The Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley Sector chief told Breitbart Texas his agents apprehended migrants from at least 52 countries, including many from nations with connections to terrorism.
Border Patrol agents assigned to the Laredo Sector apprehended nearly 700 Bangladeshi nationals during Fiscal Year 2018. This represents an increase of nearly 270 percent over the previous year’s total.
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 arrested an Iranian national after he illegally crossed the border near the Laredo, Texas, downtown sector. There are no physical barriers separating Laredo from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.
Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), tells Breitbart News Daily that countries that are known to support radical Islamic terrorism are “cutting deals” with Mexican cartels for access to human smuggling routes into the United States.
The number of illegals from terror-linked countries, officially known as Special Interest Aliens (SIAs), arrested along the U.S.-Mexico border has nearly doubled to 462 in 2015 alone, from 255 in 2011, the last year for which the government released data without a FOIA request.
U.S. officials are trying to establish closer cooperation with various Latin American nations to combat an increase in the number of illegal migrants from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East attempting to sneak into the United States.
Central American authorities have reportedly dismantled a human trafficking network dedicated to smuggling illegal migrants into the United States from terror-linked countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
Hundreds of pro-Syrian refugee activists took to the streets of Austin, Texas, this weekend to protest Governor Greg Abbott’s order to refuse the resettlement of Syrian refugees into Texas. One week ago, the Texas governor ordered state agencies not to participate in any federal resettlement programs. He also urged the White House to stop its program of bringing un-vetted Syrian refugees into America. Abbott partnered with at least thirty other governors in refusing the refugees from Syria.
