US border patrol chief resigns abruptly amid string of exits by Trump immigration officials

The resignation comes weeks after the Washington Examiner reported that six current and former border patrol employees had accused Banks of regularly paying for sex with prostitutes during trips to Colombia and Thailand over more than a decade, and bragging about it to colleagues...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/14/us-border-patrol-chief-resigns  

CBP officer charged with assault over treatment of protester outside Colorado ICE facility | PBS News

Court documents allege that Rice committed third-degree assault by causing bodily injury to Stagi, but the documents don't describe how she was injured or make mention of a chokehold. Rice also is charged with criminal mischief for allegedly damaging Stagi's cellphone...

 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/cbp-officer-charged-with-assault-over-treatment-of-protester-outside-colorado-ice-facility

Mass Arrests by Trump's ICE, CBP Repeatedly Fail Under Scrutiny — ProPublica

Protesters Detained: ProPublica and FRONTLINE found more than 300 people who were arrested during immigration sweeps and accused of crimes like assaulting or interfering with law enforcement. Cases 

Collapse Under Scrutiny: Over and over, cases against protesters fell apart, often because statements made by the arresting officers were debunked by video footage. 

Chilling Effect: Experts said arrests, even without convictions, can quash dissent. “I don’t want to be assaulted again. I don’t want to wind up back in federal prison,” a protester said...

 https://www.propublica.org/article/caught-in-crackdown-ice-cbp-doj-trump-arrests-convictions 

New York Is Investigating the Death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam – Mother Jones

AG Letitia James will head an "independent assessment" of what happened to the Blind Rohingya refugee who Border Patrol dumped in Buffalo...

 https://www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/2026/03/new-york-tish-james-shah-alam-buffalo-cbp-death/

Nearly blind refugee abandoned by US border patrol found dead in Buffalo

Investigation under way after man was dropped off five miles from home but family wasn't notified, officials say…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/25/border-patrol-refugee-buffalo

 

DHS’s account of two Venezuelans shot by border patrol falls apart in court: ‘A smear campaign’

"The federal government cannot be trusted. Our default position should be skepticism and understanding they lie very regularly," said Sameer Kanal, a Portland city councilor. "There's a playbook of demonizing people … and claiming vehicles were used as 'weapons.' We see a pattern of victim-blaming, and it's important we push back, because it's propaganda."…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/02/portland-venezuelans-shot-border-patrol-court

 

Fact-check: Trump officials’ statements about Alex Pretti’s fatal shooting by Border Patrol agent - PolitiFact

With many questions remaining unanswered, here's how Trump administration officials' explanations square with available information, as of mid-day Jan. 26…

https://www.politifact.com/article/2026/jan/26/fact-check-Trump-official-Noem-Alex-Pretti-death/ 

 

DOJ charges man shot by Border Patrol agents in Portland with aggravated assault - POLITICO

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) accused President Donald Trump of "clearly inflaming violence" by deploying federal immigration agents to the city, and Portland Mayor Keith Wilson called on the federal government to halt immigration enforcement operations in the city until more details about the shooting came clear. 

"We know what the federal government says happened here. There was a time when we could take them at their word. That time has long passed," Wilson said at a Thursday evening press conference…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/12/doj-charges-man-shot-border-patrol-agents-portland-aggravated-assault-00722537

 

Border patrol chief reprimanded for lying claims shots were fired at immigration officers in Chicago

"Mr Bovino and the Department of Homeland Security claimed that he had been hit by a rock in the head before throwing the tear gas, but video evidence disproves this. And he ultimately admitted he was not hit until after he threw the tear gas," Ellis said on Thursday, according to ABC News…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/08/border-patrol-gregory-bovino-chicago

 

Trump authorizes national guard deployment to Chicago, White House says, as border patrol there shoots woman

The Democratic Illinois governor, JB Pritzker, said the guard had received notice from the Pentagon early in the day. He called the move unnecessary and "a manufactured performance – not a serious effort to protect public safety."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/04/woman-shot-border-patrol-chicago 

Gavin Newsom requests files on border patrol operation at news conference | California | The Guardian

"Trump's use of the military and federal law enforcement to try to intimidate his political opponents is yet another dangerous step towards authoritarianism," Newsom wrote on social media. "This is an attempt to advance a playbook from the despots he admires in Russia and North Korea. 

"The Trump administration needs to answer for this pathetic and cowardly behavior."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/18/trump-gavin-newsom-foia-border-patrol 

 

Active shooter killed outside Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas - The Washington Post

Authorities have not determined a motive. Mosqueda was a Michigan resident, according to his forms of identification and his vehicle tags and registration, Saenz said...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/07/07/texas-border-patrol-shooting-mcallen/

 

US citizen wrongfully arrested by border patrol in Arizona held for nearly 10 days

"Under the Trump administration's theory of the law, the government could have banished this U.S. citizen to a Salvadoran prison then refused to do anything to bring him back," Mark Joseph Stern, a legal analyst for Slate, wrote on Bluesky. "This is why the Constitution guarantees due process to all. Could it be more obvious?"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/20/us-citizen-jose-hermosillo-border-patrol

 

No One Is Happy About the Border. We Asked Mayorkas What Went Wrong. - The New York Times

"You correctly note that many migrants come for economic opportunity, and that they ultimately will not qualify for asylum. Wouldn't it be more orderly, and wouldn't it be responsible governance to be able to deliver a lawful pathway to fill what we have, which is a labor need, and cut the exploitative smugglers out and give individuals a path to arrive lawfully, safely, in an orderly way, to perform labor that we need? They can send remittances home. They can return home when their work is done. Isn't that an element of a workable immigration system?… 

I would say that our capabilities are tremendously constrained. We have an enormous case backlog in the immigration court. The immigration judges have a docket that is just simply overwhelmed. We need more immigration judges. We have more people claiming asylum now, some with merit and some without, but they make their claims, and we have a legal responsibility to adjudicate those claims. We need more asylum officers. The Southern border is 2,200 miles wide. We have relied every year since 2006 on supplemental personnel from the Department of Defense. We need more Border Patrol agents. We need laws that actually provide for the swift adjudication of claims and the prompt removal of those who do not qualify and the prompt grant of relief for those who do. To name just a few…"

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/magazine/alejandro-mayorkas-interview.html

Texans flock to social media to demand the state 'secede' after losing at Supreme Court - Raw Story

"All the people who ain't from here talking it's 'Time for Texas' to do whatever have no clue what they're talking about," he said. "Either we are a Constitutional Republic or we aren't. Abbott violated federal law and the Constitution. S-ck it. (also, Texas can't secede, so please, stfu)."

https://www.rawstory.com/texas-secede-border-ruling/

Federal agents may remove wire along Texas-Mexico border, Supreme Court says - The Washington Post

The Supreme Court sided with the Biden administration on Monday and cleared the way for border patrol agents to remove razor wire Texas officials installed along a busy stretch of the southern border until the legality of the barriers is resolved in court…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/22/supreme-court-texas-biden-border-razor-wire/

Biden administration sends Texas cease-and-desist letter on border access

A woman and two children died Friday while crossing the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-administration-sends-texas-cease-desist-letter-border-access-rcna133939

Texas officials block US border agents from helping three drowning migrants

Congressman blames the state after it took control of an area known as Shelby park and refused to let US border patrol enter

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/14/texas-three-migrants-drown-us-border-patrol?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Asylum seekers find refuge in volunteers where the US has failed

Guards didn't respond when she went to ask them questions, she said. "They look at you with, like, rage, disgust, contempt. So we're adrift here because you don't know who to ask."… 

Border patrol is claiming the people at these sites are not in detention, said Jacqueline Arellano, the director of US programs for Border Kindness, a non-profit migrant relief organization. "However, if you issued somebody a bracelet, and given them the parameters of where to be, and aren't giving them various instructions starting from the time they cross, and they know that they have to cooperate with border patrol in order to be compliant with the asylum process that they have a legal right to, then how is that not being detained?", she asked…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/27/us-mexico-border-asylum-open-air-detention-center-california

Ron DeSantis exaggerates number of migrants in US illegally under President Joe Biden - PolitiFact

DeSantis is conflating the number of times border patrol agents have encountered migrants at the border with the number of migrants who entered and remain in the country, an error also made by others who previously vied for the Republican presidential nomination…

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/oct/04/ron-desantis/ron-desantis-exaggerates-number-of-migrants-in-us/