By Daniel Trotta and Jasper Ward Jan 27 (Reuters) - A U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and wounded a human-trafficking suspect who fired on a federal government helicopter in Arizona on Tuesday and later engaged in a shootout with the agent,

The incident comes after angry protests erupted in Minneapolis after the fatal shooting by immigration agents of 37-year-old intensive care nurse Alex Pretti on Saturday. View on euronews

Officials have struggled to provide oversight of the agency, even as local communities and civil rights groups have documented episodes of violence.

Here are answers to key legal questions on what immigration agents and protesters are allowed to do, and where there are gray areas in the law.

Jan 26 (Reuters) - Gregory Bovino has been removed from his role as the "commander at large" for the U.S. Border Patrol and will return to his former job in California, where he is expected to retire soon,

Bovino’s defense of agents who shot and killed a man in Minnesota drew condemnation. In Imperial Valley, though, his legacy is complicated.

Border Patrol agents from the Sandusky Bay Station arrested three people near Maumee on Feb. 2, reportedly charging one with felony re-entry.

Still, at the time, the Border Patrol remained a relatively small group focused on racial policing near the Mexican border. The agency’s most high-profile moment was Operation Wetback, which ejected approximately a million people in the mid-1950s.

EXCLUSIVE — Border Patrol agents spent much of 2025 enforcing immigration laws inside the United States, far from the nation's borders with Canada and Mexico. Michael Banks, the Border Patrol's national chief, told the Washington Examiner that the public ...

Now, Border Patrol has taken its show on the road, delivering harrowing abuses to communities far from external U.S. boundaries, and in operations that have nothing to do with its purported mandate of securing the border.

A man who authorities say was involved in a human smuggling operation was shot Tuesday in an exchange of gunfire with the U.S. Border Patrol and after firing at a federal helicopter near the U.S.-Mexico border,

North Carolina’s United States Senator Thom Tillis is pushing once again for answers on Charlotte’s Border Patrol operation.