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The United States Border Patrol (USBP) is a federal law enforcement agency under the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and is responsible for securing the borders of the United States. According to its website as of 2022, its mission is to "Protect the American people, safeguard our borders, and enhance the nation’s economic ...
The United States Border Patrol operates 71 traffic checkpoints, including 33 permanent traffic checkpoints, near the Mexico–United States border. [1] [2] The stated primary purpose of these inspection stations is to deter illegal immigration and smuggling activities.
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 ...
U.S. Border Patrol agents opened the metal barrier on the U.S.-Mexico border near San Diego, California, on Thursday and processed migrants who had gathered there over the past week. Hundreds of ...
February 14, 1992. The Calexico West Port of Entry (formerly known simply as the Calexico Port of Entry, and sometimes called the "Downtown" port of entry) is one of two ports of entry in the Imperial Valley area of California. It is located in the business center of the Calexico - Mexicali metropolitan area that is divided by an international ...
The San Ysidro Port of Entry (aka San Ysidro Land Port of Entry or San Ysidro LPOE) [2] is the largest land border crossing between San Ysidro and Tijuana, and the fourth-busiest land border crossing in the world (second-busiest excluding the crossings between Mainland China and its two Special Administrative Regions) [3] with 70,000 northbound vehicles and 20,000 northbound pedestrians ...
Calexico East Port of Entry. The Calexico East Port of Entry is a border crossing point between the United States and Mexico. It connects the cities of Calexico, California and Mexicali, Baja California. It connects directly to California State Route 7. The east crossing was built in 1996 in an effort to divert traffic from the busy Calexico ...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The Office of Field Operations (OFO) is a federal law enforcement agency within the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) responsible for managing United States customs operations at 20 Field Operations offices, 328 ports of entry, and 16 pre-clearance stations in Canada, Ireland, the UAE, and the Caribbean.