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Game Wardens Seize Nearly $4 Million Worth of Marijuana

A total of 409 bundles of marijuana weighing 4,719 pounds were recovered.

2013/04/05

A private jet. (credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Man Sentenced For Human Smuggling Via Plane To Texas

A Mexican man has been sentenced to prison for trying to smuggle illegal immigrants onto a charter flight bound for a major Texas city.

2012/11/29

U.S. Border Patrol Agent Accused Of Killing Mexican Citizen

A U.S. Border Patrol spokesman says federal officials are investigating after the Mexican government said a Mexican citizen was killed when an agent patrolling the Rio Grande fired his weapon across the border.

2012/09/06

A U.S. Border Patrol agent looks for footprints from illegal immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. (credit: Getty Images/John Moore)

Agency To Explain Border Fence Construction

Officials from a U.S. agency that monitors the U.S.-Mexico border are to explain why they’re allowing construction of border fence segments in the Rio Grande flood plain.

2012/08/29

U.S. Border Patrol patch. (Associated Press photo)

Border Balloons Show Surveillance Potential

High-tech balloons equipped with cameras, tethered far above the Texas-Mexico border, have already assisted Border Patrol agents less than two weeks into their testing.

2012/08/23

Parked next to a section of the border fence, a Border Patrol agent watches an area of the U.S.-Mexico border along the Rio Grande River May 26, 2010, near Hidalgo. (credit: Getty Images/Scott Olson)

Government Settles Texas Border Fence Land Case

The U.S. government has paid almost $1 million for part of a South Texas nature preserve taken for the border fence, drawing to a close nearly four years of litigation in one of the project’s highest-profile condemnation cases.

2012/08/06

Border Patrol Gets First New Strategy In 8 Years

The U.S. Border Patrol unveiled its first national strategy in eight years. The new approach took more than two years to develop, and is more targeted at constantly evolving threats.

2012/05/08

State Lawmaker Says Mexican Border Isn’t War Zone

A Texas state senator took issue with a top agricultural official’s characterization of the entire Mexican border as a war zone run by drug smugglers.

2012/04/13

Napolitano Reviews Texas Border Operations

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will spend a second day reviewing border protection operations in the Rio Grande Valley.

2012/02/21

Border Patrol Aims To Stop Revolving-Door Policy

The U.S. Border Patrol is moving to halt a revolving-door policy of sending migrants back to Mexico without any punishment.

2012/01/17

National Guard Presence At Border To Be Reduced

When the number of National Guard troops stationed at the Mexican border is reduced next year, their duties are expected to shift from being on the border to flying above it.

2011/12/14