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Customs broker Amy Magnus thought she’d seen it all, navigating regulations to import everything from lumber and bananas to circus animals and Egyptian mummies. Then 2025 hit.

U.S. Border Patrol agents have joined efforts to remove truck drivers lacking legal U.S. residency from the road, apprehending more than 170 individuals near the borders of Canada and Mexico.

The Nov. 8-11 dragnet, called Operation Bear Cave, focused on intercepting immigrants holding state-issued CDLs but who lacked permanent legal status driving commercial vehicles.

Companies that paid the $165 billion in customs duties collected so far this fiscal year won’t have an easy time getting their money back.

The Treasury Department recorded $27 billion in customs-duties revenue for June, bringing fiscal year-to-date inflows from levies to $113 billion.

The U.S. government’s use of tariffs to address what are viewed as unfair trade practices and the overseas drug trade has been a hallmark of President Donald Trump’s second administration.

The existing port — which is 5 miles away and expanded 27 years ago from the original one built in 1933 — can no longer handle today’s traffic and commercial vehicle inspection demands.

U.S. CBP officers can now inspect more inbound trucks from Mexico at a border crossing into Texas since construction is complete on an $8 million project donated by the City of Pharr.

Legislation meant to ensure border security staff remain at commercial ports of entry was recently introduced in the U.S. Senate.

A federal agency has ruled that an Alabama chassis manufacturing company knowingly imported chassis from China that were being marketed as having been made in a Vietnamese factory.