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Border Patrol agents in the five Texas-based sectors apprehended nearly 138,000 migrants in May, according to a source within U.S. Customs and Border Protection. This is up by approximately 10,000 over the previous month. If the migrants apprehended in the Texas-based sectors were put into a brand new city, it would be the 25th largest city in Texas by population — greater than Waco.

El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents and a CBP Air and Marine Operations helicopter aircrew teamed up to rescue five migrants in the Jacumba Wilderness region near the border in California.

Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents found a group of migrants packed in a dump trailer. One of the migrants died in the smuggling incident.

Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents rescued a migrant woman who became stranded atop a border wall gate. The migrant woman became trapped after attempting to illegally climb over the wall.

A Texas Department of Public Safety helicopter aircrew assisted in the rescue of a migrant man and woman who had been abandoned in the Big Bend region desert near Sierra Blanca. The aircrew responded to the area after hearing radio traffic regarding the lost migrants.

An organizer of the potentially largest-yet migrant caravan says the group headed to the United States grew to approximately 12,000. The group crossed the border from Guatemala to Mexico over the weekend and could grow to as many as 15,000, leaders estimate. Mexico is offering work visas to the members of the caravan.

Border security surveillance systems captured video of a human smuggler dropping a migrant woman from the top of a 30-foot wall in California. El Centro Sector agents responded and treated the woman for a severe ankle injury.

Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 220,000 migrants along the U.S.-Mexico Border in May, setting a record dating back to the Clinton era. Since March 1, agents apprehended more than 633,000 migrants along the southwest border.

Mexican police and immigration officials allowed a nearly 10,000-strong migrant caravan to cross the country’s southern border and head to the United States, an organizer told Fox News. The group departed without government resistance from Tapachula in southern Mexico on Monday.

Border Patrol agents in multiple sectors rescued several migrants in desert regions along the southwest border with Mexico.

Border Patrol agents along the southwest border with Mexico arrested multiple criminal aliens and gang members during the past week. Those arrested after illegally crossing the border include sex offenders, child sex offenders, an accused murderer from Mexico, and dangerous gang members.

Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents encountered three large groups of migrants who illegally crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico into Texas during a 40-hour period. The large groups continue to tie up Border Patrol resources as they have to assess, transport and care for the migrants.

The Biden Administration recently announced plans to begin limited construction of barriers and gates along the U.S.-Mexico Border. The plans call for projects that include new and replacement components to come from Trump-era allotments.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered a state school safety group do begin conducting random, unannounced school-intruder detection audits. The order came as part of a multifaceted plan to harden schools in the wake of last week’s Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott called for a review of school safety requirements and additional hardening one week after 19 students and two teachers were gunned down in Uvalde.

Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 4,000 migrants over the Memorial Day Weekend. In addition, more than 1,600 migrants avoided apprehension and made their way into the United States.

Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents recovered the remains of 10 migrants over the Memorial Day weekend. At least eight drowned in the Rio Grande on Saturday and Sunday.

Some media outlets incorrectly claim cooperation between state and local police officials in the investigation of the Robb Elementary School shooting stopped. Specifically, some claim the Uvalde Police Department (UPD) and the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Department (UCISDPD) stopped cooperating with an investigation led by the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) into the shooting that left 19 children and two adults dead and dozens wounded.

Police in Lubbock, Texas, found the body of an infant buried in the backyard during a sexual assault investigation. 

Eagle Pass Border Patrol agents rescued a two-year-old migrant after someone abandoned him on an island in the middle of the Rio Grande. The agents rescued the child and returned him sometime later to his family who had crossed into Texas.

Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz tweeted that he is “extremely proud” of the actions taken by his agents in recent days. The chief cited the arrest of multiple sex offenders, gang members, and fugitives, along with the water rescue of nearly two dozen migrants.

Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents recovered the bodies of at least eight migrants who drowned in the Texas border river on Saturday and part of Sunday. Riverine unit agents also carried out multiple rescues of migrants in danger of drowning.

Former CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan defended the actions by Uvalde police after Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw told reporters he believed, in hindsight, that the incident commander made the wrong decisions.

Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents rescued an injured migrant woman after she was abandoned in the rugged Arizona mountains near the border with Mexico.

Some of the features designed to keep students safe in an active shooter situation actually worked to protect the shooter and slow the Uvalde police response to the Texas school shooting on Tuesday. The shooter managed to barricade himself behind two locked doors, forcing police to wait to find keys.

Multiple law enforcement sources from separate agencies tell Breitbart Texas that Uvalde-area police officers are receiving death threats following the Robb Elementary School shooting that left 21 people dead.

The Uvalde public school district is no stranger to campus lockdowns. In October 2021, Mayor Don McLaughlin reported the district had been forced into lockdowns 48 times during the first few months of the school year largely due to human smuggler pursuits near campuses.

The Border Patrol agent who helped organize the tactical response that stopped the Robb Elementary School shooter on Tuesday sustained a bullet wound to his head. The agent’s grazed scalp required four stitches.

A lone gunman stormed into a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school Tuesday morning with multiple firearms and hundreds of rounds of ammunition intent on killing students. From his approach to the school until his death at the hands of law enforcement, police engaged the man to save as many lives as they could.

Texas gubernatorial hopeful Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke (D) took the opportunity to inject himself during Governor Greg Abbott’s Wednesday press conference covering the Robb Elementary mass shooting in Uvalde.

Border Patrol agents placed themselves between the Robb Elementary School shooter and children to save lives, says the chief of the U.S. Border Patrol. At least one sustained a gunshot wound during an exchange of gunfire.

An active shooter situation in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, left 19 children and two adults dead. A hospital report also states that 14 children and at least one adult are being treated by hospitals in Uvalde and San Antonio. The shooter was killed by responding police, the governor added.

Del Rio Sector Border Patrol officials report that more than 4,700 migrants illegally crossed into Texas over the past weekend and, of those, at least 1,600 “got away” without being apprehended.

Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended a large group of migrants attempting to sneak into the U.S. interior after crossing the Mexican border into Arizona. Due to the rugged terrain of the mountainous region, a CBP Air and Marine Operations helicopter crew provided transportation into the area for the agents.

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.

Border Patrol agents along the U.S. southwest border with Mexico apprehended more than 22,000 migrants since Friday. The migrant surge took place on the weekend leading up to the expected termination of the CDC’s Title 42 coronavirus protection protocol. A federal judge stopped the Biden Administration from ending the program on the announced May 23 date.