There’s a startling follow up to my report from last November about a group of citizens from Pakistan and Afghanistan who illegally snuck across the Mexican border into Arizona three days after the Paris attacks and four days after a double suicide bombing in Beirut, Lebanon. Now, seven months later, U.S. Customs and Border Protection […]
Border Patrol
Who controls our southern border? Us or them?
Multiple law enforcement officials have told me that the U.S. is no longer calling the shots on our southern border between Arizona and Mexico. They say Mexico's drug cartels decide who crosses. Sunday on Full Measure, we travel to the border to show you America's erratic approach to border control. In regions heavily trafficked by the […]
Afghan, Pakistanis caught illegally entering U.S. at Mexican border, say agents
Updates: Border Patrol today confirmed the report issuing this statement: “U.S. Border Patrol agents in Sonoita, Arizona, apprehended five Pakistani nationals and one Afghan national Monday. Agents also arrested two smugglers accompanying the group. As a standard procedure, agents processed the six individuals and checked their identities against numerous law enforcement and national security related databases. […]
Terror's southern border access
It's a good time to revisit a report I did for CBS News Sunday Morning Jan. 13, 2013 about the fear FBI and Border Patrol agents express: that terrorists can easily slip in across the southern U.S. border. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/over-the-line-fighting-corruption-on-our-border/ (Excerpt) ...But investigators say what worries them even more is the serious threat to national security […]
Brian Terry Murder Suspect Extradited From Mexico
Just a coincidence that on the day it's announced that a federal court has ordered the Justice Department to initiate the process of turning over withheld Fast and Furious documents, the Justice Department announces another defendant in Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry's murder has been extradited to face charges. According to a Justice Department news release, Ivan […]
