Two House Republicans vying for the top spot on the Homeland Security Committee gave rival speeches at a press event on Tuesday during a border visit.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents arrested two sex offenders within a two-hour period on Monday after they illegally crossed into Texas.
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended a large group of migrants along the border wall west of Lukeville, Arizona, coming from eight nations.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents arrested two previously deported child sex offenders on Veterans Day. One of the migrants arrested while attempting to avoid apprehension, a Salvadoran National, has a criminal conviction from a New York court for raping a disabled child.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents rescued an unconscious migrant found near the Texas border with Mexico. After providing initial medical assistance, agents arranged transportation for the migrant to an area hospital.
The Biden Administration began Fiscal Year 2023 with a record-setting 204,000 migrant apprehensions in October. The late-night announcement on Monday followed the forced resignation of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Chris Magnus.
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a human smuggler who packed a group of migrants into the cargo area of an SUV near the Arizona border with Mexico. The migrants included three tender-aged children.
A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper discovered ten migrants hiding in a work truck during a traffic stop near the border. The alleged human smuggler told troopers he was paid $500 per migrant to hide them in his truck.
Texas DPS troopers and Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley arrested two human smugglers following a pursuit that ended in a crash. Police found a loaded handgun on one of the teens.
Texas Department of Public Safety troopers teamed up with Border Patrol agents to interdict drug and human smuggling incidents near the Rio Grande border with Mexico. Agents also apprehended two large migrant groups who crossed near Rio Grande City, Texas.
Agents assigned to the five Texas-based Border Patrol sectors apprehended more than 130,000 migrants during the first month of the new fiscal year, according to a source operating within U.S. Customs and Border Protection. This represents approximately 63 percent of all apprehensions along the U.S.-Mexico Border in October.
Texas police and National Guard soldiers find a group of 13 migrants in the brush along the bank of the Rio Grande border with Mexico. The Department of Public Safety troopers and National Guardsmen routinely patrol these areas under Governor Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star.
The brother of fallen Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, who was murdered in 2010 with guns that walked to Mexico during the Fast and Furious scandal, shamed Democrats on Friday for “turning their backs” on border patrol agents.
A migrant woman from Cuba died while crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico into Texas on Wednesday morning. The woman appears to have suffered cardiac arrest following an asthma attack while crossing the border river.
During the first month of the new fiscal year, Border Patrol agents apprehended approximately 204,000 migrants who illegally crossed the border between ports of entry. In October 2021, Agents apprehended a record-setting 159,113 migrants. This October shatters that record with an increase of more than 28 percent.
Detroit Sector Border Patrol agents arrested two previously deported Mexican nationals in a targeted operation late last week. One suspect is a 38-year-old criminal alien wanted in Michigan for Criminal Sexual Conduct with a Person Under Thirteen, officials stated.
Large groups of migrants continue to cross into the nation’s busiest border sector by the hundreds. Some groups contain 300-400 mostly single adults. Recent policy changes by the Biden Administration to return migrants to Mexico have had little impact on crossing numbers.
Venezuelan migrants protesting changes in Biden Administration immigration policies attacked El Paso Border Patrol agents with a pole bearing a large flag from their home nation. Another migrant threw a rock at an agent, causing an injury. The agents responded by firing pepper balls to drive the migrants back to the river.
A CBS report of record-setting migrant deaths along the U.S.-Mexico Border may be grossly understated, a source with U.S. Customs and Border Protection told Breitbart Texas. The report is based on the remains of 853 migrants recovered by Border Patrol agents.
A Mexican migrant who illegally entered the U.S. in Arizona on January 6 pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to attempting to kill a Border Patrol agent. The migrant pointed the agent’s gun at him, slashed at the agent with a knife, and attempted to gouge out his eyes.
A human smuggler allegedly drove his SUV directly into a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle while attempting to avoid apprehension. The head-on collision left no one with serious injuries.
The driver of a U-Haul box truck in Arizona led Border Patrol agents on a high-speed pursuit with a group of migrants locked in the rear cargo area. The migrants had no means of escape in the event of a crash or abandonment.
Swanton Sector Border Patrol agents in Vermont arrested two migrants for human smuggling who illegally crossed the border into Texas as children and were subsequently released. The agents arrested the pair as they attempted to smuggle five migrants who crossed the Canadian border into Vermont and allegedly got in their vehicle.
A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper working in Laredo, Texas, observed a group of people suspected to be in the U.S. illegally get into the back of a commercial tractor-trailer. The trooper, working under Operation Lone Star stopped the truck for an inspection and found 11 people.
El Paso Sector Border Patrol agents shot and killed a migrant who allegedly attacked them while in custody in a detention facility. The man reportedly grabbed a pair of scissors from a desk and moved aggressively toward two Border Patrol agents.
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents interdicted a human smuggling attempt during a traffic stop on Interstate 10 in Arizona.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 10,000 migrants during the past week. Officials report another 3,344 migrants are known got-aways who escaped without being apprehended.
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents found a group of 32 Guatemalan migrants who illegally crossed the border near San Miguel, Arizona, last week. The group consisted of 30 migrant children and two adults.
El Paso Sector Border Patrol agents rescued a group of 41 migrants being held in a makeshift human stash house. The smugglers utilized a tow-behind travel trailer to hold the migrants.
A police pursuit near Uvalde, Texas, led to the arrest of a suspected human smuggler and the apprehension of 13 migrants from Mexico. The fleeing smuggler endangered the migrants and other drivers on the highway by recklessly driving at high speeds in an attempt to avoid arrest.
Texas sheriff’s deputies responded with Border Patrol agents after receiving a tip about a suspicious tractor-trailer in a residential neighborhood near the border. The law enforcement team found 84 migrants who had been offloaded from the 18-wheeler.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection marine unit rescued four migrants from a sinking boat off the coast of Texas. The Air and Marine Operations agents worked with the U.S. Coast Guard to carry out the rescue operation.
A Tucson Sector Horse Patrol Unit Border Patrol agent sustained a serious injury while on patrol near the Arizona-Mexico border. A CBP Air and Marine Operations Blackhawk aircrew airlifted the agent to a Tucson hospital for emergency medical care.
As the federal government begins a new fiscal year, migrant border crossings and apprehensions immediately began to climb. As Breitbart Texas watched, border crossings in the nation’s busiest sector continued unabated. Within a few short hours Saturday morning, nearly 300 migrants had already been apprehended near Eagle Pass, Texas.
Border Patrol agents apprehended a record-setting 2.2 million migrants who illegally crossed the southwest border with Mexico, according to a source within U.S. Customs and Border Protection. In addition, the unofficial year-end numbers show an estimate of nearly 604,000 migrant got-aways.
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents arrested two armed human smugglers who reportedly locked a group of 33 migrants in a horse trailer. Agents also seized two pistols and $16,000 in cash.
A photojournalist captured graphic video of Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents pulling the body of a drowned migrant to the U.S. bank of the Rio Grande. The incident took place in Eagle Pass, Texas, where migrant drownings are now commonplace.
Two people are reported dead and ten others injured in a crash in Uvalde, Texas, on Wednesday evening. The crash happened after Border Patrol agents reportedly spotted a speeding black truck driving recklessly outside the city and notified local police.
State and federal law enforcement agencies teamed up to arrest an alleged human smuggler in West Texas who reportedly held a migrant toddler for ransom. The arrest followed a traffic stop by a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper working under Operation Lone Star.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 10,000 migrants last week in what has become the nation’s busiest sector. Nearly 3,000 more migrants are known to have gotten away without being caught.