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CORRECTS TO JOAN MALAND INSTEAD OF MUSSA - This undated image courtesy of Joan Maland shows U.S. Border Patrol agent David Maland and his K9 partner, Cora. David Maland was killed Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, following a traffic stop in Vermont. (David Maland/Joan Maland via AP)

Border Patrol agent killed in Vermont worked at the Pentagon during 9/11, family says

The family of a U.S. Border Patrol agent who was killed in Vermont during a traffic stop near the Canadian border says he was a military veteran who worked security duty at the Pentagon during the time of the Sept. 11 attacks.
 
Yender Romero, from Venezuela, uses his cell phone to listen to news on the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump, at a migrant tent camp outside La Soledad church in Mexico City, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Border app that became ‘a salvation’ for migrants to legally enter the US may end

 
In this March 30, 2021, file photo, young minors lie inside a pod at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley run by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in Donna, Texas. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, Pool, File)

US border facilities for migrant children are improving but still need work, court monitor says

 
Retired U.S. Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott, testifies during a House Committee Homeland Security hearing, June 14, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Trump taps forceful ally of hard-line immigration policies to head Customs and Border Protection

 
Jaime Ruiz, spokesman for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, shows off fake guitars during a U.S. Customs and Border Protection media conference in Carson, Calif., on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024. (Jeff Gritchen/The Orange County Register via AP)

More than 3,000 fake Gibson guitars seized at Los Angeles port

 

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Authorities say a US border patrol agent has been shot and killed in Vermont south of border

A U.S. Border Patrol agent was killed Monday in northern Vermont south of the Canadian border, authorities said. The Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement that the agent was killed in the line of duty, although it did not provide details.
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Trump ends CBP One, a Biden-era border app that gave legal entry to nearly 1 million migrants with online appointments

 
FILE - Border patrol agent Pete Bidegain looks from a hilltop on the U.S. side of the US-Mexico border in Nogales, Ariz. on Tuesday, June 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, Pool, File)

Border arrests are expected to rise slightly in August but are hovering near 4-year lows

 
FILE - The Apple logo is illuminated at a store in the city center of Munich, Germany, Dec. 16, 2020. A potential redesign of two Apple Watch models, the Series 9 and Ultra 2, that would exclude the blood oxygen sensor has been approved by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, according to a Monday, Jan. 15, 2024, court filing by Masimo, a Southern California company pursuing the patent claim. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

Apple plans to remove sensor from some watch models depending on how a court rules in patent dispute

 
Migrants cross the Rio Grande into the U.S. from Mexico behind Concertina wire and a sign warning that it's dangerous and illegal to cross, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024, in Eagle Pass, Texas. According to U.S. officials, a Mexican enforcement surge has contributed to a sharp drop in illegal entries to the U.S. in recent weeks. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

The US sees a drop in illegal border crossings after Mexico increases enforcement

 
FILE - The border crossing sits closed Dec. 15, 2023, at Lukeville, Ariz. U.S. authorities say the crossing on the most direct route from Phoenix to the nearest beaches will reopen Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024, one month after it closed in response to a large migrant influx. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Arizona border crossing with Mexico to reopen a month after migrant influx forced closure

 
FILE - The Union Pacific International Railroad Bridge is seen behind concertina wire, Sept. 22, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. The federal government on Friday, Dec. 22, reopened railroad crossings in two Texas border towns, including Eagle Pass, days after the shuttering of rail operations there disrupted trade and caused outrage. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Railroad operations resume after 5-day closure in 2 Texas border towns

 
FILE - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks at the National Palace in Mexico City, Jan. 10, 2023. Lopez Obrador said on Dec. 22, 2023 that he is willing to help out with a surge of migrants that led to the closure of border crossings with the U.S., but he wants the U.S. government to open talks with Cuba and send more development aid to migrants' home countries. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

Mexico’s president is willing to help with border migrant crush but wants US to open talks with Cuba

 
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre listens as National Security Council spokesman John Kirby speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Top US officials to visit Mexico for border talks as immigration negotiations with Congress continue

 
FILE - The Union Pacific International Railroad Bridge is seen behind concertina wire, Friday, Sept. 22, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. The federal government has closed railroad crossings in two Texas border towns, including Eagle Pass, raising concerns about the potential impact on trade and goods available to American consumers. Carriers and politicians have decried the move that closes two of the six available railroad systems between Mexico and the U.S. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Two railroad crossings are temporarily closed in Texas. Will there be a significant impact on trade?

 
FILE - President Joe Biden, second from left, looks towards a large "Welcome to Mexico" sign that is hung over the Bridge of the Americas as he tours the El Paso port of entry, a busy port of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border, in El Paso Texas, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Venezuelans become largest nationality for illegal border crossings as September numbers surge

 

Federal agents in Puerto Rico seize $35 million worth of cocaine, arrest 3 after boat runs aground

 
FILE - Crews construct a section of border wall in San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020, in Douglas, Ariz. Construction of the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border under former President Donald Trump toppled untold numbers of saguaro cactuses in Arizona, put endangered ocelots at risk in Texas and disturbed Native American burial grounds, Congress' official watchdog said Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

Congressional watchdog describes border wall harm, says agencies should work together to ease damage

 
A migrant prepares a meal at a shelter encampment in the border town of Matamoros, Mexico, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023. Mexico’s immigration agency and a Catholic aid group have opened a temporary outdoor shelter for migrants living in camps to move to, as Mexico’s National Institute for Migration wants this large camp in Matamoros dismantled. (AP Photo/Jacky Muniello)

Mexican border city struggles to find space for migrants even with a new shelter

 
Aaron Smith, President and CEO of the Offshore Marine Service Association, center, peers through binoculars at ships installing the South Fork Wind project, as Capt. Rick Spaid, left, pilots the vessel Jones Act Enforcer, Tuesday, July 11, 2023, off the coast of Rhode Island. The trade association that represents the offshore service industry is going to great lengths to make sure that jobs go to Americans as the U.S. offshore wind industry ramps up. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

American boat patrols waters around new offshore wind farms to protect jobs

 
U.S. asylum-seekers being returned by U.S. authorities under the so-called Remain in Mexico program are escorted by a Mexican migration agent as they walk back into Nuevo, Laredo Mexico, across the international bridge from Laredo, Texas, Wednesday, July 10, 2019. The Biden administration has stopped taking appointments via its mobile phone app from asylum seekers in a notoriously dangerous and corrupt Mexican border city amid signs migrants who used it were being targeted for extortion.(AP Photo/Salvador Gonzalez)

US: Online asylum appointments halted at 1 Texas crossing because of Mexican city’s safety woes

 
FILE - Migrants congregate on the banks of the Rio Grande at the U.S. border with Mexico, Dec. 20, 2022, where members of the Texas National Guard cordoned off a gap in the U.S. border wall. The Biden administration has stopped taking appointments via its mobile phone app from asylum seekers in a notoriously dangerous and corrupt Mexican border city amid signs migrants who used it were being targeted for extortion.(AP Photo/Morgan Lee, File)

US halts online asylum appointments at Texas crossing after extortion warnings