| 2026-11-02 | Intercept Reviews More Than Two Dozen Incidents of ICE Using Vehicles Against Immigrants and Activists; 2025 CBP Directive Widens Discretion
1 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-18 | Paige Adamson Dies in Point Roberts After a CBP Voter-Registration Stop and a Deportation Notice
2 src Customs and Border Protection · Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-14 | DHS Rejects GAO Recommendation That ICE Adopt Automated Body-Camera Activation
1 src |
| confirmed |
| 2026-10-11 | Judge Rochon Stays CBP's $20 Million LMD Ad Purchase Order in Common Cause v. DHS, Finds Plaintiffs Likely to Succeed
4 src Department of Homeland Security · Customs and Border Protection · Office of Management and Budget · Common Cause | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-20 | CBP Signs $20 Million 'National Media Campaign' Order With LMD Agency; 'Paid for by the U.S. Government' Trump Ads Follow
5 src Customs and Border Protection · Department of Homeland Security · White House | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-13 | ACLU Files Federal Lawsuit Against Memphis Safe Task Force Alleging Pattern of First Amendment Retaliation Against Civilians Recording Federal Immigration Enforcement
5 src American Civil Liberties Union · Todd Blanche · Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-04-15 | Jenn Budd Appears on Frank Figliuzzi Show, Discusses CBP Cover-Up Teams and CIT-to-OPR Personnel Rotation
6 src Rodney Scott |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-02 | CBP internal inquiry orders Bovino to answer questions on Judge Ellis's credibility findings; he moves to retire 16 days later
3 src Gregory Bovino · Sara Ellis · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · CBP Office of Professional Responsibility · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-02-11 | Body Camera Footage and Agent Texts Released in Marimar Martinez Case, Showing CBP Steered Into Her Vehicle and Bragged About Shooting
3 src Marimar Martinez · Charles Exum · Judge Georgia Alexakis · Gregory Bovino |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-28 | Bovino sidelined from Minneapolis command and sent back to El Centro as Homan takes over; DHS disputes 'removed' framing
4 src Gregory Bovino · Tom Homan · Rodney Scott · Tricia McLaughlin · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-19 | DHS Releases Year-End Report Claiming 'Most Secure Border in History' While Touting 2.5 Million Departures and Record Drug Seizures
3 src Department of Homeland Security (DHS) · Kristi Noem · Donald Trump · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-18 | Border Patrol Academy Reaches Highest Enrollment Since 2009 With 1,100 Trainees as Trump Administration Militarizes Enforcement Training
3 src U.S. Border Patrol · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Donald Trump · Department of Homeland Security (DHS) |
| confirmed |
| 2025-11-20 | Federal Charges Dismissed Against Marimar Martinez After Government's Own Evidence Contradicts CBP Account
2 src Marimar Martinez · Charles Exum · U.S. Border Patrol · Judge Georgia Alexakis |
| confirmed |
| 2025-10-31 | Bovino's El Centro Deputy Daniel Parra Admits Under Oath That Border Patrol Agents Do Not Typically Work in Dense Urban Areas or Encounter Protesters
5 src Gregory Bovino · Sara Ellis · U.S. Border Patrol · U.S. Customs and Border Protection | | confirmed |
| 2025-10-28 | Trump Purges 12 ICE Field Directors, Replaces with Border Patrol Loyalists to Escalate Deportations
3 src Donald Trump · Gregory Bovino · Kristi Noem · Stephen Miller · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-10-16 | Judge Alexakis Orders CBP Agent Exum's Vehicle Returned from Maine After Government Released Evidence Out of State
2 src Judge Georgia Alexakis · Charles Exum · U.S. Border Patrol |
| confirmed |
| 2025-06-18 | Senate Confirms Rodney Scott as CBP Commissioner 51–46, Seven Weeks After IACHR Found U.S. Responsible for Hernández Rojas Cover-Up He Supervised
5 src Rodney Scott · U.S. Senate |
| confirmed |
| 2025-04-28 | IACHR Holds United States Responsible for Anastasio Hernández Rojas Killing and Cover-Up — 15 Years After CBP Agents Beat and Tased Him While Handcuffed
5 src Rodney Scott |
| confirmed |
| 2025-01-29 | DHS S&T publishes updated PIA-044 for Cloud-Based Biometric Analytic Environment (CBAE) — documents DEBIASE R&D data flows on AWS GovCloud
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2024-05-13 | GAO report finds former CBP Critical Incident Team personnel reassigned to Evidence Collection and Management Inquiry Teams; OPR independence compromised
3 src Government Accountability Office · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Border Patrol · CBP Office of Professional Responsibility · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2023-08-25 | DHS S&T Awards SAIC $59.2M DEBIASE Contract — Largest R&D Award in Leaked Dataset Funds Biometric Scaling from Airports to Land/Sea Ports
7 src DHS Science and Technology Directorate |
| confirmed |
| 2022-05-06 | CBP Commissioner Chris Magnus terminates Border Patrol Critical Incident Teams; duties transferred to Office of Professional Responsibility
6 src U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Border Patrol · CBP Office of Professional Responsibility · Alex Padilla · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2022-01-24 | Ten House and Senate committee chairs request GAO audit of CBP Critical Incident Teams
3 src Bennie G. Thompson · Gary Peters · Alex Padilla · Zoe Lofgren · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2010-05-28 | Anastasio Hernandez Rojas Beaten and Tasered to Death by Border Patrol at San Ysidro; CIT Cover-Up Begins Same Day
8 src Rodney Scott |
| confirmed |