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A Texas congressman's suggestion that 'nothing' is keeping migrant children in detention camps headlines a week of immigration-related fiction.

Customs and Border Protection officials Tuesday announced the agency's largest bust at the Port of Baltimore.

By Brittany Brown

Jun 25, 2019

Our ports of entry are increasingly becoming a key battleground in the war against opioids. Congress must act aggressively.

U.S. Customers is hiring officers for ports of entry during event at BWI Airport.

By Lorraine Mirabella

Feb 12, 2019

Vice President Mike Pence will visit the Port of Baltimore on Friday to see technology that customs agents use to scan shipping containers, trucks, rail cars and cargo for illegal narcotics and weapons, the White House says.

By Colin Campbell

Feb 7, 2019

Three egg masses of the destructive Asian gypsy moth were discovered on a vehicle transport ship in the port of Baltimore earlier this month.

By Christopher Dinsmore

Aug 29, 2018

As we encountered U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials at Dulles airport after a return flight from Italy, I was asked if our sealed sandwich given to use on the flight contained meat. “It is a turkey and cheese sandwich from United Airlines,” I said. No big deal, right?

Hundreds of protesters blocked off traffic at Gay and East Lombard streets on Wednesday during evening rush hour to demonstrate against ICE’s separation of children from their families who have entered the country illegally.

By Christina Tkacik

Jun 20, 2018

Paul Kahungi Njoroge, 30, a U.S. citizen from Kenya, was arrested by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport and turned over to Maryland Transportation Authority Police.

By Christina Tkacik

May 16, 2018

Trump uses border patrol death to buttress wall; it's a losing argument.

At a port that moves millions of tons of cargo each year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection specialists recently managed to find a single invasive bug —smaller than a grain of rice — and stop it from causing a potentially costly infestation.

By John Fritze

May 12, 2017

The American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland joined a nationwide lawsuit on Wednesday in an effort to learn more about the implementation of President Donald Trump’s travel ban.

By John Fritze

Apr 12, 2017

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agricultural specialists at Washington Dulles International Airport confiscated 42 pounds of horsemeat and other ruminant meat,

By Meghan Pryce

Feb 16, 2017

As BWI continues to increase its international traffic, Rosoff and her fellow agricultural specialists at U.S. Customs and Border Protection are seizing more banned items to prevent invasive species, disease-carrying foods and anything else that could potentially devastate American agriculture from slipping through the airport into the U.S.

By Colin Campbell

Oct 23, 2016

A passenger flying from Iceland to Baltimore Washington International Airport was found with possible whale bones in his luggage, prompting confiscation to determine if they're from an endangered species.

By Jean Marbella

Feb 12, 2016

U.S. Customs agents discovered a beetle inside a shipping container in the port of Baltimore that could have posed a significant agricultural threat, the Department of Homeland Security announced Monday.

By Christopher Dinsmore

Nov 30, 2015

Two men returning to Baltimore after an international cruise on the Carnival Pride were arrested by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers on Sunday, after it was determined they had outstanding warrants for their arrest, CBP officials said Tuesday.

By Kevin Rector

Sep 15, 2015

Authorities seized 147 pounds of cocaine hidden inside a shipping container full of lumber at the port of Baltimore.

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection narcotics dog found a small amount of marijuana in the luggage of a New York woman flying into BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport from Jamaica, officials said Wednesday.

A new report shows a dramatic increase in the federal government's backlog of unanswered Freedom of Information Act requests — and blames it in part on a shrinking federal workforce.

By Erin Cox

May 10, 2015

WASHINGTON — The indictment of New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez on corruption charges Wednesday could have significant implications for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — and it could also provide an unexpected opportunity for Maryland.

By John Fritze

Apr 1, 2015

A man was charged $500 for less than a gram of pot at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport on Sunday — after a U.S. Customs and Border Protection narcotics dog sniffed it out in his luggage.

By Kevin Rector

Mar 25, 2015

Each day at the port of Baltimore, Customs and Border Protection officers serve as the nation's front line against a range of threats, including invasive species, illicit drugs and terrorism.

By Kevin Rector

Mar 16, 2015

WASHINGTON -- As the Department of Homeland Security braces for the possibility of a shutdown at the end of the week, Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin introduced legislation on Tuesday that would provide retroactive pay for any workers furloughed because of a lapse in funding.

A beetle species native to Asia and considered a threat to U.S. forests was discovered in the Baltimore region for the first time last month, during an inspection of a Chinese shipping container at the port of Baltimore.

By Kevin Rector

Nov 19, 2014

Federal officials announced Wednesday that they plan to screen international passengers for Ebola at five major U.S. airports, while hospitals around the country continue to isolate patients showing Ebola-like symptoms.

"K" Line and others conspired ¿to suppress and eliminate competition by allocating customers and routes, rigging bids, and fixing prices for international ocean shipping services for roll-on, roll-off cargo, such as cars and trucks, to and from the United States and elsewhere¿ between 1997 and 2012.

Customs agents seized more than $25,000 from a Nigerian man who arrived at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport from London on Wednesday after he failed to disclose the cash.

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Andy Harris, the state's sole Republican in Congress, vowed Friday to use his position on the House Appropriations Committee to block any effort by the federal government to set up a shelter for immigrant children in Carroll County.

President Barack Obama asked Congress Tuesday for $3.7 billion in emergency funding to address the influx of children from Central America entering the country illegally, a first step in what the White House described as a broader effort to speed deportations.

Federal officials are eying a vacant office building in Baltimore's west side as a potential shelter for children caught attempting to enter the country illegally.

An agriculturally destructive moth species never before seen in the United States was located in a shipment of Chinese soybeans at the port of Baltimore, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said Friday.

A stowaway slug that caught a free ride on a shipment of Mexican mint bound for Elkridge was intercepted at Washington Dulles International Airport as the first of its kind to be identified in the Washington region.

In one of the largest drug busts at the port of Baltimore in years, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents seized nearly 128 pounds of cocaine from a Panamanian shipping container last week.

Trusted fliers using Southwest Airlines out of BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport will now have a quicker and less invasive path through security, the Transportation Security Administration announced Thursday.

More security lines will be opened under the TSA PreCheck program at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport starting Tuesday, giving trusted travelers another option for expedited screening.

The eggs of a destructive foreign moth species that "poses a significant threat to our nation's forests and urban landscapes" were found aboard a carrier ship docked in Baltimore in mid-September, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Monday.

Endangered sea corals seized several months ago by federal border agents in Florida are now being used as educational tools in the National Aquarium's new blacktip reef shark exhibit.

A 24-year-old Virginia man who fled the country earlier this year after being charged with arson in Maryland was arrested on Tuesday at Washington Dulles International Airport, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Officers discovered multiple envelopes wrapped in clothing that contained U.S. and foreign currency worth more than $45,000.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents intercepted a type of mealybug pest in an exotic fruit at Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, federal officials said Monday.