A federal court in South Texas sentenced a member of the Mexican Mafia gang to 33 months in prison for his role in a human smuggling scheme. The conviction came from a May 2021 incident where Rafael Alberto Cazarez, Jr. drove 54 migrants trapped inside a tank.
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents deterred a group of 20 migrants from crossing the Rio Grande on flotation devices. The agents turned back the group attempting to illegally enter Texas.
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.
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents found a group of migrants locked inside a tractor-trailer at an immigration checkpoint in South Texas. The migrants were locked inside the trailer with no means of escape in the event of a crash or abandonment by the human smugglers.
Border Patrol agents in two Texas sectors found groups of migrants being smuggled in dump trailers in attempts to circumvent interior immigration checkpoints. The interdictions led to the apprehensions of 24 migrants and the recovery of a stolen truck.
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.
A report credited to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials by Fox News shows that the number of Border Patrol agents who could be terminated under President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates could exceed 50 percent of the workforce. This comes amid the record-setting apprehension of migrants illegally crossing the border from Mexico.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents encountered a large group of South American migrants after they illegally entered the U.S. near Eagle Pass, Texas. Large group crossings in this sector forced Biden administration officials to reopen the infamous outdoor detention area under the Del Rio International Bridge.
A federal grand jury indicted ten people for their roles in an alleged human smuggling incident that killed eight migrants. The deaths occurred in March when an alleged smuggler fled from police and crashed into oncoming traffic.
The Biden administration reopened the infamous outdoor detention area that once held 15,000 mostly Haitian migrants for processing and transport. According to a source within U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Border Patrol officials detained more than 100 mostly Central American migrants under the Del Rio International Bridge on Saturday as overnight temperatures fell into the low 50s.
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.
Border Patrol officials in West Texas tweeted a photograph of the startling discovery of a small child packed in a duffel bag. Agents found the endangered child in a vehicle at an immigration checkpoint in the Del Rio Sector.
Human smugglers in Arizona endangered the lives of three migrant children by packing them with seven adults in the bed of a pickup truck. Border Patrol officials report the migrants were hidden under plywood in the rear of the truck.
VP Harris was in New York on Monday vowing that she and President Joe Biden will mete out “environmental justice” as domestic crises continue.
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents responded to a dangerous human smuggling incident where 26 migrants were packed into a work van. These types of incidents make the vehicle unstable and frequently end in deadly crashes.
Border Patrol documents show that agents apprehended nearly 160,000 migrants who illegally crossed the border during the first month of the new fiscal year. The information shows an increase of nearly 129 percent over October 2020.
Vice President Kamala Harris is in New York on Monday to promote the use of electric trucks while border encounters are up 314 Percent
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.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents found a group of 75 migrants locked inside a refrigerated tractor-trailer rig at an immigration checkpoint near the Texas-Mexico border. The migrants locked inside the 58-degree trailer included a four-year-old child.
“The blood is on this administration’s hands,” Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) said of what he described as “an invasion” of migrants across the U.S.-Mexico border in an interview on Wednesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with special guest host Jerome Hudson.
San Diego Sector Border Patrol officials announced an alarming trend of “dangerous failure-to-yield” incidents involving human smugglers. Officials say the 475 percent increase in pursuits in October led to crashes causing serious injuries and hospitalizations.
An alleged pair of female human smugglers led Texas Department of Public Safety troopers on a pursuit with five migrants on board. The armed driver lost control and crashed following the lengthy pursuit.
Big Bend Sector Border Patrol agents working an immigration checkpoint near Sierra Blanca, Texas, found a group of 31 migrants hiding in a tractor-trailer loaded with crushed aluminum cans.
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents patrolling the Rio Grande turned back a group of migrants attempting to illegally enter the United States.
Border Patrol agents in South Texas continue to find “large groups” of migrants streaming across the Rio Grande from Mexico. The large groups continue the record-setting trend of migrant crossings that led to the apprehension of more than 1.7 million in the recently ended fiscal year.
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended a large group of mostly Central American migrants including 81 unaccompanied migrant children.
More than two million migrants illegally crossed the border from Mexico into the United States during Fiscal Year 2021. The crossings include 1.66 million apprehended by Border Patrol agents and an estimated 400,000 classified as “got aways.”
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.
El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents found a group of eight migrants locked inside a white delivery van near Niland, Arizona, officials stated. The driver of the van with fake FedEx markings initially represented himself as a delivery man.
Border Patrol agents working along the southwest U.S. border with Mexico continue to rescue migrants left in distress by human smugglers.
Border Patrol agents in Texas arrested two deported child sex offenders in separate incidents in the Laredo and Big Bend Sectors. Also, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested two men wanted for sex crimes against children at border crossing points.
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents rescued a pair of small children after a human smuggler abandoned them in the Rio Grande border with Mexico. An agent risked his life by entering a swiftly moving creek to save the children from drowning.
Border Patrol agents in Southern California rescued a migrant who had trouble staying afloat while crossing the All-American Canal. The migrant attempted to cross with another man.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is set to report just under 2 million migrant encounters nationwide for the recently ended Fiscal Year 2021. The number of migrants encountered by Border Patrol agents and CBP officers jumped 202 percent over the previous year’s roughly 647,000.
Border Patrol surveillance cameras captured two separate incidents where human smugglers dangerously dropped small children from border walls. The incidents took place in the El Centro and San Diego Sectors.
Border Patrol agents in Texas’ most remote sector continue to arrest large migrant groups attempting to sneak into the United States. Over the weekend, Van Horn Station agents found a convicted sex offender hiding within a group.
Human smugglers abandoned a large group of migrants in the Arizona desert near San Miguel. The group consisted mostly of unaccompanied minors, Border Patrol officials in the Tucson Sector stated.
Human smugglers crashed into a natural gas pipeline near Kingsville, Texas, while attempting to flee from Border Patrol agents. The smugglers abandoned an injured woman when they fled from the crash scene.
The Yuma Sector in Arizona is on the cusp of surpassing the Del Rio Sector in Texas. Yuma Sector agents report a spike in migrant apprehensions only days into FY22 which began on October 1.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents provided life-saving medical treatments to five migrants who had been shot in Mexico during the process of being smuggled to the United States. The group crossed the border with six other migrants.
