FORT HANCOCK, Texas — After a bad day on the job as a Border Patrol agent, Eddie DeLaCruz went home and began discussing with his wife how to celebrate her upcoming birthday. Then he casually pressed his government-issued handgun under his chin and pulled the trigger.

NACO - Investigators were scouring the Naco, Arizona area Wednesday following the death of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Ivie.

Border Patrol agents rescued nine illegal aliens who were trying to swim across the Colorado River Wednesday morning.

U.S. Border Patrol recruiters took their search for new agents to Phoenix International Raceway on Friday in Avondale.

IMPERIAL BEACH, Calif. - Law enforcement officers wanted: must work graveyard shifts alone in remote towns along the Mexican border, put in long hours and perform well in triple-digit temperatures.

A draft government study found the Border Patrol isn't measuring how its checkpoints along the border affect the quality of life in surrounding communities.

EL CENTRO, Calif. - The U.S. Border Patrol's gleaming new regional headquarters building is just one sign of how the fast-growing agency is boosting the local economy.

NACO, AZ - Authorities say a U.S. Border Patrol agent died after a shooting near Naco, Ariz. early Tuesday morning.

RIO RICO - Border Patrol agents say they found 27 illegal immigrants in a Rio Rico house being used as a smuggler's way station.

SAN DIEGO - Leather belts with brass buckles are out; nylon belts with quick-release plastic buckles are in. Slacks are out; lightweight cargo pants are in. Shiny badges and nameplates are out; cloth patches are in.

TUCSON - The U.S. Border Patrol has chosen a site on Interstate 19 just north of Arivaca Junction as the interim site of its first permanent checkpoint in southern Arizona.

TUCSON — The U.S. government has halted flights home for Mexicans caught entering the country illegally in the deadly summer heat of Arizona's deserts, a money-saving move that ends a seven-year experiment that cost taxpayers nearly $100 million.

Some of the state’s top lawmakers are touting a Scottsdale company’s high-tech radar system as the first step to stemming the flow of illegal immigrants into Arizona.

NACO - Volunteers recruited over the Internet to monitor illegal immigrant activity along a stretch of Arizona’s border will end their monthlong campaign this weekend as they began — peering through binoculars along a dusty border road.

Technology needed to guard against terrorist infiltration is not reaching the Arizona border, and a top regional official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security says the reason is federal bureaucrats have misspent money reserved for that purpose.

Technology needed to guard against terrorist infiltration is not reaching the Arizona border, and a top regional official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security says the reason is federal bureaucrats have misspent money reserved for that purpose.

Technology needed to guard against terrorist infiltration is not reaching the Arizona border, and a top regional official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security says the reason is federal bureaucrats have misspent money reserved for that purpose.

Technology needed to guard against terrorist infiltration is not reaching the Arizona border, and a top regional official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security says the reason is federal bureaucrats have misspent money reserved for that purpose.

Over the last two years, thousands of National Guard troops have assisted U.S. Border Patrol agents along the Mexican border, and most of Arizona's congressional delegation wants to keep it that way.

President Bush said Monday he understands the strain illegal immigration is placing on Arizona and other border states.

President Bush said Monday he understands the strain illegal immigration is placing on Arizona and other border states.

President Bush said Monday he understands the strain illegal immigration is placing on Arizona and other border states.