A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper arrested a confirmed Tren de Aragua, who was released by the Biden-Harris administration for alleged smuggling of persons. The Venezuelan gang member was wearing an ICE tracking device at the time of his arrest. This was his second arrest on human smuggling charges.
The Biden-Harris administration’s Department of Justice filed an unopposed motion to postpone a trial on its lawsuit against Texas Governor Greg Abbott over the placement of floating border barriers in the Rio Grande. The motion for a 60-day delay will likely move the trial date past the November 5 presidential election.
The Biden-Harris administration announced on Monday that it will expand the controversial CBP One App irregular immigration program to make it even easier for migrants to enter the United States. The expansion of the program, never authorized by Congress, will enable migrants near Mexico’s southern border to enter the United States.
Texas Department of Public Safety troopers arrested a Mexican teenager who was allegedly smuggling a group of migrants near Laredo. The teen led the troopers on a chase that ended after he hit a curb and lost a front tire.
ATLANTA, Georgia: Thousands of Trump-Vance supporters lined up for hours before a rally scheduled to kick off at 3 p.m. EDT. Heat-Index temperatures reached 96 degrees five hours before the rally.
Following a series of election-year gambits, Border Patrol reports show that migrant apprehensions along the southwest border fell to Trump-era levels for the first time since Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took office in 2021. According to an unofficial Border Patrol report reviewed by Breitbart Texas, the number of agents encountered fell to just over 56,000 during July.
The New York Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit filed by Mayor Eric Adams attempting to block Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s migrant busing program. The ruling allows the State of Texas to continue busing migrants to New York City.
Cartel-connected human smugglers abandoned a ten-year-old girl and her mother in the California desert and left them to die. Agents found the mother’s body just south of the border wall and managed to save her daughter.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that Texas can keep the buoys Governor Greg Abbott ordered installed in the Rio Grande. The Biden-Harris administration sued the State of Texas to stop Texas from placing the barriers in the river that separates Mexico from the U.S.
San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents reportedly apprehended three suspected Palestinian terrorists after they illegally crossed the border between ports of entry. The suspected terrorists illegally crossed the Mexican border into California, according to a news report.
Border Patrol agents in the Swanton Sector of the U.S.-Canada border have apprehended more than 15,000 migrants so far this fiscal year, more than the previous 13 years combined, according to U.S. Border Patrol reports.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations (AMO) helicopter pilot force landed his A Star aircraft just across the Mexican border south of Texas. The pilot and Border Patrol Observer waded across the Rio Grande back to Texas before being checked out medically.
During Wednesday night’s Oval Office address, President Joe Biden claimed, “Border Crossings are lower today than when the previous administration left office.” Official reports from U.S. Customs and Border Protection debunk this claim.
A New Mexico man will now face up to 19 years in federal prison after shooting a Border Patrol agent twice during a failed human smuggling attempt. His protective body armor saved the agent’s life.
During her 2020 Democratic Party Primary campaign for President, then-Senator Kamala Harris pledged to support the decriminalization of illegal immigration and free health care for illegal immigrants. After being named Border Czar for the Biden administration, Vice President Harris stood by and watched as more than 11 million migrants illegally entered the United States illegally.
Law enforcement authorities in Mexico arrested a man believed to be the leader of a large human smuggling organization. The arrest of the Sierra Leone national in Mexico was made at the request of the United States Department of Treasury.
Border Patrol agents in the Swanton Sector established yet another record with the apprehension of more than 3,300 migrants in June. The sector, which covers the Canadian border with Vermont, New Hampshire, and eastern New York, is now the fifth-busiest of the 20 U.S. Border Patrol sectors.
The arrests of migrants who illegally cross the southwest border with Mexico between points of entry hit its lowest mark of the Biden era. The sharp drop in migrant apprehensions follows a series of election-year gambits to distract voters from the previous three and a half years of failed border security policies.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott told delegates at the Republican National Convention and a live television audience that President Joe Biden’s border crisis has had a catastrophic impact on his state and the entire nation. Abbott’s convention speech came on the night that Senator J.D. Vance accepted the Republican Party nomination to become Vice President of the United States.
The Texas Department of Public Safety added two child sex offenders to the State’s 10 Most Wanted Criminal Illegal Immigrants List. The two men replace two other criminal illegal immigrants from the list following their arrests.
BORDER TOWN, USA — Clark County, Wisconsin, officials report that a Mexican national illegally present in the United States is charged with the stabbing deaths of his two daughters. The children’s mother was also stabbed in the July 5 attack but survived her wounds.
BORDER TOWN, USA — Police in Charlotte, North Carolina, arrested an 18-year-old Honduran migrant for his alleged role in a random shooting spree that left one person dead. The migrant reportedly entered the U.S. illegally by crossing the border from Mexico into Texas, according to a local news report.
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents found 23 migrants hiding in a rail car of a Union Pacific train more than 50 miles from the Texas-Mexico border. The migrants appear to have illegally entered the U.S. between ports of entry without inspection.
More than 1.5 million Texas households were without power Monday morning as Hurricane Beryl made landfall on the state’s central coast. Beryl’s eye crossed the Texas coastline early Monday near Matagorda, Texas.
Tropical Storm Beryl is expected to regain its status as a Category 1 or 2 hurricane prior to making landfall Monday morning on the mid-Texas coast. Officials with the National Hurricane Center warn of flooding threats from tidal surges and intense rainfall.
As the presidential election nears, migrant apprehensions in the Tucson Sector hit their lowest level of the current fiscal year. Agents apprehended only 2,900 migrants during the past week, according to the sector chief.
A six-foot bull shark attacked four people on a South Padre Island beach on Independence Day. Two people sustained injuries from shark bites.
Texas Department of Public Safety officials announced the arrest of 12 dangerous “criminal illegal immigrants” from the State’s most-wanted lists.
The San Diego Border Patrol Sector regained the title of busiest sector along the southwest U.S. border with Mexico in June. Agents apprehended nearly 26,000 migrants who illegally crossed the southern California border with Mexico between ports of entry in June.
El Paso Sector Border Patrol agents arrested and later deported three Guatemalan migrants with outstanding criminal warrants from their home country. The migrants were tracked through a binational effort before being removed to Guatemala.
A recent gambit by the Biden administration to give the appearance of border enforcement yielded the lowest month of migrant apprehensions of his term. Border Patrol agents apprehended just over 82,000 migrants who illegally crossed the border between ports of entry in June.
The spread of Biden’s border crisis to the U.S.-Canada border continues its exponential growth. Swanton Sector agents arrested more than 3,300 migrants in June, up more than 420 percent from last June. Year-to-date arrests are up nearly 190 percent over the same period last year.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized a large cache of weapons at the Progresso International Bridge. The weapons were found in a vehicle in the southbound lane of the bridge that connects Texas and Mexico.
The Trinity River Authority announced a “potential failure watch” for the dam located at the base of one of Texas’ largest man-made lakes. The alert says there is no “immediate danger of either failure or breach of the dam.”
A Uvalde County grand jury indicted fired school district police chief Pete Arredondo and another district police officer more than two years after a mass shooting that left two teachers and 19 students dead. The two ex-cops face charges of abandoning or endangering a child.
The two Venezuelan migrants charged in the alleged capital murder of Jocelyn Nungaray, a 12-year-old Houston girl, will be held in the Harris County jail on bonds of $10 million each after appearing before a judge on Monday and Tuesday. The two men illegally crossed the border between ports of entry and were released by the Biden administration only to find their way to Houston.
A Laredo, Texas, man faces charges of human smuggling after allegedly leading Department of Public Safety troopers on a high-speed chase. A second pursuit led to the arrest of an alleged illegal immigrant smuggler and a migrant wanted in Wisconsin.
A media report reveals that approximately 194,000 migrants illegally entered the U.S. between southwest border ports of entry as “known got-aways.” The migrants entered the country with no screening and no identification.
Savage New Mexico wildfires near Ruidoso led to the evacuation of approximately 8,000 residents. At least one person died and more than 1,400 structures were burned in the South Fork and Salt Fires. The fires consumed more than 23,000 acres
Helicopter aircrews assigned to CBP’s Air and Marine Operations’ Tucson Air Branch rescued five migrants from life-threatening conditions in the desert mountains near the Arizona border with Mexico. CBP is carrying out higher-than-normal numbers of rescue operations as the summer heat increases.
