Latest "Customs and Border Patrol" stories

Why were active-duty forces picked over Guard to defend the border? Capabilities, Pentagon says

Pentagon faces questions over the roles and limits U.S. forces will have when migrants reach the border.

By Tara Copp

4 years ago

Border mission doesn’t fit Mattis’ focus on ‘lethality’

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has left no doubt that his top priority as leader of the military is making it more “lethal” — better at war and more prepared for it — and yet nothing about the military’s new mission at the U.S.-Mexico border advances that goal. Some argue it detracts from it.

By Robert Burns, The Associated Press and Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press

4 years ago