U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials announced the closure of both international bridges in Del Rio, Texas, on Friday evening. The closures come as the migrant camp crisis under one of the bridges continues to worsen.
During an interview aired on Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Del Rio, TX Mayor Bruno Lozano (D) said he’s frustrated at the lack of media coverage of the crisis on the border and said that the government’s handling
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Del Rio, TX Mayor Bruno Lozano (D) pushed back against statements from the Biden administration that the border is closed and said that the border “seems to be wide
Top Republican this week requested a briefing from DHS about human smugglers “brazenly” advertising safe passage into the U.S. on Facebook.
Del Rio, Texas, Mayor Bruno Lozano (D) pleaded with President Joe Biden to address the overwhelming flow of migrants into his border city. He characterized the surge as an unprecedented breach of national security.
Federal law enforcement sources report that Border Patrol agents will now rely on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to conduct migrant releases when detention space is not available in the Texas Rio Grande Valley. Migrant releases coordinated specifically by Border Patrol directly into border communities will be a last-resort option. Border Patrol officials are instructed to conduct the local releases only when ICE cannot cope with the level of arrests made by the Border Patrol.
