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Feature Article: When S&T and HSWERX Partner, the Results Are Out of Sight

S&T and HSWERX recently brought industry partners together to showcase drone solutions in support of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Similar public-private partnerships are on the horizon for 2025. 

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Statement from Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas on the Biden-Harris Administration’s Securing the Border Final Rule

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas issued a statement on the Department of Homeland Security-Department of Justice joint final rule, following the joint interim final rule that the Departments issued in June. 

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FACT SHEET: Joint DHS-DOJ Final Rule Issued to Restrict Asylum Eligibility for Those Who Enter During High Encounters at the Southern Border

The Biden-Harris Administration took additional steps to implement the action announced in June to strengthen border security.

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Declaración Conjunta: Mecanismo Tripartito Sobre Migración Irregular

El Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de la República de Colombia, Luis Gilberto Murillo, el Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de la República de Panamá, Javier Martínez-Acha Vásquez y el Secretario de Seguridad Nacional de los Estados Unidos, Alejandro N. Mayorkas y sus delegaciones, reunidos en la ciudad de Cartagena de Indias, en el marco de la Tercera Reunión del Mecanismo Tripartito Sobre Migracion Irregular.

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Joint Statement: Trilateral on Irregular Migration

The Colombian Minister of Foreign Affairs Luis Gilberto Murillo, the United States Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas, and the Panamanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Javier Eduardo Martinez-Acha led the high-level delegation that met in Cartagena de Indias for their Third Trilateral Meeting on Irregular Migration.

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Major Enforcement Operation in Guatemala Secures Arrest of Human Smuggler Indicted by JTFA

Extensive coordination and collaboration between the Department of Homeland Security, the Justice Department and domestic and international partners resulted in a major enforcement operation that dismantled a human smuggling network based in Guatemala. In June 2022, this network smuggled people into the United States on a journey that ended with the deaths of 53 migrants in a tractor-trailer in San Antonio, Texas. Twenty-one of the deceased migrants were Guatemalan.

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Statement from Secretary Mayorkas on Arrest of Alleged Leaders of Sinaloa Cartel

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas released a statement on the arrest of alleged leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel Ismael Zambada Garcia (“El Mayo”) and Joaquin Guzman Lopez.

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Members of Human Smuggling Organization Charged for Illegally Bringing Migrants Into US

SAN DIEGO — Nineteen alleged members of a human smuggling organization have been criminally charged for coordinating the smuggling of dozens of unauthorized migrants into the U.S. from Mexico

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FACT SHEET: President Biden’s Presidential Proclamation and Joint DHS-DOJ Interim Final Rule Cut Encounters at Southwest Border by 55 Percent

The Presidential Proclamation issued by President Biden to temporarily suspend the entry of certain noncitizens across the southern border – including the southwest land and southern coastal borders – and the complementary joint interim final rule (IFR) issued by DHS and DOJ have now been in effect for seven weeks, helping reduce the number of encounters at our Southwest Border by 55%.

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Large-Scale Counterfeit Pill Manufacturer Charged With Drug Offenses and Pandemic Loan Fraud

BOSTON — FBI, HSI and DEA special agents arrested a Massachusetts man July 18 in connection with an ongoing investigation of counterfeit pills containing fentanyl and methamphetamine.