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San Diego Field Office encourages travelers to plan ahead as Easter holiday travel begins

San Diego Field Office encourages travelers to plan ahead as Easter holiday travel begins


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CBP’s Spring 2023 Virtual Career Expo aims to bring more women into law enforcement

CBP’s Spring 2023 Virtual Career Expo aims to bring more women into law enforcement



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Concerned Citizens Lead to Rescue of Shoeless Woman with Severe Frostbite Injury

Concerned Citizens Lead to Rescue of Shoeless Woman with Severe Frostbite Injury


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CBP Asks Travelers to Get Ready for Spring Season Arrivals in the Caribbean

CBP Asks Travelers to Get Ready for Spring Season Arrivals in the Caribbean


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CBP officers seize an estimated $135k in cocaine at the port of Ysleta

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officers working at the Ysleta Port of Entry intercepted 15.65 pounds of cocaine on two separate unrelated incidents last week.


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CBP Officers Seize over $7 Million in Methamphetamine at the Pharr International Bridge

U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations (OFO) at the Pharr International Bridge cargo facility intercepted $7,400,000 worth of alleged methamphetamine concealed in a shipment of charcoal.


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U.S. Border Patrol makes over 250 apprehensions in less than 13 hours

U.S. Border Patrol Agents assigned to the San Diego Sector Imperial Beach Station encountered 290 individuals illegally crossing into the U.S., from over 30 different countries, in less than 13 hours.


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Laredo Port of Entry Prepares and Implements Facilitation Measures Considering Increased Holiday Traffic

As the nation approaches Holy Week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Office of Field Operations (OFO) Laredo Port of Entry will soon begin to process larger volumes of international travelers to the United States through the South Texas border.


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CBP Announces Temporary Expansion of Hours at 4 Northern Border Ports of Entry

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced today that it will begin a 120-day temporary expansion of hours at four northern border ports of entry (POE), April 1.


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Laredo Port of Entry Prepares and Implements Facilitation Measures Considering Increased Holiday Traffic

As the nation approaches Holy Week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Office of Field Operations (OFO) Laredo Port of Entry will soon begin to process larger volumes of international travelers to the United States through the South Texas border.


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Dangerous prohibited items seized by Minnesota CBP before they enter U.S.

At an Express Consignment Operations (ECO) hub near Minneapolis – Saint Paul International Airport (MSP), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agriculture specialists intercepted three shipments containing dangerous prohibited items arriving from overseas.


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RGV agents find a missing juvenile

Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector Border Patrol agents locate a missing juvenile and seize $64,000.


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Philadelphia CBP Officers Seize 648 Counterfeit Samsung Smartphone Digitizers

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized a shipment of counterfeit smartphone digitizers on St. Patrick’s Day so that unsuspecting consumers wouldn’t risk their luck at getting ripped off.


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The Long Blue Line - 20 Years OIF: This is the Coast Guard Cutter Walnut's story about deploying to the Persian Gulf for buoy tender operations

Coast Guard members and units, and its predecessor services, have served with distinction in every major American conflict. Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), which began in 2003, proved no exception to this rule.


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The Long Blue Line: The Baker Twins—Re-searching the first female Coasties - or were they?

Who were the Baker Twins? Were they truly among the first uniformed women in the Coast Guard? Did they even serve in the military during World War I?



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Retirees, you may be entitled to more pay

Attention retirees! You may be entitled to higher pay as a result of an expansion in the National Defense Appropriations Act (NDAA).


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The Long Blue Line - 20 Years OIF: “Tip of the Spear” Coast Guard Cutter Adak combat operations in Operation Iraqi Freedom

The maritime conditions of Iraq and the Persian Gulf can greatly limit how large naval vessels and warships operate. Because of this as well as the U.S. Navy’s lack of in-shore patrol craft, a large part of the Navy’s request for Coast Guard assistance in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) centered on the service’s shallow-draft patrol boats.