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U.S. Border Patrol agents seized a vehicle that had been cloned by human smugglers to look like a service truck.

U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Rio Grande Valley Sector rescued 36 illegal immigrants who were being warehoused by human smugglers just north of the Texas/Mexico border.

U.S. Border Patrol agents continue to block dangerous criminals and sex offenders from re-entering the United States after being deported for their crimes.

Officers assigned to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in Texas seized over $500,000 in drugs this week at international border crossings from Mexico.

An illegal immigrant from El Salvador used the social media WhatsApp program to help Border Patrol agents find him when he became lost in South Texas.

U.S. Border Patrol agents working in south Texas have arrested twelve previously deported sex offenders in the past 12 days.

U.S. Border Patrol agents working in Hidalgo County, Texas, busted an illegal immigrant stash house where more than 50 foreign nationals were being held.

Border Patrol agents working out of the Weslaco Station in the Rio Grande Valley Sector rescued two illegal immigrant children who were suffering the effects of the extreme south Texas heat on Monday.

Border Patrol agents working near the border community of Havana, Texas, rescued a woman who had crossed the border from Mexico and was abandoned by her smugglers, left to die.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz visited the Laredo Sector of the U.S.-Mexico border and did not contact Border Patrol agents to discuss their needs. According to the agents, Senator Cruz has yet to contact them through his freshman term in the U.S. Senate.

A Salvadoran woman and her wounded 4-year-old daughter were rescued in south Texas shortly after midnight Tuesday. The child had been shot in Mexico four days earlier during a train robbery by smugglers.

A woman attempted to smuggle methamphetamine into Texas from Mexico by hiding the drugs under her clothing and those of her infant child. The discovery was made by Federal officers working at the Brownsville Port of Entry from Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Elsewhere on the Texas border with Mexico, an additional $500,000 worth of methamphetamine and cocaine were seized in a separate smuggling attempt.

Federal officers seized over $200K-worth of cocaine at the World Trade Bridge in Laredo, Texas on July 27.

U.S. Border Patrol agents in Laredo, Texas, risked their lives by jumping into the Rio Grande River to rescue four illegal aliens who nearly drowned crossing from Mexico. Though heavily unreported, Border Patrol agents frequently put their lives at risk to rescue illegal aliens who have put themselves in dangerous situations.

Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector raided a human smuggling stash house near the Texas border with Mexico and captured 28 illegal aliens.

U.S. Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector busted five previously deported criminal aliens including three with sex crimes against children. Agents also rescued seven illegal aliens who had been abandoned in 100+ degree heat by human smugglers.

U.S. Border Patrol agents from the Rio Grande Valley Sector raided a human smuggling stash house in Edinburg, Texas and captured 35 illegal immigrants.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seized large loads of cocaine and marijuana at two separate Texas ports of entry. The drugs were being smuggled in from Mexico.

Border Patrol agents assigned to the Falfurrias Station saved the life of one illegal alien who was abandoned by his human smugglers and left to die. Three others were not as lucky after succumbing to the harsh conditions in the ranch fields located about 80 miles north of the Texas-Mexico border.

Federal authorities working at Texas/Mexico border crossings arrested two women in separate incidents who were allegedly smuggling a total of $250,000 in methamphetamine.

Officers with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Service (CBP) seized over $1 million worth of cocaine in separate incidents at multiple Texas border ports of entry.

A two-year-old toddler was found by U.S. Border Patrol agents wandering near the Rio Grande River in Hidalgo, Texas. This is the third time in ten days a toddler or minor has been abandoned by smugglers in this sector.

WESLACO, Texas – The most wide open area along the Texas border may soon get a boost in law enforcement presence as well as technology, said Texas Governor Greg Abbott. The border city of Laredo and its surrounding areas has a long history of being used for drug and human smuggling by the Los Zetas cartel. A lack of a border fence and populated areas just yards from the Rio Grande have led to detentions of illegal immigrants and drug smugglers around city streets Breitbart Texas previously published.

Breitbart Texas obtained internal federal government photos depicting the conditions of foreign children warehoused by authorities on U.S. soil on Wednesday night. Thousands of illegal immigrants have overrun U.S. border security and their processing centers in Texas along the U.S./Mexico border. Unaccompanied minors, including young girls under the age of 12, are making the dangerous journey from Central America and Mexico, through cartel-controlled territories, and across the porous border onto U.S. soil.