Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are racing to hire 10,000 agents, lowering standards and training for recruits.

The southern border is essentially closed for the first time that I can recall. This was accomplished by executive orders, and freeing up our Border Patrol agents to do the job they were hired to do.

A Border Patrol agent looks on as a family from Colombia is detained and escorted to a bus by federal agents following an appearance at immigration court Monday, July 14, 2025, in San Antonio. (AP ...

De la Torre, a 25-year Border Patrol veteran, was named in mid-November as the new San Diego sector chief. He began his ...

Past hiring sprees by the Border Patrol have proved challenging. One recruitment push resulted in a wave of high-profile corruption cases. Along with the new ICE agents, Trump hopes to hire 3,000 new ...

Border Patrol agents and Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers who have worked together side by side for two decades are increasingly at odds in a battle to see who can better carry out ...

Squinting, his thumbs hitched into the waist of his beige chinos, Brandon Judd stood next to Donald Trump, prepared to plant a sloppy one. It was February 2024, and Trump was in Texas to mercilessly ...

Border Patrol agents raided a Home Depot and other locations in Sacramento on Thursday in what appeared to be a heavily orchestrated operation intended to send a message that the Trump administration ...

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — In 2006, top U.S. Border Patrol officials were asked how long it would take to hire 6,000 agents, a roughly 50% increase at the time. Michael Fisher, then deputy chief in San ...