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The final phase of a $200 million expansion to the Calexico West Land Port of Entry is moving ahead after the city approved the sale of a portion of Heffernan Avenue to the federal government.
The Calexico City Council unanimously approved a resolution on Wednesday, April 16, to vacate a portion of Heffernan Avenue ...
In recent weeks, border crossers have reported increasingly stringent southbound inspections conducted by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the U.S. Border Patrol.
that have yet to be designated already as a port of entry. “This bill is great news for our airport and the people who rely on it. Removing the user-fee burden will help us put those dollars ...
The crime was first discovered by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials when they stopped one of Dafar’s co-conspirators ...
An attempt to transport a shipment of counterfeit cigarettes valued at more than $729,000 went up in smoke as U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Laredo Port of Entry intercepted and seized ...
HOUSTON (WJW) – A Texas man was sentenced to prison for smuggling six baby Mexican spider monkeys into the United States ... by an accomplice at the Calexico West Port of Entry.
A Texas man was sentenced to prison for smuggling six baby Mexican spider monkeys into the United States, prosecutors announced on Monday.
Sarmad Ghaled Dafar, 33, of Houston, Texas, was sentenced on April 18 to four months in federal prison and ordered to pay $23 ...
agents with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service discovered three baby Mexican spider monkeys being smuggled into the United States from Mexico through the Calexico West Port of Entry by Dafar's ...
In one case, three monkeys were smuggled through the Calexico West Port of Entry by Dafar's coconspirator ... spider monkeys smuggled into the United States from Mexico in June 2022 and July ...