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The Border Patrol topic provides current news and information about ongoing border protection issues and challenges. The Border Patrol, along with hundreds of local agencies under whose jurisdiction that border falls, are responsible for protecting 8,000 miles of U.S. border, not including many thousands of miles of shoreline.
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News

Drug cartel threatens to kill an officer a day

Police in Mexico's most violent city were moved to guarded hotels for protection - Full Story

News

Border Patrol spending on overtime rising

Border Patrol spending on overtime rising

Border Patrol Deputy Chief Ronald D. Vitiello said patrolling the border can be an unpredictable job that requires longer hours from agents - Full Story

Columns

Are Zetas operating as police impersonators in the United States? PoliceOne Senior Editor Doug Wyllie - Editor's Corner

Are Zetas operating as police impersonators in the United States?

Whether or not Zetas are conducting paramilitary, police-impersonation operations here in the US, the incident in Houston is a watershed event indeed - Full Story

Columns

Drug wars: This isn't your mother's cartel Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith - Career Survival

Drug wars: This isn't your mother's cartel

Modern cartels pose one of the biggest threats to law enforcement not just on the southern border, but nationwide - Full Story

Exclusives

Justice for Border Patrol Agent Jesus Diaz?

Justice for Border Patrol Agent Jesus Diaz?

One can only guess what the jury’s findings might have been had they known about the “armed escort alert” received by the agents 24 hours earlier that escalated their awareness level. - Full Story

Photos

US northern border checks scaled back

US northern border checks scaled back

Routine bus, train and airport checks typically involved agents milling about and questioning people who appeared suspicious. Critics said the tactic violated travelers' civil liberties. (AP Image) Ordered to stop

Photos

Vt. trooper correct to detain immigrants

Vt. trooper correct to detain immigrants

A traffic stop and a subsequent protest prompted Gov. Peter Shumlin to ask whether Vermont State Police followed "bias-free" policing policies. Reported to Border Patrol

Exclusives

A Border Patrol Agent's life on the road

A Border Patrol Agent's life on the road

When you're a 'loaner' you can be on urban streets surrounded by millions on one day and the next day be deep in a canyon outnumbered 10-to-1 by rattlesnakes. - Full Story

Videos

Terror threat on the border

PoliceOne Senior Editor Doug Wyllie here... I've been howling about this issue for more than eight years — probably more like nine years — and I know I'm not alone. Law enforcers have been fighting this threat much longer than that. If you would like to add your voice to the column I'm writing about this for an upcoming PoliceOne Newsletter, please send me an email with your brief comment, as well as your name and agency.
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