Despite efforts to add Border Patrol agents to areas where immigrant traffic is high and drug violence is flaring, officers assigned to the 2,000-mile boundary with Mexico are bunched up near the California coast. And some critics see politics at play. ...more

August 31, 2008

The thousands of National Guard troops sent to reinforce the U.S.-Mexican border two years ago have almost completely withdrawn, despite pleas from border-state governors once skeptical of using soldiers to catch illegal immigrants and drug smugglers. ...more

June 21, 2008

A member of the Colombian Medellin-based drug cartel who coordinated the kidnapping of an undercover federal agent in 2005 has been arrested, federal authorities said Friday. ...more

December 29, 2007