The change, set to take effect in September 2026, will replace the permit-based system with a telephone reporting procedure.

LA Mayor Karen Bass responded to the historic surge in Latino Border Patrol recruitment as applications jump 70%. Over half of southern agents are Hispanic.

In the desert of New Mexico, under wide open skies, hundreds of trainees gather to hear from Border Patrol chiefs as they join an agency with an expanded role and new policies under the Trump administration.

Los Angeles Democratic Mayor Karen Bass expressed disappointment and concern Friday with Hispanics joining Border Patrol – arguing they’re only doing it for the paycheck. “Well, in a way, I think it’s sad,” Bass said of a CNN report on Border Patrol’s new recruits, many of which are Hispanic.

Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks breaks down the sharp decline in illegal crossings, pointing to stricter enforcement and a shift in policy under President Donald Trump.

EXCLUSIVE — Border Patrol agents spent much of 2025 enforcing immigration laws inside the United States, far from the nation’s borders with Canada and Mexico. Michael Banks, the Border Patrol’s national chief,

Rep. Jasmine Crockett claimed in an interview this week that the Trump administration may be lying about the record-low number of border crossings happening on its watch.

On the first day of his second term in office, President Donald Trump issued multiple executive orders, followed by multiple policy changes, that in one year

Death at the Border is an HBO documentary revisiting the 2010 death of Anastasio Hernández-Rojas and the investigation into Border Patrol conduct.

Watch the complete press briefing from the San Diego–Tijuana border wall as White House Border Czar Tom Homan, alongside U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney S. Scott, addresses the media with key updates.

The commander of the Trump administration’s Border Patrol immigration crackdown said in a social media post Saturday (Dec. 27) that a government vehicle was struck in Slidell by a Honduran woman driving in the United States illegally.