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CBP One app, Kamala Harris and illegal immigrants illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

What is the CBP One app, and what does it do?

By Everett Piper

Migrants seeking asylum line up while waiting to be processed after crossing the border Wednesday, June 5, 2024, in San Diego, Calif. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia)

CBP continues careful watch on border crossings

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

This undated photo shows the mummified remains of four monkeys discovered and seized from luggage from a traveler who'd been to the Democratic Republic of Congo before arriving at Boston Logan Airport. (Customs and Border Protection via AP)

CBP dog sniffs out something unusual in passenger’s luggage — mummified monkeys

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A section of border fence in Brownsville, Texas, on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023. The Biden administration's plan to build new barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border calls for a "movable" design that frustrates both environmentalists and advocates of stronger border enforcement. (AP Photo/Valerie Gonzalez)

Congress should fund real border security, not a worldwide welfare state

By Simon Hankinson

Acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection Troy Miller, center, speaks during a news conference at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023, in San Diego. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced a new government-wide strategy that will target not only fentanyl but precursor materials used to make the synthetic opioid.(AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

U.S. government says it plans to go after legal goods tied to illegal fentanyl trade in new strategy

By Julie Watson - Associated Press

A body is wheeled out on a stretcher at Schemengees Bar and Grille, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023, in Lewiston, Maine. The restaurant was the site of one of the two mass shootings in Lewiston on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Live Updates | Officers at home of Maine shooting suspect’s relatives call for surrender

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U.S. Customs and Patrol Patrol agents sit along a section of the international border wall that runs through Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019 in Lukeville, Ariz. On Friday, Oct. 13, 2023, the Tohono O'odham Nation in southern Arizona blasted the decision by the U.S. Attorney's Office not to prosecute Border Patrol agents who shot and killed a member of the tribe, on May 18, after they were summoned by tribal police. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

Arizona tribe is protesting the decision not to prosecute Border Patrol agents for fatal shooting

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Confiscated shark fins are shown during a news conference, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020, in Doral, Fla. A spate of recent criminal indictments highlights how U.S. companies, taking advantage of a patchwork of federal and state laws, are supplying a market for fins that activists say is as reprehensible as the now-illegal trade in elephant ivory once was. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

Coast Guard stops Mexican vessel illegally shark-fishing in U.S. territorial waters

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Senegal's Foreign Minister Aissata Tall Sall, at the State Department in Washington, Friday, June 17, 2022. (Tasos Katopodis/Pool photo via AP)

U.S. officials shine spotlight on China’s repression of Uygur Muslims

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Illegal Immigration and the Border Crisis Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Biden’s worsening border policies

By Scott Walker

Anna Sorokin arrives for sentencing at New York State Supreme Court, in New York, May 9, 2019. Sorokin, the convicted swindler who claimed to be a German heiress to finance a posh lifestyle in New York, is making a new bid to fight deportation, her lawyer said Tuesday, March 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Fake heiress Anna Sorokin makes new bid to fight deportation

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An example of counterfeit COVID-19 vaccination cards recently seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Memphis, Tenn. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Customs and Border Protection)

Border Patrol takes on counterfeit COVID vaccination cards from China

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

Feds will pay $35K to two men stopped at Spokane bus station

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Vermont officials want more info on border surveillance plan

By WILSON RING - Associated Press

2 men on terrorism watch list stopped at U.S. border

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Private New Mexico camp preps to house migrant children

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN - Associated Press

Vermont official has privacy concerns about border towers

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In this photo provided by Paul Juarez, cereal and other foods line the shelves of Linda Tutt High School's student-led grocery store on Nov. 20, 2020, in Sanger, Texas. (Paul Juarez via AP)

Feds intercept $2.8 million worth of cocaine-coated corn flakes: CBP

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Suspect in 2016 Las Vegas killing arrested at Mexican border

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US customs agents find 1,400 pounds of marijuana at border

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