US BORDER PATROL OVERVIEW

USBP Overview Part 1

During the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, the United States Border Patrol, along with the INS inspection division, the U.S. Customs inspection division, and the Department of Agriculture’s plant and animal inspection service, were merged into a new agency called U.S. Customs and Border Protection, also known as CBP.

While the traditional mission of the United States Border Patrol has always been the detection and prevention of the illegal entry of aliens and smuggling of illegal contraband into the United States anywhere other than a designated port-of-entry, the dawn of the age of terrorism within our nation has added a new and high priority mission: to detect and prevent the entry of terrorists and their weapons into the United States.


On horseback, and on land, sea, and air, the United States Border Patrol defends America.

The Border Patrol never sleeps. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week the men and women of the United States Border Patrol are doing everything possible with the limited resources available to them to secure the borders of the United States of America.

Keeping America’s borders safe is a very dangerous assignment. Nearly 100 Border Patrol officers have lost their lives in the line of duty. Thousands have been wounded.

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