Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents encountered three large migrant groups who illegally crossed over the weekend and Monday. The encounters led to the apprehension of approximately 229, including an 11-month-old infant.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol officials report the apprehension of more than 3,300 migrants over the weekend. In addition, the report reveals another 733 migrants are classified as got-aways.
The surge of migrants moving west to the El Paso Border Patrol Sector led to the apprehension of approximately 30,000 in August, a source within U.S. Customs and Border Protection says. The trend overwhelmed the sector’s detention capacity, forcing agents to carry out street releases.
A 17-year-old faces felony charges after he allegedly ran over and dragged a man and his electric wheelchair. Surveillance video of the parking lot shows the driver swerving toward the man and running over, causing life-threatening injuries.
An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) observed more than 1,000 migrant got-aways during a flight over the Del Rio Sector, a source operating under the umbrella of U.S. Customs and Border Protection revealed. The Del Rio Sector averaged approximately 1,700 apprehended migrants per day in August.
Federal authorities say a U.S. human smuggler dragged a Tucson Sector Border Patrol agent with his car as he attempted to flee apprehension.
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents happened upon two migrants struggling in the Rio Grande as they attempted to illegally cross beneath the Laredo Port of Entry #1.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents moved quickly to rescue a group of five migrants who were struggling with the swiftly moving currents of the Rio Grande. One agent jumped into the water to save a woman having trouble staying afloat in the river that separates Texas and Mexico.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol officials say the increasing numbers of large migrant groups crossing from Mexico into Texas are straining their resources. On Thursday morning two more large groups with more than 800 migrants crossed the deadly Rio Grande into the United States.
Immigration officials in Mexico found 266 migrants packed into the double bottoms of three tractor-trailers. The migrants came from seven different countries and included 20 unaccompanied minors.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Del Rio, Texas, seized more than 1,300 pounds of methamphetamine being smuggled across the port of entry from Mexico into Texas on Labor Day. The drugs represent the largest seizure of methamphetamine in the history of the Del Rio Port of Entry.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 5,100 migrants over the Labor Day Weekend, according to information provided by a sector official. Of those, 2,395 crossed in ten large groups in an effort by Mexican cartels to tie up Border Patrol resources in the region.
El Paso Sector Border Patrol agents found a four-year-old migrant boy after human smugglers abandoned him along the border wall. Agents found the preschool-age child by himself with a toy and his parent’s contact information.
EAGLE PASS, Texas — A delegation of officials from New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ office visited Tuesday to get a first-hand look at the border crisis. The visit follows the arrival of approximately 1,900 migrants in the Big Apple on Texas-funded buses. The visit follows days after 13 migrants drowned in the vicinity of the tour.
Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 181,000 migrants who illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico Border in August, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection documents reviewed by Breitbart Texas. The apprehensions are at virtually the same level as July.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot claims Texas Governor Greg Abbott is “manufacturing a human crisis” by sending 50 more migrants to the Windy City on air-conditioned buses. On the day the 50 migrants arrived in Chicago, approximately 3,774 arrived by illegally crossing the border from Mexico into Texas.
The number of migrants who drowned during an illegal border crossing on Thursday rose to 13 by Sunday, according to CBP Commissioner Chris Magnus. The migrants were swept away from a large group of migrants by the swift currents of the Rio Grande which is swollen from heavy rains.
Border Patrol agents in the five Texas-based sectors apprehended nearly 117,000 migrants in August, according to a source operating under the umbrella of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
A federal district court judge in Arizona sentenced a Mexican migrant to 14 months in prison for assaulting a Tucson Sector Border Patrol agent during an arrest.
The chief patrol agent of the Del Rio Sector warned of increasing dangers along the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass. Rains in the area are increasing the currents in a section of the border river where nine migrants drowned this week in a single crossing incident.
Agents apprehended more than 52,000 migrants who illegally crossed the Mexican border into the Texas-based Del Rio Sector in August, according to a source within U.S. Customs and Border Protection. This is an increase over the record-setting number of apprehensions set in July in what has become the nation’s busiest Border Patrol sector.
The number of migrant bodies recovered from the Rio Grande from Thursday’s border crossing in Eagle Pass, Texas, climbed to nine on Saturday. Border Patrol officials confirmed the recovery of another drowned migrant on the U.S. side of the river.
Border Patrol officials say the number of migrants found dead after a Thursday border crossing climbed to eight on Friday. Other migrants are still reported to missing from a group of migrants who illegally crossed the rain-swollen Rio Grande while trying to illegally enter the United States from Mexico.
EAGLE PASS, Texas — At least four migrants drowned following a border crossing by a group of 50 on Thursday. The migrants report many others were swept away as they illegally crossed the rain-swelled Rio Grande.
EAGLE PASS, Texas — Migrants crossing the rain-swollen Rio Grande report that several members of their group were swept away during an attempted crossing Thursday. Border Patrol agents are performing a search and rescue operation.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol officials report the apprehension of just under 13,000 migrants during a recent seven-day period. They arrested more than 5,000 over the weekend.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott delivered a busload of migrants to Chicago Wednesday night. The delivery marks the expansion of sanctuary city destinations to include New York and Washington, D.C.
El Paso Sector Border Patrol agents working the highways in New Mexico interdicted a human smuggling convoy of four vehicles transporting migrants into the U.S. interior. After stopping the vehicles, agents arrested 30 migrants and three human smugglers.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents encountered five large groups of migrants who illegally crossed the border from Mexico into Texas over the past weekend. The groups totaled nearly 500 migrants from Central America and across the globe.
U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz testified that President Joe Biden’s “no consequences” policies are to blame for the record-setting surge of migrants crossing the southern border during a deposition in a Florida lawsuit.
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a woman and seized 187 pounds of fentanyl. Officials say the quantity of drugs is sufficient to kill up to 42 million people.
Masked Antifa members armed with AR-15 rifles and handguns showed up to guard what was billed as a “kid-friendly” drag show at a North Texas distillery. Reports indicate the show contained partial nudity and sexualized minors.
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents rescued two separate groups of migrants from the desert. Both groups wore camouflage in an attempt to avoid detection.
San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents rescued two migrants in separate incidents who were left behind in the desert by human smugglers. The rescues, which required helicopter airlift, took place in the Otay Mountain Wilderness Area.
New York City officials expanded their hotel housing operation for migrants bused from the Texas border with Mexico by Governor Greg Abbott. The city now contracts with 14 hotels and more migrants arrive daily.
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents rescued an infant and a toddler after human smugglers abandoned them in the desert. Authorities said the smugglers left the babies in the desert to die.
EAGLE PASS, Texas — An infant migrant died Thursday after Border Patrol agents pulled his lifeless body from the Rio Grande on Monday. His drowning death adds to the deaths of his three-year-old brother and a five-year-old girl in separate incidents on Monday.
A federal judge in Arizona sentenced a human smuggler to 13 years in prison for shooting at a Border Patrol agent after attempting to flee from an immigration checkpoint. The man shot at the agent with an AR-15-style rifle as he attempted to open the smuggler’s car door.
Uvalde school district officials fired embattled Police Chief Pete Arredondo three months after the Robb Elementary School shooting that left 19 students and two teachers dead. The district has not fired any other staff or officials who ignored school safety protocols and maintenance requests that could have prevented the shooting.
A Texas homeless man will likely spend the rest of his life in prison after a jury sentenced him for the murder of a 79-year-old man in 2016. The homeless man killed the senior citizen with tree trimming shears.
