A special unit within the El Paso Border Patrol teamed up with other agencies to find a missing hiker in the Guadalupe Mountains. The Search Trauma and Rescue Unit -- also known as BORSTAR -- helped ...

Agents from the Border Patrol Search, Trauma and Rescue team known as BORSTAR rescued roughly 2,248 people in the sector that same year, the agency said. Depending on where and how people cross the ...

The federal government created a search and rescue training program called BORSTAR in 1998. Since then, the Border Patrol has conducted thousands of rescues along the Southwest border: In 2022 ...

A woman is alive after being found stranded in a steep, rocky area several miles deep on a trail in San Diego's backcountry ...

along with the U.S. Border Patrol Search, Trauma, and Rescue Unit (BORSTAR) team and a search and rescue dog. Teams search for missing hiker who was rescued after two days in San Diego’s ...

Experts say the U.S. Border Patrol may have to assist U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement with the mass deportations with not enough resources immediately available to carry out the plan.

Morale among Border Patrol agents is "through the roof" after the victory of President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday, and some agents planning on retiring have already reversed their decisions ...

Border Patrol agents and technology to the U.S.-Mexico border. These ideas may sound reasonable enough. Yet, as my research on the history of border enforcement reveals, flooding the zone with ...

Do what we took an oath to do. Bring pride back to our agency,” a senior Border Patrol agent in Texas wrote in a text message Wednesday morning. “We felt like we were forced to turn our backs ...

WASHINGTON −President-elect Donald Trump named Tom Homan, a former Border Patrol agent who rose to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement, his next "border czar" overseeing mass deportations ...