the Chinese Dalian Fishing Company because of their use of forced labor, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on Friday.