More than 10,000 Special Interest Aliens were apprehended during the first two and one-half months of the new fiscal year. Special Interest Aliens come from countries with known ties to terrorism.
The last of six human smugglers pleaded guilty last week to the deaths of two Salvadoran migrants who were beaten to death in a warehouse in Houston in 2006. The two smugglers face up to life in prison following sentencing hearings set for next year.
A group of neighbors in the border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, brutally beat a man that they allegedly caught breaking into a home. The mob beat the man, and they tied him to a light pole before calling first responders. The man died shortly after from the injuries sustained.
A group of gunmen in South Texas kidnapped two victims and held them in the border city of Brownsville, Texas. The gunmen tortured them for days over the alleged theft of drugs.
After the discovery of the Biden administration starting to sell off what appear to be sections of unused border wall materials, Texas looked into buying the sections to donate to the incoming Trump administration. Texas officials determined the materials were mostly junk, Lt. Governor Dan Patrick reported.
The U.S. Office of Special Counsel questioned the findings of a CBP internal investigation concerning a whistleblower complaint that, among other allegations, the Deming New Mexico Air Unit was prevented from responding to emergency calls, resulting in several deaths. The deaths included one migrant and a Border Patrol agent who died in July 2020. After investigating the matter, the Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) ruled the allegations were unsubstantiated.
More than 2,000 migrants in southern Mexico are planning a new caravan in an attempt to reach the U.S. border before the arrival of the Trump administration on January 20. The caravan is set to depart on Thursday at midnight as they plan to avoid interference from Mexico’s immigration officials.
Five men with alleged ties to the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua are under arrest after Texas state and local police found $1 million in drugs in a Houston apartment. In addition to the drugs, police seized 24 firearms.
A video captures the moment a PA31 Piper Navajo twin-engine aircraft made an apparent forced landing onto the feeder road of a highway near Victoria, Texas. The aircraft could not stop before entering an intersection and was struck by several vehicles.
Authorities in Mexico confirmed that a lynch mob beat and then hung three men who were allegedly trying to break into a home and kidnap a 5-year-old girl.
U.S. and Guatemalan officials announced the arrest of five people for their roles in an alleged human smuggling operation. The arrest took place in Houston, Texas, and El Boquerón, Guatemala, after 50 smuggled migrants were killed in a tractor-trailer crash in Chiapas, Mexico.
On Tuesday, San Diego County Sheriff Kelly A. Martinez announced that her office will not abide by a new sanctuary policy adopted by the Southern California county’s Board of Supervisors. The latest sanctuary policy limits cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers by prohibiting county law enforcement officers from granting ICE agents access to individuals or using County facilities for investigative interviews.
A man accused of trying to hijack a commercial airliner in Mexico and trying to get the pilot to fly him to the United States is now accused of trying to disarm a federal officer and carjack a police vehicle during an escape attempt.
Five East Texas fire departments responded to a blaze Monday morning that consumed a 163-year-old Methodist Church in Marshall. In the 1860s, the church served as an ammunition warehouse and meeting place for Confederate leaders, including President Jefferson Davis.
Police in San Antonio say a Venezuelan migrant is charged in the July capital murder of a teenager. The man is suspected of being a gun trafficker and Tren de Aragua gang member and was released by the Biden administration after illegally entering the U.S.
An airline in Mexico confirmed an attempted hijacking where a man attempted to have the plane diverted to the United States. No injuries were reported during the incident.
The recent federal conviction and sentence of a man who tried to run over an FBI agent while driving a stolen truck into Mexico highlights a growing trend plaguing South Texas. Multiple cities are seeing a rise in the thefts of four-door SUVs and pickups that are taken into Mexico at the request of the Gulf Cartel. The criminal organization uses the trucks in their ongoing turf wars.
A border state Mexican police officer is recovering in a local hospital after a group of cartel gunmen kidnapped him, tortured him, undressed him, and threw him in an irrigation canal.
The Texas Department of Public Safety announced the graduation on November 28 of its first class of Border Mounted Patrol Unit troopers. Within a week, the team was already intercepting migrant got-aways making their way into the U.S. interior without being apprehended at the border.
A pair of fentanyl dealers were sentenced to a combined 15-year federal prison sentence after being found guilty in the death of a 15-year-old Carrollton, Texas, girl. The two supplied the girl with fake Percocet pills containing the deadly fentanyl, according to court documents.
President-Elect Donald Trump announced on Thursday that former Chief of the United States Border Patrol, Rodney S. Scott, will be his nominee for the post of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner. In a post on the incoming president’s social media platform Truth Social, Trump cited Scott’s vast experience in immigration policy and his previous service as the agency head for the United States Border Patrol under the prior Trump administration.
An investigation by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents identified a migrant smuggling ring being operated by three U.S. Army Soldiers based at Fort Cavazos near Killeen, Texas.
Texas Speaker of the House Dade Phelan withdrew his bid to remain in that position for the upcoming legislative session. The move could dramatically change the opportunity to pass key conservative legislation next year.
The terrorist group known as the Gulf Cartel has shared a short video via messaging groups where they allegedly loaded improvised explosive devices onto a drone. The criminal organization uses these drones to drop explosives on rivals, police forces, and others as part of their ongoing turf war in the northern part of Tamaulipas.
A Texas man’s distinctive tattoos led to his identification and arrest during the Thanksgiving Holiday week as a suspect in the molestation of a child.
Mexico’s Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero announced that a Mexican federal judge is the target of a corruption investigation after he ordered the release of one of the top leaders of the Gulf Cartel.
Cases of Dengue fever are rising along the Texas-Mexico border with rates in the Lone Star State reaching levels not seen in more than two decades. In Mexico, hospitalizations and deaths from complications of the virus are also on the rise.
Texas Department of Public Safety Troopers interdicted 176 migrants in a single group after they crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico on Sunday. The group crossed into the United States near the small Texas border town of Eagle Pass shortly before noon. According to a DPS spokesperson, 11 migrants within the group were identified as Special Interest Aliens (SIA) from Afghanistan.
Soon after Mexico’s government dissolved a migrant caravan that was moving north, a new caravan departed from the country’s southern border. The migrants expressed their final goal of reaching the border with the United States before President-Elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20.
Houston Police Department officials say they arrested the alleged killer of a woman and her two-year-old daughter. Police found the suspected killer sleeping on the couch, still wearing blood-stained clothes.
Two migrants with violent criminal records were included among a host of migrants removed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during the Thanksgiving holiday week. According to ICE, the violent offenders were wanted in their home countries for murder and attempted murder in Honduras and Ecuador. The pair of violent offenders were among hundreds removed during the holiday weekend.
Mexican immigration authorities dissolved one of the large migrant caravans moving through southern Mexico as they provided the group with bus transportation to other parts of Mexico and promised to help them with their paperwork. The move comes soon after Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum had phone calls with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump over the threats of tariffs if Mexico does not halt the flow of drugs, migrants, and asylum seekers headed north.
Border Patrol agents and Texas National Guard soldiers ordered a medical airlift on Sunday morning for a migrant child seriously injured in a razor wire barrier along the border. The child was injured as a large migrant group pushed their way through after a standoff with Guardsmen.
Human smugglers in Mexico raised their rates to cross migrants across the border into the United States as the task of even reaching the southwest border becomes more difficult. Among the number of reasons for that and the causes cited for the rise in smuggling fees is the outcome of the recent presidential election.
Texas Department of Public Safety troopers detained a Mexican woman after she allegedly paid a human smuggler $8,000 to bring her five-year-old daughter across the Rio Grand. Troopers made the discovery after a traffic stop in Del Rio, Texas.
Authorities in Mexico rescued 22 migrants being held by cartel gunmen at a ranch in southern Mexico. The rescue came after a fierce gun battle where a soldier and a police officer died during the clash with more than 15 gunmen.
Border Patrol agents apprehended a group of 289 migrants near Eagle Pass, Texas. Embedded with the group were seven Special Interest Aliens from Iran.
While most Americans celebrated Thanksgiving, Texas Department of Public Safety troopers were on patrol along the Texas border. A trooper in Maverick County, near Eagle Pass, found a ten-year-old boy from El Salvador who became lost after being abandoned by a human smuggler.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled on Wednesday that the State of Texas can continue to build razor wire border barriers. The court also ruled the Biden administration was wrong to cut the barriers put in place by the Texas National Guard under Governor Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star.
A video produced for an East Texas Ford dealership is going viral on social media after a full-on-MAGA promotion. The video depicts Trump-like characters and what appear to be several staff members dressed in the president-elect’s iconic blue suit, white shirt, and red tie while performing the “Trump Dance” to YMCA.
