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FDA, CBP seize $86.5M worth of unauthorized e-cigarettes

September 13, 2025 -

In a sweeping enforcement effort, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have seized 4.7 million units of unauthorized e-cigarette products, valued at approximately $86.5 million, the largest single seizure of its kind. The operation, focused on shipments entering through Chicago, represents a central move in the U.S. government's intensified strategy to halt the flow of illegal vaping items ...

CBP reports record-high BORDER ENCOUNTERS in January 2024

February 20, 2024 -

As per data released by CBP on Feb. 13, Border Patrol agents reported more than 176,000 border encounters in January 2024. This number eclipsed the 157,358 border encounters recorded in January 2023, according to the Epoch Times.

Back in December 2023, Border Patrol tallied 249,785 arrests on the Mexican side – up 31 percent from the 191,112 arrests in November 2023 and up 13 percent from the 222,018 arrests in December 2022. According to CBP, this ...

CBP: Record number of ILLEGALS arrested at southwestern US border

September 26, 2022 -

The number of arrests along the southwestern border in a year has never surpassed the two-million mark before. CBP Commissioner Chris Magnus attributed the sudden spike of arrests to illegal immigrants fleeing the failing communist regimes in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba.

"Those fleeing repressive regimes pose significant challenges for processing and removal," Magnus said in a news release. "More individuals encountered at the border without a legal basis ...

CBP One app shutdown as mass deportations of illegal aliens begins

January 28, 2025 -

(Article by Tyler Durden republished from ZeroHedge.com)

The administration also acted to sabotage any border state that tried to take matters into their own hands.  Texas, for example, faced lawsuits and interference from the National Guard because their border barriers were proving too effective.  Governor Greg Abbott managed to reduce border encounters in Texas by 70% despite Biden's attempts at sabotage.  Biden would later try to claim credit for that reduction in ...

Trump Administration shutters the CBP One app, designed to streamline migrant invasion

January 22, 2025 -

No more streamlining migrants into the U.S.

In a swift and decisive move, the Trump administration shut down the CBP One app, a Biden-era tool designed to facilitate legal entry for migrants at the southern U.S. border. The app’s termination, announced hours after Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president on January 20, 2025, underscores his administration’s hardline stance on immigration. Trump declared a national emergency at the border, ...

Report: CBP has apprehended more than 13,000 “special interest aliens” since October

December 22, 2023 -

According to CBP, these SIAs come from various nations that have openly expressed support of Hamas – formally the Islamic Resistance Movement. The said aliens hail from nations such as Turkey, Afghanistan, Sudan, Syria Iran, Yemen and Russia. Concerning, however, is the fact that most of these SIAs have been released into the U.S. to pursue asylum claims.

The influx of Turkish citizens is notable, with CBP encountering almost 4,000 along the southwest ...

95.8% of ILLEGAL ALIENS using CBP One app released into the U.S.

October 27, 2023 -

That translates to more than 266,000 out of more than 278,000 illegals who requested appointments through the CBP One app from Jan. 12 to Sept. 30, based on documents provided to the committee by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

"[DHS] Secretary [Alejandro] Mayorkas has utterly abused the CBP One app in his quest for open borders. These numbers are proof that Mayorkas' operation is a smokescreen for the mass release of individuals into this ...

CBP officers find cocaine, meth hidden in children’s board game bound for London

August 10, 2025 -

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in Philadelphia have intercepted a shipment of narcotics concealed inside a children's board game destined for London.

On July 30, during a routine inspection of outbound air cargo, CBP officers flagged a suspicious return package being shipped from Atlanta, Georgia, to London, England, labeled as a "board game." Upon further examination, officers discovered that the box, labeled ...

CBP officer sentenced to 23 years in jail for BRIBERY and facilitating TRAFFICKING

November 04, 2024 -

On Oct. 25, a federal court in San Diego slapped 42-year-old Leonard Darnell George with a 23-year prison term. According to a statement by federal prosecutors, George used his official position as a CBP agent to allow illegal drugs and migrants into the country. He had been earlier convicted by a federal jury in June, according to The Epoch Times.

The now-convicted officer accepted bribes from two drug trafficking organizations in exchange for allowing vehicles ...

CBP seizes four tons of cocaine in NARCO-SUB off southwest Mexico coast

August 07, 2023 -

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), led by the Air and Marine Operations, recently intercepted a "narco-sub" with approximately four tons of cocaine worth $108 million off the southwest Mexico coast.

For the past five years, drug smugglers have been using narco-subs to discreetly transport large quantities of narcotics. In fact, Colombian officials revealed that they seized 111 narco-subs involved in drug trafficking from 2018 to 2021. It's ...

Media, pundits silent as Biden administration illegally holds unaccompanied migrants children, CBP says

March 03, 2021 -

(Article by Pat Droney republished from LawEnforcementToday.com)

Of course, when Trump was president, they were referred to as "cages."

Now, the exact same facilities are referred to as holding or "overflow" facilities and the media has been largely silent.

https://twitter.com/Yeti1181/status/1364342325581914114

In fact, according to the CBP union, the Biden administration is illegally holding the children longer than legally allowed, according ...

Disturbing photos show migrants in overcrowded Texas CBP facility where Biden administration banned journalists

March 25, 2021 -

In the leaked photos, migrants – many of them children – can be seen crowded into the makeshift quarters as growing numbers of migrants are continuing to flood in across the nation’s southwest border and the current facilities are struggling to accommodate all of them. The migrants are being held in clear pens that resemble cages, and many of them are seen lying down on plastic mattresses, sleeping shoulder to shoulder and covering themselves in foil blankets. Others can be seen ...

A new dawn at the border: Trump administration shuts down CBP One, begins mass deportations

January 28, 2025 -

In a decisive move to secure the nation's southern border, the Trump administration has shut down the controversial CBP One app and launched a series of mass deportations, marking a significant reversal of the previous administration's policies. This action comes as a welcome relief to many Americans who have long been concerned about the surge of illegal immigration under the Biden administration.The fall of CBP One: A symbol ...

CBP agent warns Biden’s immigration executive order will NORMALIZE arrival of 2 million migrants annually

June 11, 2024 -

The executive order, titled "A Proclamation on Securing the Border," was signed on June 4. The order, which seeks to address the surging numbers of migrant entries into the United States, stipulates that asylum applications will be denied when the seven-day average of migrant apprehensions at the southwest border exceeds 2,500 per day.

However, the CBP source, who spoke anonymously due to a lack of authorization to discuss the matter publicly, argues that this ...

CBP declines FOIA request to reveal nationalities of illegal immigrants on the FBI terror watchlist

May 20, 2024 -

According to Bill Melugin, a Fox News reporter who has been working to expose the border crisis over the past years, the CBP refused to disclose any information about illegal immigrants on the Terrorist Screening Dataset (TSDS) of the FBI due to privacy and law enforcement sensitivity.

"The privacy interests of the individuals in the records you have requested outweigh any minimal public interest in disclosure of the information. Any private interest you may have ...

CBP agents blame lack of DETERRENTS for illegals as major reason for U.S. BORDER CRISIS

December 12, 2023 -

The nine agents testified before investigators on the House Homeland Security and Oversight Committees during a five-month period earlier this year. Supervisory and line agents assigned to duty at key border stations from California to Texas participated in the probe. Excerpts of the interview transcripts were later provided to the Epoch Times.

It is worth noting that while both Democratic and Republican lawmakers joined the interviews, only the Republicans provided ...

CBP source reveals DHS has no cohesive enforcement strategy to address migrant influx in Texas

September 25, 2023 -

The CBP source further divulged to Breitbart Texas that every Border Patrol processing facility has been packed to more than three times its capacity and the only DHS directive they received was to "quickly process and release the migrants who made landfall in the Texas town to a non-government shelter." (Related: Migrant TSUNAMI: Eagle Pass declares STATE OF EMERGENCY as nearly 14K border crossers flood the city in less than two weeks – many more to come.)

"We ...

CBP reports 93% drop in child smuggling at U.S. border following targeted crackdown on illegal sponsors

September 08, 2025 -

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has overseen a staggering 93 percent drop in the smuggling of "Unaccompanied Alien Children" (UAC) across the southern U.S. border over the past year.

According to statistics released earlier by the CBP, the number of unaccompanied minors apprehended at the southern border plummeted from 7,501 in July 2024 to just 515 in July this year. The data, pulled from CBP's nationwide ...

Trump administration orders 1M migrants admitted via CBP One app to self-deport or face ban

April 11, 2025 -

The Trump administration has terminated the legal status of nearly one million migrants who entered the U.S. using the Biden-era CBP One app. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced the crackdown, framing it as a necessary step to address what she called the "worst border crisis in U.S. history."

The administration is urging affected individuals to "self-deport immediately" or face potential removal and a permanent bar from reentering ...

Biden used the CBP One App to fast-track unvetted illegal aliens through airports, bypassing TSA security

February 26, 2025 -

Key Points:

• The Biden administration revised TSA guidelines in February 2021 to allow illegal aliens to board flights without government-issued IDs.

• TSA agents used the CBP One app to snap photos of illegals and run biometric checks, bypassing traditional ID verification processes.

• The program prioritized reducing wait times over national security, cutting ID verification times from 13 minutes to under 2 minutes.

• Documents obtained ...