400 Migrants Cross Border into Texas — 60 Arrested for Trespassing

Texas Department of Public Safety troopers arrested 60 migrants for trespassing on a ranch near the border. The arrested migrants came from a group of 400 who illegally crossed near Normandy, Texas, over the weekend.

Texas DPS spokesman Lt. Christopher Oliverez tweeted photos from a group of 80 migrants arrested by troopers for criminal trespass. The arrests came as a group of more than 400 migrants forced their way under a border fence along the Rio Grande.

.@TxDPS arrested 60 illegal immigrants for criminal trespass after a group of almost 400 illegal immigrants unlawfully crossed through a fence onto a private ranch property. Local jails are at capacity & cannot sustain the number of arrests. #OperationLoneStar #BorderCrisis https://t.co/DFfUHxL0tW pic.twitter.com/7W752CAMRE

— Chris Olivarez (@LtChrisOlivarez) October 30, 2022

Included in the Olivarez tweet is a link to a report from Fox News reporter Nate Foy. Foy’s video shows the carnage left behind where a group of 400 migrants used a belt to pull back the border barrier so they could crawl under the fence and enter the U.S.

The video includes dramatic nighttime drone video showing the stream of more than 400 migrants coming across the river and entering Texas. By breaking though the border fencing erected by Texas National Guardsmen under Governor Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star, the migrants committed a state crime of criminal trespass.

A look at the property damage/trash left behind for a local ranch owner in Normandy, TX. A group of nearly 400 migrants crossed the border illegally, crawled under a fence and awaited Border Patrol here. Migrants on this ranch will now be charged with criminal trespassing #dig pic.twitter.com/1QzF2JOOiK

— Nate Foy (@foymeetsworld) October 30, 2022

This is the legal basis for DPS troopers to arrest the 80 migrants taken into custody. Olivarez implied that more would have been arrested but for overcrowding in local jails due to the large number of arrests of migrants violating state law.

The video also illustrates the smugglers’ tactic of engaging DPS troopers in high-speed pursuits.

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook.