El Paso Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a previously convicted and deported child sex offender after he illegally crossed into New Mexico. The criminal alien received two felony convictions in 2008 from a court in Colorado.
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents disrupted a human smuggling attempt involving 25 migrants in a tractor-trailer rig. The interdiction occurred at the Interstate 35 checkpoint located between Laredo and San Antonio, Texas.
El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents arrested an armed human smuggler after he allegedly attempted to circumvent an interior immigration checkpoint in Southern California. The agents also arrested a group of migrants with the smuggler.
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents arrested two human smugglers who were allegedly armed with an AR-15 rifle. The agents also arrested three Mexican nationals who entered the U.S. illegally.
The apprehension of migrants along the southwestern border with Mexico during the month of April fell 84 percent from the same month in 2019. Agents apprehended a total of 15,862 migrants after they illegally crossed the border.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents seized nearly 50 pounds of liquid methamphetamine at an inland immigration checkpoint located about 80 miles north of the border. In addition, agents patrolling near Brownsville, Texas, found four smuggling “mules” carrying more than 65 pounds of marijuana.
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended another 54 migrants locked in a tractor-trailer rig. The arrest occurred at an interior immigration checkpoint located about 70 miles north of the Texas-Mexico border.
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents stopped two human smuggling attempts involving tractor-trailer rigs at an interior immigration checkpoint near the Texas border with Mexico. The interactions led to the apprehension of 48 migrants and two U.S. citizens for an investigation related to human smuggling.
The number of migrants rescued in the Laredo Sector jumped 57 percent this fiscal year despite the lower overall number of illegal border crossings due to Coronavirus fears and policies.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a previously deported violent criminal alien after he illegally crossed from Mexico into Texas. A Texas court previously convicted the Mexican national for attempted murder. He was deported after serving his sentence.
A search and rescue operation involving federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies led to the rescue of two migrants lost in the Arizona desert near Gila Bend.
El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents rescued four illegal border crossers who became lost in the Jacumba Mountain Wilderness on April 23. The agents found the four people severely dehydrated but otherwise in good health before processing them for return to Mexico.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents arrested two groups of smugglers and illegal immigrants following vehicle pursuits. One of the chases ended when the alleged smuggler lost control and crashed into a building.
Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended two groups of migrants, including five from south Asia, after they illegally crossed the border from Mexico into Arizona.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents rescued a migrant attempting to illegally cross the Rio Grande from Mexico. After clearing the man medically, he was returned to Mexico under Trump Administration Coronavirus protocols.
Border Patrol officials in the Tucson Sector say cartel-connected human smugglers are not deterred by the Coronavirus pandemic as they continue to push migrants into the United States. Over the Easter weekend, agents in the sector disrupted two smuggling attempts.
The apprehension of migrants who illegally cross the southwest border with Mexico by Border Patrol agents decreased slightly in March. The March apprehensions exceed those in January.
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents found a large group of migrants who were locked inside a tractor-trailer. The agents disrupted the human smuggling attempt at the Interstate 35 immigration checkpoint located between Laredo and San Antonio.
El Paso Sector Border Patrol agents found a migrant locked in the trunk of a car and a stolen vehicle in two separate incidents at immigration checkpoints.
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended 40 migrants who were locked inside a trailer after they entered the U.S. The agents found the migrants at the Interstate 35 Immigration Checkpoint in South Texas.
Detroit Sector Border Patrol agents working near the Canadian border with Michigan arrested four illegal aliens from Brazil during an alleged human smuggling attempt.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents rescued an injured 15-year-old girl who Mexican cartel-connected human smugglers abandoned in the middle of the Rio Grande.
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents arrested two previously deported sex offenders within hours of each other on Tuesday. The arrests occurred after the two men illegally crossed near Sasabe and Amando, Arizona.
San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents rescued a pair of migrants who became stranded in cold conditions in the mountains near the California border with Mexico.
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents stopped a collection of 90 migrants from being smuggled into the U.S. interior. The cartel-connected smugglers locked 90 migrants, including five unaccompanied juveniles, inside a tractor-trailer.
A federal court in Maine sentenced a Mexican national to eight months time served for smuggling a group of Mexican migrants across the Canadian border.
El Centro Sector Customs and Border Protection officers arrested a human smuggler after she allegedly stashed a migrant inside the rear seat of her vehicle.
El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a previously convicted murderer in connection to an alleged human smuggling attempt. The man allegedly attempted to sneak three Mexican nationals through an interior immigration checkpoint.
Rio Grande Valley Sector agents rescued a migrant who became injured near the Texas border with Mexico. Human smugglers abandoned and left him to die after he could no longer keep pace.
A foreign national allegedly attacked a Laredo Sector Border Patrol agent during a human smuggling attempt on a Texas ranch. Agents arrested the Mexican man and charged him with multiple federal felony offenses.
A Bangladeshi national pleaded guilty in a federal court in Laredo, Texas, on Friday to his role in a conspiracy to smuggle hundreds of his fellow countrymen into the United States. Prosecutors called the smuggling operation a “national security risk.”
San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents rescued a Mexican migrant after he injured his leg in a canyon past the California border with Mexico. Human smugglers abandoned the man after he suffered a “severe leg injury” and left him to die.
Turkish people-smugglers are operating freely along the Greek border, charging migrants just £11 to get past Greek border patrol guards.
Border Patrol agents in the Grand Forks Sector arrested a Guatemalan man wanted in Colorado for sexual assault of a minor. The arrest occurred during a targeted enforcement operation on February 28 in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
Human smugglers from Mexico forced 16 migrants to jump into the Pacific Ocean about one mile off the California coast near Del Mar. Three are missing after what officials called a “dump and run” smuggling tactic.
U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended 1,155 Chinese migrants this fiscal year after they illegally entered from Mexico, Canada, or coastal boundaries. More than 95 percent came over the southwestern border between October 1, 2019, and January 31, 2020.
McAllen, Texas — A Breitbart News videographer recently joined a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Air and Marine Operations (AMO) aircrew during a night mission. The aircrew provides assistance to ground-based agents in the apprehension of migrants and drugs being smuggled across the Texas-Mexico border.
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents rescued a migrant woman being held against her will in a stash house near Mexico. In total, agents found 37 people inside the small house.
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents disrupted several human smuggling operations last week, including one involving an armed smuggler. Smugglers locked several of the migrants into the trunks of their vehicles.
San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended eight migrants including three men from Yemen during a failed human smuggling attempt off the California coast.
