Homeland Security partners with airline pilot union to combat human trafficking
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Blue Campaign announced a new partnership with the world’s largest airline pilot union, the Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l (ALPA), along with the Department More...
Read this before you ship your belongings to Australia
Now that you have made the big decision to relocate to Australia, the next step is planning your move and putting the wheels in motion. This involves making the arrangements for your lifestyle change, and more importantly, More...
Immigration crisis: Arizona border patrol arrests 450 illegals crossing the border in two days
Border Patrol agents assigned to Yuma Sector apprehended over 400 illegal aliens who surrendered to them Tuesday and Wednesday, including two huge groups of Central American nationals totaling 82 and 83 subjects. Just More...
Colorado man, Alexander Perez sentenced to 20 years in prison in child porn case
A Colorado man was sentenced Thursday to serve 20 years in federal prison, followed by 20 years on supervised release, for producing child pornography. This sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Jason R. Dunn, More...
Houston: Customs and Border Patrol seize Khapra beetles, one of the ‘worst invasive species’ dangerous to US food supply
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agriculture specialists intercepted Khapra beetles at Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH), Aug. 31. CBP agriculture specialists had a busy day at the end of August when they More...
Minnesota: Toys with high lead levels and counterfeit dolls seized at International Falls Port
In two separate incidents, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Field Operations officers working at the International Falls Port of Entry targeted a pair of rail containers prior to their arrival in Ranier More...
Texas: Border patrol rescues over 60 illegal aliens inside ‘refrigerated tractor trailer’
Border Patrol agents assigned to the Border Patrol checkpoint on Interstate Highway 35, north of Laredo, Texas, rescued 62 illegal aliens from a refrigerated tractor-trailer. Border Patrol agents rescued 62 illegal More...
Customs and Border Protection nabs ‘destructive Asian Gypsy Moth’ eggs in Baltimore
A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) laboratory confirmed August 17 that three egg masses that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agriculture specialists discovered on a vehicle transport ship August 2 More...
Florida man, Theodore Symonds, sentences to 17 years for traveling to Dominican Republican to have sex with minors
A Florida man was sentenced Thursday to more than 17 years in prison and 30 years of supervised release after pleading guilty to traveling to the Dominican Republic for engaging in illicit sexual conduct with minors. More...
Audit: DHS issued citizenship to deported illegal immigrants from ‘special interest countries’
In the latest of many gaffes at the mammoth agency created after 9/11 to keep the nation safe, at least 858 illegal immigrants with deportation orders were mistakenly granted U.S. citizenship. It gets better; the More...
Leila Abdelrazaq, Gabriel Schivone, Leslie Mcafee caught sketching, ‘surveilling’ Mexican border, security
A Middle Eastern woman was caught surveilling a U.S. port of entry on the Mexican border holding a sketchbook with Arabic writing and drawings of the facility and its security system, federal law enforcement sources More...
Two Romanian women arrested for smuggling rare, endangered iguanas in tube socks
Customs officers at Britain’s Heathrow Airport got a big surprise as the discovered several rare iguanas in tube socks, authorities reported. Thirteen rare, endangered San Salvador Rock Iguanas were found inside More...
Customs agents seize over 35,000 rubber toys due to a potential hazard to children
Image/U.S. Customs and Border Protection Have you ever heard of phthalate? Can you even pronounce it? It’s because of this banned chemical that 35,712 Chinese-made Santas, Snowmen, Gingerbread men, Reindeer More...
