2 Media Reports tagged “Ports of Entry”

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CBP staffs up border line as asylum seekers try to reach U.S. soil by driving across

Published by the San Diego Union Tribune on February 5, 2022.

Asylum seekers, many of them Russian, are seeking to reach U.S. soil through San Diego’s main port of entry from Tijuana. One case led to a December 12, 2021 use of force incident.

Tags: Asylum, CBP, Metering, Ports of Entry, Use of Force

I Was a U.S. Diplomat. Customs and Border Protection Only Cared That I Was Black.

Published by Politico on August 30, 2020.

Tianna Spears, a diplomat assigned to the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, recounts the difficulty she consistently experienced re-entering the United States, as an African-American person, through CBP’s ports of entry.

Tags: CBP, El Paso, Organizational Culture, Ports of Entry, Profiling