Border patrol agents are being sent to the southern boarder
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Hundreds of Border Patrol agents from the northern border and coastal areas are being reassigned to assist with a surge at the southern border.
Agents from the Houlton sector are among more than 300 border agents who are being temporarily redeployed, according to the Customs and Border Protection. CBP seeks to deter and disrupt human smuggling activities by transnational criminal organizations and ensure our personnel are properly equipped to maintain border security,” said spokesperson Mike Niezgoda.
The redeployment coincides with an increase in the number of families and unaccompanied children trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border, officials said.
EXPLAINER: Questions remain about conditions of migrant kids
ELLIOT SPAGAT and NOMAAN MERCHANT, Associated Press
March 31, 2021
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1of30Young minors lie inside a pod at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley run by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in Donna, Texas, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. The minors are housed by the hundreds in eight pods that are about 3,200 square feet in size. Many of the pods had more than 500 children in them. The Biden administration on Tuesday for the first time allowed journalists inside its main detention facility at the border for migrant children, revealing a severely overcrowded tent structure where more than 4,000 kids and families were crammed into pods and the youngest kept in a large play pen with mats on the floor for sleeping.Dario Lopez-Mills/APShow MoreShow Less
Migrant families freed without court notice or any paperwork
ELLIOT SPAGAT, Associated Press
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1of11A chid stands next to her family s belongings as they wait for transportation at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in McAllen, Texas, on Palm Sunday, March 28, 2021. U.S. authorities are releasing migrant families at the border without notices to appear in immigration court, and sometimes without any paperwork at all.Dario Lopez-Mills/APShow MoreShow Less
2of11Migrants board a van at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in McAllen, Texas, on Palm Sunday, March 28, 2021. U.S. authorities are releasing migrant families at the border without notices to appear in immigration court and sometimes, without any paperwork at all.Dario Lopez-Mills/APShow MoreShow Less
Entire migrant families being released without court dates or papers
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Jazz ShawPosted at 8:40 am on April 1, 2021
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The madness continues on the southern border, particularly in Texas. We’ve already seen all of the horror stories of unaccompanied children being tossed over a ten-foot border wall by coyotes, leaving them on the ground for CBP to find. But now some of the immigration enforcement agents are reportedly too overwhelmed by the numbers to do even the minimal amount of processing work. According to an Associated Press report, entire families have been turned loose, not only without a court date but without any paperwork at all. Some haven’t even been fingerprinted or had their identity verified. So I take it we’re just working on the honor system now?
Updated: 12:53 PM EDT Apr 1, 2021 Federal agents and state officials seized 44 pounds of cocaine from a freighter anchored in the Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis.Officials said Drug Enforcement Administration and Customs and Border Protection agents, along with the U.S. Coast Guard and Maryland Natural Resources police, found the drugs while conducting an inspection aboard the Samjohn Solidarity.During the inspection, officials said they found 20 bricks of cocaine hidden in the vessel s anchor locker. The drugs have a street value of around $1 million.Authorities did not make any arrests.An investigation continues.
ANNAPOLIS, Md.
Federal agents and state officials seized 44 pounds of cocaine from a freighter anchored in the Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis.