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.
Uvalde, Texas, police officers found a group of migrants packed inside a dump trailer about 50 miles north of the border with Mexico.
The Del Rio Border Patrol Sector is dominated with large groups of migrants crossing the border. The detention centers in this sector are substantially overcrowded forcing the rapid release of migrants into the communities along the border.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents rescued a four-year-old girl after human smugglers carried her across the Rio Grande and abandoned her on the riverbank. The little girl is the same age as another child who recently drowned in this area after being swept from the mother’s arms.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents found an unaccompanied five-year-old boy at a Rio Grande crossing point near Eagle Pass, Texas. The child, traveling with a group of 83 migrants, had no parents with him or contact information for family members.
Border Patrol agents in the nation’s busiest sector continue to be overwhelmed by large migrant groups. Over the past weekend, Del Rio Sector agents apprehended nearly 2,500 migrants.
Border Patrol agents in West Texas report increasing numbers of incidents involving the use of trains for human smuggling.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
A massive migrant surge in the Del Rio Sector is threatening to make this the busiest of the nine southwest Border Patrol sectors, according to Chief Patrol Agent Jason D. Owens. With approximately 4,000 apprehended over the Martin Luther King holiday weekend and nearly 1,000 more on Tuesday, the Del Rio Sector is leading the Rio Grande Valley Sector for January apprehensions.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended approximately 4,400 migrants over the three-day holiday weekend. In addition, the agents interdicted 27 human smuggling incidents and responded to 11 rescue calls.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a large number of migrants from “special interest” nations so far this month. The group included migrants from nations known to have terrorist activities.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents kicked off the new year with the apprehension of 2,200 migrants. The apprehension included a little girl who made what officials called “the treacherous journey” by herself.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents rescued three migrants who became endangered in the Rio Grande as they crossed from Mexico to Texas. In one incident, the agents rescued a man and his one-year-old child.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 2,700 migrants over the Christmas weekend, adding to the nearly 30,000 in November.
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended approximately 100 migrants packed into trains and a box truck over the past week. The human smugglers packed the migrants in dangerous and inhumane situations in attempts to move them into the U.S. interior.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 2,000 migrants in two days. The surge of migrants comes as the Biden administration continues to release thousands into the U.S. interior and warehouse them in overcrowded detention facilities that exceed COVID-19
A Del Rio Sector Border Patrol riverine unit rescued three migrants from the swiftly moving currents of the Rio Grande in dangerous conditions.
A migrant woman from Guatemala reportedly abandoned her son on the Texas side of the Rio Grande and returned to Mexico. Border Patrol agents found the child with a group of 13 migrants, Laredo Sector officials reported.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents continue to apprehend migrants from a multitude of nations who cross the border illegally from Mexico into Texas. Recent apprehensions include migrants from what Border Patrol classifies as “special interest” nations including East African, Middle Eastern, and Asian nations.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 1,500 migrants over the past weekend. Officials say many of the large groups are making the dangerous river crossing at night.
Houlton Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended three migrants from three countries after stopping to assist a stranded motorist. Two of the migrants entered the U.S. illegally along the southern border while the third overstayed a visa.
Prosecutors in the Southern District of Texas arrested a Bangladeshi national and charged him with smuggling fellow countrymen to the U.S. The arrest follows a guilty plea last week from one of his co-conspirators.
A Bangladeshi national pleaded guilty in a Texas federal court Tuesday to smuggling numerous fellow countrymen into the United States. The smuggling network moved the Bangladeshi nationals, mostly men between the ages of 18-35, to South America where they made their way through Central America and Mexico.
Houlton Sector Border Patrol agents arrested two Mexican nationals after they illegally crossed the Canadian border into Maine. One of the migrants had previously been deported.
The arrest of Bangladeshi nationals crossing the border illegally from Mexico into Texas in the Laredo Sector topped 500 for the year. Agents have now arrested 502 Bangladeshi nationals since the beginning of Fiscal Year 2018.
Border Patrol agents in the Laredo Sector stopped a previously deported Mexican national who served prison time for murder and an MS-13 member from El Salvador from successfully making their way into the U.S. interior.
Human smugglers packed 20 illegal immigrants into the back of a tractor-trailer rig in South Texas.
Border Patrol agents arrested seven more Bangladeshi nationals this week after they illegally crossed the border from Mexico. The seven Bangladeshis bring this fiscal year’s total to 251 arrests in this single sector.
U.S. Border Patrol agents in the Laredo Sector teamed up with officials of the Mexican Government to interdict and seize $8 million in drugs shipped through a port of entry earlier this month.
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents arrested eight more Bangladeshi nationals after they illegally crossed the border in south Laredo. The arrests occurred in an area where agents arrested more than 230 Bangladeshis this fiscal year.
The Laredo Sector has 170 miles of riverbank separating Mexico from Texas and zero miles of fencing or walls, says the local border chief–allowing Mexican drug cartels to move large quantities of drugs and human cargo into the U.S.
Border Patrol agents in the Laredo Sector are sounding the alarm after they recently apprehended two Syrian nationals who illegally crossed the border from Mexico into South Texas. The agents say the arrest of the Syrians confirms there is a human smuggling pipeline from countries with connections to terrorism into the U.S.
Border Patrol agents in the Laredo Sector arrested more than 190 Bangladeshi nationals who illegally crossed the border from Mexico into Texas since October 1, 2017. This number of illegal border crossers from a country that many call a hotbed of terrorism is more than were arrested in all of Fiscal Year 2017, officials told Breitbart Texas on Thursday.
