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Big Bend Sector Border Patrol agents report increasing numbers of large migrant groups attempting to avoid apprehension in Texas’ most remote region. In a recent incident, agents apprehended 60 migrants near Presidio, Texas.

A four-year-old Nicaraguan migrant child is believed to have drowned after his 32-year-old mother dropped him as she crossed the Rio Grande. The mother lost the little boy as she crossed the swiftly moving border river just south of Eagle Pass, Texas early Saturday morning. Border Patrol agents continue to search for the child with negative results.

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A ranch hand in Brooks County, Texas, found the body of a woman who appears to have died after exposure to the frigid weather conditions. Brooks County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a call to recover the body of the suspected migrant last week.

Border Patrol agents in the remote Big Bend Sector utilize a variety of advanced technology systems to aid in the apprehension of migrants attempting to avoid detection.

Agents patrolling the border near San Miguel, Arizona, encountered a group of 54 migrants who illegally crossed from Mexico. The group included many unaccompanied minors — including a five-year-old.

Border Patrol officials in multiple Texas sectors report an increase in human smuggling vehicle pursuits resulting in rollover crashes — some fatal.

Border Patrol agents in Texas continue to arrest migrants attempting to avoid apprehension with the use of aerial video technology, whom would otherwise be classified as “got-aways.”

Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents continue to find heavily armed human smugglers as the surge of migrants illegally crossing the border in this region continues to expand. In two separate incidents, agents found smugglers carrying two semi-automatic rifles and two handguns.

Agents in the Del Rio Sector apprehended more than 3,400 migrants who illegally crossed the border over the Super Bowl weekend, officials reported. These agents also interdicted 27 smuggling incidents and rescued at least 24 migrants, including a family of three drowning in the Rio Grande.

Three people are dead in a rollover crash in West Texas involving a suspected human smuggling vehicle being pursued by police. Four others are reported to be seriously injured and were transported to area hospitals.

Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended 70 unaccompanied migrant minors who illegally crossed from Mexico to Arizona over the weekend. The children were part of a large group of 112 overall.

Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents risked their own lives to rescue a migrant family from drowning in the Rio Grande on Saturday. The agents revived the father after the border river dragged him underwater for several minutes.

Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents seized two semi-automatic rifles during a raid on a human smuggling stash house near the Texas border with Mexico. The raid also led to the seizure of three vehicles used in the smuggling scheme.

Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 2,000 migrants during a 48-hour period in what is becoming the nation’s busiest sector.

Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents found a second five-year-old migrant girl in as many days, according to officials. The agents found the little girl traveling with three other children.

Border Patrol agents in the El Paso Sector rescued a group of 132 migrants locked inside a tractor-trailer near the Texas border with Mexico. The group included two unaccompanied Guatemalan migrant children.

Border Patrol agents continue to find young migrant children abandoned along the Texas riverbank of Rio Grande. This time, a five-year-old Guatemalan girl told agents she crossed the river by herself.

Brooks County, Texas, officials report the remains of at least eight migrants found on ranches surrounding a Border Patrol immigration checkpoint in January. This figure is up from three in January 2021.

Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents are apprehending migrants illegally crossing the border into Texas at the rate of 720 per day, officials tweeted. This rate moved the Del Rio Sector into the number one spot for migrant apprehensions in January, a CBP official told Breitbart Texas.

Big Bend Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended a group of migrants attempting to smuggle more than 400 pounds of drugs. Many wore camouflage to attempt to avoid apprehension.

Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents stopped more than 800 migrants from illegally crossing the Rio Grande into Texas last week, according to the sector chief. In addition, the agents apprehended 2,000 more who crossed the border into South Texas between ports of entry

The massive flow of migrants crossing the Rio Grande into the Del Rio Sector is shattering last year’s record pace, according to the sector chief. Apprehensions in some stations are up more than 215 percent over the record set in 2021.

Texas Department of Public Safety troopers assisted Border Patrol agents in the apprehension of 70 migrants in remote regions of the Big Bend Sector over a 36-hour period.

EAGLE PASS, Texas — Migrant groups continue to cross the border in what is now the busiest sector in the nation. Approximately 50 crossed during a period of about two hours on Tuesday.

DEL RIO, Texas — Texas National Guardsmen encountered approximately 105,000 migrants under Operation Lone Star. The soldiers and airmen also participated in “significant drug and weapons seizures.”

Texas National Guardsmen working border security along the Rio Grande border with Mexico rescued a migrant family from drowning. The family of nine migrants attempted to cross from Piedras Negras, Mexico, to Eagle Pass on the morning of January 31 and got caught up in the swiftly moving current.

In one large group, more than 170 migrants crossed the Rio Grande near the small West Texas community of Normandy. The group crossed the river early Monday morning and quickly surrendered to the Border Patrol after walking through a Pecan orchard.

Border Patrol agents working near Mexico apprehended five deported sex offenders who illegally re-entered the U.S. They had sex-crime convictions in states across the nation.

A series of leaked audio and video conversations between rank-and-file Border Patrol agents and Department of Homeland Security leadership reveal the agents have grown tired of the Biden administration’s border policies. During several visits across the southwest border this week, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz received the brunt of pushback from frustrated agents.

Border Patrol agents in the Texas Rio Grande Valley foiled five migrant smuggling attempts in less than 11 hours. The human smuggling ventures spanned from Wednesday evening through Thursday morning, with one causing significant property damage after smugglers abandoned a vehicle in tall grass. The ensuing brush fire destroyed the vehicle and burned privately owned ranch land.

Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents found three small migrant children abandoned by human smugglers on a road near the Rio Grande. The discovery comes amid a surge of migrant crossings in the sector where officials report a near 250 percent increase in apprehensions in the first quarter of the new fiscal year.

Fox News witnessed the release of “a large number of single adult illegal immigrants” into Brownsville, Texas, Sunday morning. This classification of migrants is routinely removed to Mexico under the Title 42 Coronavirus protection protocols put in place by the CDC instituted in during the Trump administration.

The apprehension of migrants in December along the southwest border with Mexico jumped for the second straight month to 170,186, federal officials reported on Monday. This represents an increase of more than 139 percent over the same month in 2021.

A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper died as a result of critical injuries he sustained in a vehicle accident. The rollover crash occurred just north of Eagle Pass on Friday evening. The trooper was airlifted to a San Antonio hospital for advanced medical care where he later succumbed to his injuries.

A Texas Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol trooper on border duty is critically injured as a result of a vehicle accident. The trooper was a passenger when the vehicle driven by a Border Patrol agent rolled into a dry canal.