The U.S. Border Patrol’s Special Operations Group consists of two highly specialized units: BORTAC, the tactical arm, and BORSTAR, the search and rescue team. BORTAC operators handle high-risk ...

U.S. Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks said morale at his agency is "going through the roof" under the Trump administration and ...

It was made up of six people: three from an elite Border Patrol tactical unit called BORTAC, one from a Border Patrol search and rescue team, and two sheriff’s deputies, one each from Uvalde and ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — U.S. Border Patrol agents from San Diego stayed with two stranded and injured Mexican women in the Otay Mountain wilderness and built a makeshift shelter until they ...

The Border Patrol has been bolstered by 750 U.S. military troops dispatched to the San Diego area. In recent months, six miles of the border wall have been outfitted with concertina wire.

MISSION, Texas (AP) — An idled Border Patrol bus sat empty this week, on standby for any migrants surrendering near the southern tip of Texas. Agents in two speedboats zipped past pockets of ...