Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 10,000 migrants last week in what has become the nation’s busiest sector. Nearly 3,000 more migrants are known to have gotten away without being caught.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents rescued 32 migrants from circumstances where human smugglers placed them in life-endangering situations. In one incident, smugglers packed migrants into the cargo area of a box truck. In another, they locked the migrants in an aut0-transport rail car.
One year ago, President Joe Biden falsely accused Del Rio Sector Horse Patrol Unit agents of using horses to run over migrants and of strapping them from horseback. The president refused to apologize to the agents despite his accusations being proven to be untrue.
Agents assigned to the five Texas-based Border Patrol sectors apprehended nearly 1.26 million migrants so far this fiscal year, federal reports indicate. This represents approximately 65 percent of all apprehensions along the U.S.-Mexico Border.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended a group of ten migrants packed inside a moving-company box truck. Texas police officers found the group during a traffic stop near the border.
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.
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.
EAGLE PASS, Texas — Over the course of an hour, a single group of nearly 600 migrants managed to cross the Rio Grande and surrender to Border Patrol agents. On Friday morning, the group of mostly single adult Venezuelan, Cuban, and Nicaraguan migrants were quickly sorted by nationality, gender, and family unit status. As buses arrived to transport the migrants to a nearby processing center, agents provided water and took basic biographical data from the migrants.
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.
EAGLE PASS, Texas — Border Patrol agents responded to two separate migrant groups totaling more than 800 crossings Thursday. In what has become commonplace, the two large groups of migrants forded the river and quickly surrendered.
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.
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.
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.
A Texas motorist accidentally struck a group of migrants walking along a busy highway near Eagle Pass, Texas, late Saturday night. The migrant group recently crossed the Rio Grande into the United States in an area where hundreds cross daily hoping to surrender to authorities. The crash left one migrant dead and three others, including a toddler, with serious injuries.
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.
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.
A group of 362 migrants ignored the increased dangers of crossing into Eagle Pass, Texas, early Saturday morning. The group crossed in spite of the unusually swift currents in the Rio Grande caused by recent heavy rains.
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.
EAGLE PASS, Texas — The busiest border town for migrant crossings in the U.S. remains under flash flood warnings as thunderstorms rolled through the area on Tuesday. Downtown, Border Patrol agents staged resources under international ports of entry bridges. Migrant crossings, typically numbering 2,000 per day, reduced to a trickle due to the rains.
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.
The death toll in Eagle Pass, Texas, continues to climb after Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents recovered the body of a three-year-old boy from the Rio Grande. Agents also rescued a two-month-old boy who is listed in critical condition after a near drowning.
As Mexican officials attempt to curtail illegal border crossings into the U.S., they appear to be coming under attack from migrants. Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents arrested 12 migrants in two incidents where migrants attacked Mexican officials before fleeing to Texas.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 3,500 migrants who illegally crossed the border from Mexico into Texas over the weekend. Nearly 1,200 of these crossed in six large groups. More than 500 more are reported as got-aways.
Border Patrol agents in the Texas-based Del Rio Sector arrested nine migrants who fled Mexico after allegedly assaulting an immigration official from that nation.
All field operations within the Border Patrol’s Del Rio Sector were suspended due to overcrowding at processing facilities, according to a source within U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The absence of agents performing their border security mission was noticeable as migrants crossed the Rio Grande and searched for authorities to surrender to on Sunday.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents recovered the bodies of at least five migrants who drowned in a three-day period while crossing the Rio Grande into Texas. This adds to the problem where a local funeral home had to stop taking the bodies of dead migrants due to overcrowding.
EAGLE PASS, Texas — The banks of the Rio Grande were flush with Texas Department of Public Safety troopers and Texas Army National Guard posted locally. Simultaneously, soldiers in patrol boats traversed the Rio Grande hoping to deflect migrant crossings away from the city. Thursday’s show of force appeared to push the larger migrant groups away, at least temporarily.
Mexican government immigration officials found a group of 150 migrants locked inside a tractor-trailer headed to the Texas-Mexico border. Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents coordinated with the Mexican authorities to rescue the migrants from the life-threatening situation.
EAGLE PASS, Texas — For one Texas ranch manager, dealing with the daily trespasses of migrants through the property is becoming almost unbearable. Ben Binnion has managed ranches near the border area for a decade. He explained to Breitbart Texas how 2022 is far worse than normal.
EAGLE PASS, Texas — A funeral home director closed the doors of his facility to migrants who died while or after illegally crossing the border. The director said his facility is beyond its capacity to deal with the influx of deaths in Maverick County.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 3,400 migrants over the weekend. Nearly 700 of those crossed near Eagle Pass, Texas, in a five-hour period.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents rescued a migrant woman who lost a foot while jumping from a train in South Texas.
Agents in the five Texas-based Border Patrol Sectors apprehended more than 118,000 migrants who illegally crossed the border in July. In response, Texas Governor Greg Abbott expanded his migrant busing operation to include the sanctuary city of New York.
EAGLE PASS, Texas — According to a source within Customs and Border Protection, a Syrian migrant was arrested crossing the Rio Grande along with 49 other migrants Sunday. The single adult male Syrian’s arrest triggered additional investigation, according to the source.
Agents along the nine southwest Border Patrol sectors apprehended more than 180,000 migrants in July after they illegally crossed from Mexico between ports of entry. This represents a drop of approximately 10 percent from July 2021 — the first year-to-year monthly drop since August 2020.
