The apprehension of illegal immigrants crossing the southwestern border fell for the first time since April 2017. Border Patrol agents apprehended 25,980 in January trying to cross between legal ports of entry.
The Rio Grande River is a perilous and deadly place for illegal immigrants. Border Patrol agents retrieved the dead body of one and rescued two others over the last few days.
U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested a Mexican national living in the U.S. under DACA protection on charges of human smuggling. The alleged incident occurred in the Texas border town of Laredo on Wednesday.
Border Patrol agents in the Tucson Sector arrested a previously deported Mexican national with a criminal record for multiple felonies, including negligent homicide. They also arrested three U.S. citizens in separate incidents for trying to smuggle illegal immigrants into the country.
Federal authorities detained two illegal aliens and one U.S. citizen on Monday after a California Highway Patrol officer pulled over a suspicious brown delivery truck and found it to be stuffed with 77 profusely sweating illegal aliens, including five children.
DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) recipients were arrested in two separate incidents of human smuggling operations in California over the course of two days last week.
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — An illegal alien pleaded guilty to federal human smuggling charges for his role in helping a group of active U.S. soldiers from Fort Hood move migrants into Texas.
Human smugglers operating in the border city of Laredo stuffed 76 illegal immigrants into the cargo area of a tractor-trailer in an attempt to get them past a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint. The tactic appears to be gaining popularity but has led to multiple deaths as human smugglers find new ways to maneuver around authorities.
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) administrator David Pekoske issued an emergency order Monday requiring stricter scrutiny of U.S.-bound cargo on flights from five majority Muslim countries.
A Texas sheriff ordered the arrest of an 18-wheeler driver allegedly found smuggling 57 migrants from the Rio Grande Valley. Border Patrol agents made the discovery of the human cargo loaded in the back of a locked tractor-trailer at an inspection checkpoint 80 miles from the Mexican border.
Deputies in South Texas are in the process of recovering the badly decomposed bodies of five migrants who appeared to have died from exposure during this week’s freezing weather conditions. The deaths occurred in Brooks County where it appears the migrants were attempting to circumvent the U.S. Border Patrol Checkpoint located south of Falfurrias.
A year ago, President Trump committed to the American people to build a wall along the United States-Mexico border to stop illegal immigration and the flow of drugs into the country.
Border Patrol agents caught a Honduran national with a criminal record and long immigration history trying to cross the Canadian-U.S. border this week.
State and federal law enforcement agencies teamed up to seize more than a ton of marijuana in the tiny Texas border town of Falcon.
Sheriff’s deputies and Border Patrol agents are working together in South Texas to interdict human smugglers before they can drop off their “cargo” in freezing conditions in one of America’s most deadly counties for migrants.
Border Patrol agents in southern Arizona arrested a convicted rapist and a murderer over the Martin Luther King holiday weekend. Other agents in the Tucson Sector rescued three illegal aliens stranded in the desert near Whetstone.
Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector continue to confront the dangers they encounter in the nation’s busiest region for the apprehension of illegal immigrants. Agents in this sector apprehend more Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC), Family Unit Aliens (FMUA) than all other southwest border patrol sectors combined. Nearly half of all illegal aliens apprehended after crossing the border from Mexico are arrested in the 17,000 square miles of this sector.
Border Patrol in southern Arizona stopped two previously deported rapists from re-entering the U.S.
Border Patrol agent morale is much improved under President Donald Trump, according to the head of the National Border Patrol Council. The change is causing more agents to remain with the Border Patrol as job satisfaction increases.
The number of families apprehended by Border Patrol agents grew by 625 percent from a low point in April 2017. The figure fell sharply during the first four months of the Trump Administration but has risen steadily thereafter.
A Guatemalan man will spend five years in a U.S. prison after he assaulted a Border Patrol agent in Uvalde, Texas. The agent suffered a concussion after the man pounded his head against a train car.
In 2017, the bodies or remains of 52 illegal aliens were found in one South Texas county. They died at the hands of human smugglers attempting to move them around the centrally-located U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint.
Working over Christmas holiday weekend proved perilous for Border Patrol agents as one agent was shot and others were fired upon.
Border Patrol agents arrested a previously deported child predator as he attempted to illegally re-enter the U.S. in southern Arizona. The agents found the man with a group of illegal aliens who illegally crossed the border near Gila Bend.
Federal authorities arrested a man from Mexico with an extensive criminal history, including attacking a Texas cop while in the country illegally. The capture occurred near the area where a U.S. Border Patrol agent was allegedly murdered and another agent was attacked in November.
Border Patrol agents delivered a baby near the Texas border with Mexico shortly after the mother illegally entered the U.S.
United States Border Patrol Agents were angered after they provided armed security at a wedding for a convicted drug smuggler during a rare opening of the steel gate on the U.S.- Mexico Border fence in November.
U.S. Border Patrol and local law enforcement officials recovered the bodies of 10 illegal aliens during a recent South Texas cold snap. Weather forecasters predict additional nights of dangerous weather conditions for the Christmas holiday week.
Nearly 300 illegal aliens died while attempting to cross into the U.S. during Fiscal Year 2017. The figure is down from 329 over last year.
An illegal immigrant from Guatemala now faces charges of assaulting a Tucson Sector Border Patrol agent on Thursday. The alleged assault came shortly after the foreign national illegally crossed the border from Mexico.
The apprehension of illegal immigrants crossing the southwestern U.S./Mexico Border has risen steadily into numbers previously reported by the Obama Administration. Since falling to a historic low point in April 2017, apprehensions have increased in each of the following seven months.
Seven years after the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, his family is still searching for answers to the question of how some of the weapons found at the scene got in the hands of the Mexican bandits that killed him.
McALLEN, Texas — The new Homeland Security Secretary toured the Texas border and pointed out the need for more physical barriers, technology, agents, prosecutors, judges and undoing decades of failed policy.
PHOENIX, Arizona — Federal agents continue encountering sophisticated drug smuggling operations whose members use radio communication systems, scouts, and other measures to avoid capture.
For many, the winter blast that struck the southwestern U.S. over the past few days was seen as either beautiful or inconvenient — for illegal aliens crossing the border, it became a matter of life or death.
U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Tuscon Sector stopped two more previously deported sex offenders from re-entering the U.S.
Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Tom Homan says President Donald Trump took off the “handcuffs” placed on Border Patrol agents by the previous administration. The result: illegal border crossings dropped to a 45-year low, he says.
FBI requested a warrant to search a vehicle they believe may have “trace evidence associated with the murder of a Border Patrol agent and the assault of another.”
Border Patrol agents from the Del Rio Sector arrested two previously deported child sex offenders in one day. The arrests came on November 29 near the border towns of Carrizo Springs and Eagle Pass, Texas.
A year-end report from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials reveals a 73 percent increase in the number of Border Patrol agents assaulted by illegal immigrants. A total of 786 agents were assaulted in 324 incidents over the period ending September 30, 2017.
