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The drugs, worth an estimated $312 million, were seized by five separate Coast Guard cutter crews. -
The boy, a U.S. citizen, was spotted walking with two duffel bags along the secondary border wall in Otay Mesa. Border Patrol agents stopped a similar smuggling attempt just over two years ago. -
Soaring homicide rates in Mexico. How America contributes to the problem. Overlooked San Diego rape kits yield DNA matches in the federal database. Dockless scooters are an economic boom, but are they really beneficial to the environment? -
The effort called “Operation Frozen,” which will increase southbound inspections of cars at the border, comes after a deadly shootout last week in the city of Culiacan, Mexico. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe Mexican city of Culiacan lived under drug cartel terror for 12 hours as gang members forced the government to free a drug lord's son, but in many parts of Mexico, the government ceded the battle to the gangs long ago. -
A new study from San Diego State University finds that stricter border enforcement creates a greater climate for Customs and Border Protection corruption. -
A Border Patrol officials said the presence of the minors inside the vehicles during the failed drug-smuggling runs as a would-be "diversion" and praised the involved agents for foiling attempts to use children "as decoys to benefit transnational criminal organizations." -
The ACLU claims that the government has violated a June 2018 injunction that put a stop to family separations, and has separated a thousand more families since then. -
Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Tuesday approved the use of $3.6 billion in funding from military construction projects to build 175 miles of President Donald Trump's wall along the Mexican border. -
Prosecutors said that as an 18-year-old high school senior, the young man recruited fellow students from his school to strap drugs onto their bodies, then cross the border into the U.S. at either the San Ysidro or Otay Mesa Ports of Entry.
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