A Texas Department of Public Safety helicopter aircrew operating in the remote West Texas Big Bend Sector captured video of a group of migrants attempting to flee on foot. The group of 32 migrants can be seen wearing camouflage to avoid detection and apprehension.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents rescued seven migrants who were swept away by strong currents in the Rio Grande. The rescues occurred in a single night crossing of the border river between Texas and Mexico.
More than a half-million migrants illegally crossed the southwest border with Mexico during a 10-week period ending on May 15. The record-setting mass migration crisis is overwhelming Border Patrol and NGO resources as they deal with the chaotic level of border crossings.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents recovered the bodies of three migrants in a single day this week who died after crossing the border.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents working along the Rio Grande border with Mexico encountered six large groups of migrants in two days. The agents apprehended a total of nearly 1,000 migrants who illegally crossed through two border-crossing points.
Border Patrol agents in the five Texas-based sectors apprehended more than 63 percent of all migrants captured along the southwest border with Mexico. The agents apprehended more than 128,000 migrants just in the month of April — more than 750,000 in year-to-date reports.
El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents observed two migrants jumping out of a human smuggler’s vehicle during a pursuit near the border in California. The agents provided aid to the injured migrants and arrested the smuggler.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents continue to report the crossings of thousands of migrants from Mexico into Texas. Videos show multiple streams of migrants illegally crossing the Rio Grande, hundreds at a time.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials declared the borders of the United States “are not open” while releasing a report showing the apprehension of more than 200,000 migrants illegally crossing the border with Mexico.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents encountered five large groups of migrants who illegally crossed the border during a 31-hour period over the weekend. Three of the groups crossed within 10 hours of each other.
El Paso Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 1,200 migrants in a single day over the past weekend. The apprehended migrants included citizens of four nations — including Turkey.
A migrant woman living in Texas told a South Texas border rancher that she “expects” the federal government to deliver her smuggled child to her. A migrant woman, apparently unknown to the family, smuggled the child across the Rio Grande after being handed the child by human smugglers.
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.
Hundreds of migrants continue crossing the border into an overwhelmed Texas border sector near Eagle Pass, Texas. At one crossing, only two Border Patrol agents were on hand to process more than 100 migrants.
A Tucson Sector Border Patrol agent will not face state charges in connection to the shooting death of a migrant who attempted to throw a large rock at the agent while attempting to flee. Investigators in Cochise County, Arizona, said the shooting was “justified.”
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents encountered a group of 68 migrants who illegally crossed the border from Mexico into the Arizona desert. The migrants mostly came to the U.S. from Cuba.
Border Patrol agents in the Del Rio and Rio Grande Valley Sectors apprehended more than 1,400 migrants in nine large groups after they illegally crossed from Mexico into Texas. The migrants came to the U.S. from multiple nations.
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.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended four large groups of migrants last week. The four groups totaled 685 migrants — mostly single adults.
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.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended 67 migrants in five failed human smuggling events on May 3. In one of the incidents, agents found 25 migrants packed in a tractor-trailer hauling a load of onions.
Big Bend Sector Border Patrol agents teamed up with state and federal aviation aircrews to locate and apprehend 20 migrants hiding in the mountains south of Van Horn, Texas.
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a female U.S. citizen for allegedly smuggling a group of seven migrants near the border in Arizona.
Border Patrol agents in multiple southwest border sectors apprehended previously deported child sex offenders and violent gang members.
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.
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents arrested 29 migrants who had been packed by human smugglers into a motor home for transport through the desert near the Mexico border.
Two cartel-connected human smugglers will spend five years in prison for leaving at least three migrants to die in South Texas while trying to trek around a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint.
El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended a group of more than 50 migrants after they illegally crossed the New River into California. Officials called the river “one of the most polluted bodies of water in North America.”
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.
Big Bend Sector Border Patrol agents may have saved the lives of 48 migrants locked inside a tractor-trailer near Sierra Blanca, Texas, on Saturday. Agents found the migrants during an inspection at the Interstate 10 immigration checkpoint.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents found three large groups of migrants who crossed the border into Starr County, Texas. The three groups combined for a total of 517 migrants.
EAGLE PASS, Texas — U.S. Border Patrol agents found the body of a Texas National Guard Soldier who disappeared Friday morning after rescuing two migrants. U.S. officials recovered the body and transported the decedent to the Texas bank of the Rio Grande Monday morning.
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents interdicted nine human smuggling attempts utilizing tractor-trailer rigs during the past week. The searches of the trailers led to the apprehension of nearly 500 migrants from this single method of conveyance.
Houlton Sector Border Patrol agents teamed up with Maine law enforcement to take 22 migrants illegally in the country into custody. Those arrested include a previously deported Mexican national with a conviction for human smuggling and illegal re-entry after removal.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents and Texas Department of Public Safety troopers found a group of migrants hidden in a cattle trailer. Human smugglers packed the migrants in an un-ventilated compartment under bales of hay.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents found an unaccompanied two-year-old migrant toddler with a group of 38 migrants who illegally crossed the border near Roma, Texas. No one in the group admitted to knowing anything about the Honduran child.
Border Patrol agents in the five Texas-based border sectors apprehended nearly 627,000 migrants since October. This represents approximately 62 percent of all migrant apprehensions along the U.S. southwest border.
Border Patrol officials report that agents apprehended nearly 210,000 migrants who illegally crossed the southwest border with Mexico in March. The apprehensions mark a new record for the Biden administration as they move closer to ending the Title 42 migrant expulsion program.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki refused to address reports showing the agents involved with the accusations were cleared of criminal wrongdoing, despite accusations from President Joe Biden and other administration officials that they were guilty of whipping or “strapping” the migrants.
Border Patrol agents arrested 23 migrants who illegally crossed from Mexico in 2021 and subsequently were identified as being on the Terrorist Watch List. The former head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection wonders what happened to those 23 migrants.
