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Welcome to the Border Patrol Home Page. From here, you can access our Overview and find information on our mission and operations, our National Strategies, what it's like working for the Border Patrol and how you can join us. You can also find information on our various Border Patrol Sectors and Offices. We have information on Health and Fitness, our Border Safety Initiative, and the work of BORSTAR, our search, trauma and rescue teams. Also, you may link to Media and Public Information related to borders and the Border Patrol.

- Missing CBP Border Patrol Agents Located - Exhaustive Search Results in Long-awaited Recoveries near Los Indios, Texasfeatured see also
- 09/21/2004
- Agents Mourn and Honor the Loss of two of their own - Memorial Service for CBP Border Patrol Agents Held in Harlingen, Texasfeatured see also
- 09/23/2004
arrowU.S. Border Patrol Officer Memorial
Appointees to this position will be required to [serve] along the two international boundary lines and at other assigned places ... The conditions under which this work is carried on are closely comparable in nature and requirements to the duties of a soldier under actual field conditions. ... The work may, for this reason, be attended with some risk and personal danger.

From the first Border Patrol Vacancy Announcement
October 8, 1924

arrowU.S. Border Patrol Sectors
The U.S. Border Patrol has 20 sectors responsible for detecting, interdicting and apprehending those who attempt to illegally enter or smuggle people, including terrorists, or contraband, including weapons of mass destruction, across U.S. borders between official ports of entry.
- U.S. Border Patrol Overview
- 02/21/2003

The United States Border Patrol is the mobile uniformed law enforcement arm of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It was officially established on May 28, 1924 by an act of Congress passed in response to increasing illegal immigration. As mandated by this Act, the small border guard in what was then the Bureau of Immigration was reorganized into the Border Patrol. The initial force of 450 officers was given the responsibility of combating illegal entries and the growing business of alien smuggling.
- National Border Patrol Strategy
- 02/14/2003
- Border Safety Initiative
- 02/25/2003

The Border Patrol's mission is to secure our nation's borders, which includes saving lives. In June, 1998, the then Immigration and Naturalization Service first announced the Border Safety Initiative (BSI), a strategy designed to make the border safer for everyone.
- U.S. Border Patrol History
- 07/15/2003
arrowBORSTAR
arrowCareers with Border Patrol

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 America's Frontline Collection
 CareerFinder
 Border Patrol Agent on Duty Video
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 Missing CBP Border Patrol Agents Located
 Agents Mourn and Honor the Loss of two of their own

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