Tucson Sector Border Patrol officials honored five agents who put their own lives in danger to rescue two migrants locked inside the trunk of a burning vehicle. The vehicle caught fire as a human smuggler attempted to flee and avoid apprehension.
Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents rescued two migrants who became lost in the Arizona desert after illegally crossing the border. Border Patrol teams responded to a 911 call and provided emergency medical assistance.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 2,600 migrants during the Mother’s Day Weekend. Agents also interdicted 16 human smuggling loads, rescued 12 migrants, and recovered the remains of eight deceased migrants.
Swanton Sector Border Patrol agents joined local law enforcement and first responders to rescue a group of Indian nationals crossing the Saint Regis River from Canada into New York. Their overloaded craft began to sink into near-freezing water.
Mexican authorities found the body of an Angolan migrant child who went missing on May 2 during an illegal border crossing near the Del Rio International Bridge. The young boy disappeared after being swept away along with his brother. The parents survived the crossing.
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents rescued a migrant woman found on a Texas ranch near the border. The woman became unconscious after sustaining an injury.
El Paso Sector Border Patrol agents working in New Mexico rescued seven migrants in the desert in as many days. Human smugglers abandoned the seven migrants where they could have died or become seriously ill from heat and dehydration.
EAGLE PASS, Texas — The search for a missing Texas Army National Guard soldier last seen entering the Rio Grande to rescue a migrant north of Eagle Pass on Friday resumed on Saturday morning. An extensive search involving a Border Patrol dive team and other law enforcement resources was suspended late Friday.
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.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents rescued 12 migrants from drowning in the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass, Texas, in a single afternoon.
Laredo Sector Marine Unit agents rescued a drowning migrant struggling to cross the Rio Grande illegally from Mexico into 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.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents rescued a Nicaraguan migrant mother of three from drowning in the Rio Grande. The woman became stranded while illegally crossing the border from Mexico into Texas.
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.
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.
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.
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.
El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents rescued a migrant struggling to cross the swiftly moving All-American Canal in Southern California. The agents rescued the migrant just upstream from a 49-foot drop in May of 2021.
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.
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents teamed up with a CBP Air and Marine Operations helicopter aircrew to rescue a severely dehydrated woman near the border in Arizona. The woman called 911 after being abandoned by human smugglers in the Baboquivari Mountains.
Del Rio and Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents rescued two migrants in separate human smuggling incidents in South Texas. In one, agents rescued a woman being swept away in the Rio Grande.
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents rescued a group of migrants who became lost in the Huachuca Mountains near the Arizona border with Mexico. Agents found one of the migrants, a woman, to be severely dehydrated and had to carry her out of danger.
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.
El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents rescued a lost migrant in the Jacumba Wilderness near the California border with Mexico. The rescue occurred shortly before the Christmas holiday weekend after local dispatchers received a distress call from the lost Salvadoran.
A federal court in California sentenced two human smugglers to prison following the drowning of a migrant during a maritime incident in May. The smugglers forced migrants unable to swim into the water, leading to one person’s death.
Polish border guards and soldiers rescued four Middle Eastern migrants after receiving a distress call that they had become stuck in a bog after illegally crossing the border from Belarus.
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents rescued a migrant after he fell from a cliff in the Patagonia Mountains. The migrant became immobilized from his injuries for two days prior to being rescued by the agents.
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents rescued a severely dehydrated two-year-old migrant child after her mother brought her illegally into the United States from Mexico. The child required transportation to a hospital after emergency medical services were performed in the field.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents rescued a five-year-old girl after human smugglers abandoned her on an island in the Rio Grande. Video released by Border Patrol shows marine unit agents reuniting the girl with her mother.
El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents teamed up with other local and federal assets to rescue an injured migrant near the California border with Mexico. The search and rescue effort led to saving the life of a migrant who injured his ankle shortly after crossing the border near Ocotillo, California on Thursday morning.
Local officials in West Texas expended a costly effort to rescue a group of migrants locked inside a grain-hopper rail car. The migrants were locked inside the rail car with no means of escape without assistance.
El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents rescued a group of migrants who became lost in the Jacumba Wilderness near the California border with Mexico. One of the female migrants required medical attention.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents rescued a Mexican migrant after he fell from a 20-foot cliff in Eagle Pass, Texas. The migrant required transportation to a San Antonio hospital for treatment of his injuries.
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended three large groups of migrants over the weekend near Sasabe, Arizona. Unaccompanied migrant children made up more than half of each group, according to Border Patrol officials.
Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector helped deliver the baby of a migrant woman who had just crossed from Mexico. The delivery took place in a field along the Rio Grande near La Joya, Texas, last week.
U.S. Coast Guardsmen responded to a notification of an overturned boat about 100 miles off the coast of Southern California. The search led to the rescue of 25 people who had been hanging to the small craft for approximately three days.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations aircrew and U.S. Border Patrol agents teamed up to rescue a dehydrated migrant who became lost in the mountains of southern Arizona.
U.S. policies and the failure to enforce laws have created strong pull factors which encourage migrants of all ages to risk the dangerous journey across the border. Barriers or walls in urban areas encourage those migrants to enter the U.S. in remote and dangerous places where those barriers or walls have not yet been built. Many of those migrants are children, and below are 30 times U.S. Border Patrol agents rescued them in 2021.
Border Patrol agents working along the southwest U.S. border with Mexico continue to rescue migrants left in distress by human smugglers.
