El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended a group of more than 50 migrants after they illegally crossed the New River into California. Officials called the river “one of the most polluted bodies of water in North America.”
Florida Highway Patrol arrested an alleged human smuggler after finding three migrants being transported from Houston, Texas, to Key Largo. Officials say cases like this are on the rise.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents found a group of 40 migrants trapped inside a metal box loaded on a conveyance trailer at an interior immigration checkpoint. The migrants were inside the sealed box with no means of escape.
Big Bend Sector Border Patrol agents may have saved the lives of 48 migrants locked inside a tractor-trailer near Sierra Blanca, Texas, on Saturday. Agents found the migrants during an inspection at the Interstate 10 immigration checkpoint.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents found three large groups of migrants who crossed the border into Starr County, Texas. The three groups combined for a total of 517 migrants.
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents interdicted nine human smuggling attempts utilizing tractor-trailer rigs during the past week. The searches of the trailers led to the apprehension of nearly 500 migrants from this single method of conveyance.
Houlton Sector Border Patrol agents teamed up with Maine law enforcement to take 22 migrants illegally in the country into custody. Those arrested include a previously deported Mexican national with a conviction for human smuggling and illegal re-entry after removal.
Border Patrol agents working the border near Eagle Pass, Texas, on Wednesday arrested four military-age Syrian migrants, a source within CBP told Breitbart Texas under the condition of anonymity. The four men attempted to sneak into the U.S. after illegally crossing the border from Coahuila, Mexico.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents found an unaccompanied two-year-old migrant toddler with a group of 38 migrants who illegally crossed the border near Roma, Texas. No one in the group admitted to knowing anything about the Honduran child.
Border Patrol agents in the five Texas-based border sectors apprehended nearly 627,000 migrants since October. This represents approximately 62 percent of all migrant apprehensions along the U.S. southwest border.
Big Bend Sector Border Patrol agents rescued a group of migrants after human smugglers abandoned them in the remote West Texas desert. The group included two infants.
Border Patrol officials report that agents apprehended nearly 210,000 migrants who illegally crossed the southwest border with Mexico in March. The apprehensions mark a new record for the Biden administration as they move closer to ending the Title 42 migrant expulsion program.
Border Patrol agents arrested 23 migrants who illegally crossed from Mexico in 2021 and subsequently were identified as being on the Terrorist Watch List. The former head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection wonders what happened to those 23 migrants.
EAGLE PASS, Texas — Migrant traffic crossing the Rio Grande showed no sign of slowing on the eve of Easter. Border Patrol agents and Texas Army National Guard soldiers apprehended hundreds seeking to surrender in Eagle Pass, Texas.
EAGLE PASS, Texas — The Texas bank of the Rio Grande is littered with growing mounds of discarded garbage left behind by the thousands of migrants entering the United States. Breitbart Texas retraced the path taken by nearly 500 migrants each day.
Border Patrol agents and state police in Texas found a four-year-old boy and his mother as they interdicted a smuggling operation involving migrants and marijuana. The group of 15 people brought 116 pounds of marijuana into the U.S.
Laredo Sector Marine Unit agents rescued a drowning migrant struggling to cross the Rio Grande illegally from Mexico into Texas.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents are being instructed to tell migrants not to get on the Texas-provided buses ordered by Governor Greg Abbott, according to a West Texas mayor. Governor Abbott ordered the Texas Division of Emergency Management to prepare buses to transport migrants released by the Biden Administration to Washington, D.C. The program is voluntary.
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 2,900 migrants in a single week. The apprehensions appear to show the migrant surge spreading into the fourth-busiest of the five Texas-based Border Patrol sectors.
El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended a group of 48 migrants attempting to move through the California desert. Agents identified the migrants as citizens of Cuba and Venezuela.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 226 migrants at a single border crossing location in a 24-hour period. The apprehensions are part of a record number of migrant crossings along the southwest border with Mexico.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents found a group of small migrant children abandoned by human smugglers along the Rio Grande border in West Texas. The agents found the children in a group of eight.
Texas Department of Public Safety troopers interdicted two human smuggling attempts in the Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Sector. The troopers arrested the two human smugglers — both foreign nationals.
El Paso Sector Border Patrol officials report a trend where adult migrants attempt to pass themselves off as unaccompanied minors. The agents uncovered 23 such attempts so far this fiscal year.
Border Patrol agents in South Texas apprehended more than 270 migrants packed in tractor-trailers at interior immigration checkpoints during the past week. The arrests took place in five separate smuggling incidents.
Border Patrol agents and Texas law enforcement teamed up to apprehend 42 migrants on a ranch located 30 miles from Mexico. Many of the apprehended migrants will face state charges for criminal trespass.
State and federal law enforcement officials in West Texas apprehended a group of migrants packed like sardines in a dump trailer. The traffic stop took place near Carrizo Springs, Texas.
A Texas border man with links to Mexico’s Gulf Cartel will spend 20 years in prison for kidnapping two migrants and forcing their relatives to pay a ransom.
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended a group of 55 Cuban migrants who illegally crossed the border near Sasabe, Arizona. The group of 55 migrants included 45 unaccompanied minors.
The apprehension of migrants illegally crossing the southwest border with Mexico between ports of entry in March set a new Biden-era record, according to a source operating under the auspices of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 209,000 migrants in March — up from just over 169,000 last March.
A Texas Department of Public Safety Air Division helicopter aircrew captured images of a large group of migrants using a rope to make their way across the Rio Grande from Mexico. The group consisted of more than 100 migrants crossing in the single event near Eagle Pass, Texas.
A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper assisted Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents in rescuing a migrant woman abandoned in a burning vehicle. The woman was zipped in a duffel bag.
El Paso Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a pair of heavily armed human smugglers at an interior immigration checkpoint in New Mexico as they attempted to move 18 migrants in a U-Haul trailer.
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents pursuing a suspected human smuggling vehicle observed three migrants being pushed from the moving pickup truck. The migrants, including a minor, sustained serious injuries and had to be transported to a hospital.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents found groups of migrants being smuggled in dangerous situations. One included a migrant stuffed under the floorboard of an SUV.
Big Bend Sector Border Patrol agents utilized high-tech surveillance systems and teamed up with Texas law enforcement to apprehend groups of migrants attempting to avoid arrest.
The apprehension of migrants illegally crossing the border in the Del Rio Sector continues at a record-setting pace, according to Border Patrol officials. The tactic of crossing large groups strains resources and manpower in one of the nation’s busiest sectors.
Horse Patrol Units in the Tucson Sector interdicted multiple human smuggling incidents near the border in southern Arizona. In one of the incidents, the horse-mounted agents teamed up with a Border Patrol K-9 team to locate hiding migrants.
Uvalde, Texas, police officers found a group of migrants packed inside a dump trailer about 50 miles north of the border with Mexico.
A federal court sentenced two soldiers from Fort Hood, Texas, to prison following an incident where they conspired to smuggle migrants from the border region into the U.S. interior. The two soldiers received sentences of 24 and 30 months after pleading guilty in January.
