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The checkpoints are described as "the third layer in the Border Patrol's three-layer strategy", following "line watch" and "roving patrol" operations near the border. According to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, [2] Border Patrol agents at checkpoints have legal authority that agents do not have when patrolling areas away from the ...
The Howland-Baker exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is a 400 nautical-mile diameter area protected by the U.S. Coast Guard. [5] The Howland-Baker EEZ has 425,700 km 2; [6] by comparison, California has 423,970 km 2. Howland Island was the area that Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan were trying to reach in 1937
A California Border Protection Station on Interstate 15 at Yermo, circa 2013. After a newer station was built, this station was demolished in 2018. California Border Protection Stations (CBPS) are 16 checkpoints maintained by the California Department of Food and Agriculture along the state's land borders with Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona ...
An emotional family reunion shows the complexities of the immigration debate
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U.S. Border Patrol agents encountered nearly 220 people on Monday, a sharp decline from more than 1,800 on the same day last year. As part of President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration ...
Jonathan Richards was promoted to the Patrol Agent in Charge of the Santa Teresa, New Mexico Border Patrol Station soon after the incident. [71] On January 19, 2009, President Bush commuted the sentences of both Ramos and Compean, effectively ending their prison term on March 20, 2009, [72] and they were released on February 17, 2009. [73]
The identity of the agent, who was assigned to the U.S. Border Patrol’s Swanton Sector, was not immediately released. The agent was shot at 3:15 p.m. on the interstate in Orleans County, a small community of 27,000 residents in the rural and remote Northeast Kingdom section of Vermont that straddles the Canadian border.