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BORTAC was used to raid the family’s home in Miami, Florida in order to seize the child for his return to Cuba. More recently, the agency was used in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

BORTAC is headquartered in El Paso, Texas, explaining the presence of the agent from the unusual tactical unit. The unit is unique in that it conducts training and operations both in the United ...

BORTAC teams, they note, are meant to be called upon to address dangerous situations that run outside of the field of duties that Border Patrol and ICE agents are able to handle—not for "run ...

They go on to say BORTAC agents are supposed to be used to handle dangerous situations outside the normal scope of Border Patrol agent duties — not for "run-of-the-mill immigration arrests" in ...

Bortac (Border Patrol Tactical Unit) is CBP’s’s paramilitary force, an elite group of agents trained to exchange gunfire with cartels.

A 27-year-old Michigan man was shot dead by police after opening fire with an assault rifle on a U.S. Border Patrol station ...

An off-duty BORTAC agent was the first to arrive outside of the “quiet” classroom at 12:15 p.m. and found several local police officers in the hallway there, the CBP official told The ...

One Bortac agent took rounds to his shield as the team entered the classroom, another agent received shrapnel wounds, and a third agent shot and killed 18-year-old Salvador Ramos.

The Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC) from the Rio Grande Valley Sector of South Texas is heading to Arkansas to help with the manhunt for an escaped inmate, the agency announced Thursday.

Manjarrez adds BORTAC isn't the only national team of this level housed in El Paso. "The beauty of this, is that not only is there a specialized ops group here on the fort in El Paso, ...

The El Paso Times is reporting that the law officer was a federal border agent assigned to BORTAC at Fort Bliss, Texas, who killed escapee Matt.