The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs & Border Protection (CBP) agencies have made public this week new policies put into place that give illegal immigrants certain protections from immigration enforcement actions at certain locations, deemed "sensitive."
Federal law enforcement agencies have struggled to reduce the amount of marijuana smuggled into the country through the U.S.-Mexico border while the Rio Grande poses as its biggest challenge.
Undocumented immigrant arrests have decreased at the Arizona-Mexico border by 16 percent and reported deaths have plummeted by 40 percent in the current fiscal year, "Fox News Latino" reported.
In an effort to quell concerns from human and civil rights groups regarding the treatment of immigrants along the U.S. and Mexico border, the U.S. Border Patrol implemented a new set of regulations on the use of deadly to its agents Friday.
