Bus station employees are reporting that illegal immigrants continue pour into the Texas border town of Laredo. They have seen a holding center for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) carrying between 20 and 40 undocumented women during at least five bus trips.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents released a group of 40 women who illegally entered the United States from Central American countries at a bus station in south Texas. The influx of women and children illegally crossing the border from Mexico has been increasing steadily over the past year.
U.S. Border Patrol agents seized nearly $1.2M worth of marijuana as it was being smuggled across the Texas border with Mexico during a 2-day period last week.
Human smugglers left a 15-year-old behind in the desert just north of the Texas/Mexico border near Laredo. Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents saved the Salvadoran national from certain death.
A Border Patrol agent working the Texas-Mexico border was forced to discharge his weapon after being assaulted by at least one illegal alien.
Border Patrol agents from the Eagle Pass Marine Unit rescued an illegal immigrant who was in danger of drowning in the swift currents of the Rio Grande River.
U.S. Border Patrol agents working in the Laredo Sector in South Texas found 22 illegal aliens trapped inside the trailer of an 18-wheeler. The aliens were being smuggled but had no means of escaping the trailer or getting air or water when needed.
Border Patrol agents working in the Laredo North checkpoint discovered a cold storage trailer containing 32 illegal immigrants being smuggled northward. The incident occurred at the Border Patrol Checkpoint located on Interstate 35 between Laredo and San Antonio.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz visited the Laredo Sector of the U.S.-Mexico border and did not contact Border Patrol agents to discuss their needs. According to the agents, Senator Cruz has yet to contact them through his freshman term in the U.S. Senate.
A woman attempted to smuggle methamphetamine into Texas from Mexico by hiding the drugs under her clothing and those of her infant child. The discovery was made by Federal officers working at the Brownsville Port of Entry from Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Elsewhere on the Texas border with Mexico, an additional $500,000 worth of methamphetamine and cocaine were seized in a separate smuggling attempt.
Federal officers seized over $200K-worth of cocaine at the World Trade Bridge in Laredo, Texas on July 27.
Health officials are reported a brain-eating amoeba was found in the Rio Grande River along the Texas border with Mexico. Mexican health officials in Tamaulipas warned people to refrain from swimming in or bathing in the river that is used by many to illegally enter the United States.
U.S. Border Patrol agents in Laredo, Texas, risked their lives by jumping into the Rio Grande River to rescue four illegal aliens who nearly drowned crossing from Mexico. Though heavily unreported, Border Patrol agents frequently put their lives at risk to rescue illegal aliens who have put themselves in dangerous situations.
Federal officers with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized over $2.5 million in crystal meth and cocaine at the Texas border with Mexico in Laredo. The seizures took place in three separate incidents over a two-day period.
U.S. Border Patrol agents from the Laredo Sector seized an 18-wheeler loaded with nearly $4.6 million worth of Marijuana on Thursday night at a checkpoint located over 70 miles from the Mexican border.
The weekend round-up of drug shipments being smuggled into the U.S. from Mexico resulted in the seizure of over $1.5 million in illegal contraband in a three-day period.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers appear to have made no effort to call the Laredo Police Department or Border Patrol agents after three men who were seen jumping the turnstile and bypassing border security screening at a Laredo port of entry escaped.
Officers with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Service (CBP) seized over $1 million worth of cocaine in separate incidents at multiple Texas border ports of entry.
Federal authorities in Laredo, Texas, seized over $1 million worth of crystal methamphetamine during a cross border smuggling attempt on Tuesday.
Total apprehensions of illegal aliens crossing the southwest border are up in March by twenty-eight percent above February. Of the overall total of 33,335 total captures on the southwest border in March, over 4,200 were unaccompanied alien children (UACs).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in Laredo, Texas, seized over a ton of marijuana and some unwanted wood-boring pests in a shipment of wooden pallets.
Border Patrol agents in southern California seized over $1.2 million in cocaine following a vehicle stop near an inland checkpoint.
Nearly 18,000 illegal aliens were apprehended by Border Patrol agents in just one sector of the Texas/Mexico border, the Laredo Sector. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Laredo Sector had an impressive first five months of the current fiscal year which began in October 2015. 17,945 apprehensions were made of illegal aliens who had crossed the border from Mexico.
Middle school children playing football and soccer in Laredo, Texas, and their parents are being subjected to gangs of cartel drug smugglers running through their practice fields with bails of marijuana on their backs. It is such a regular occurrence that one Laredo City Council member is speaking out for more enforcement and resources.
Dr. Ben Carson tells Breitbart News America’s “worst nightmare” might be “unfolding before our eyes.”
Border Patrol agents working a known smuggling area in Laredo, Texas, arrested an alleged Texas militia member on multiple weapons charges. The man was with two other men in an area about 1,000 feet north of the Texas/Mexico border.
Just as 2016 Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump was concluding his whirlwind tour of this Texas/Mexico border city, the U.S. Border Patrol kicked off a hectic weekend. Over the next twenty-four hours or so, Border Patrol agents would seize 427 pounds of marijuana, rescue twenty-two illegal immigrants and save the life of at least one of them.
More than 130 pounds of marijuana was seized on Wednesday morning when U.S. Border Patrol agents from the Laredo South Sector discovered a vehicle leaving a known smuggling area along the Rio Grande River. The driver led agents on a short chase and crashed back into the river in what is described as a “splashdown” event. Breitbart Texas has learned this is a new technique for smugglers in the Laredo sector.
U.S. Border Patrol Agents discovered more than 4,000 pounds of marijuana in a tractor-trailer at the inland border checkpoint located on I-35 between San Antonio and Laredo. Agents were alerted to the possibility of drugs by a K-9 assigned to the checkpoint.
WESLACO, Texas – The most wide open area along the Texas border may soon get a boost in law enforcement presence as well as technology, said Texas Governor Greg Abbott. The border city of Laredo and its surrounding areas has a long history of being used for drug and human smuggling by the Los Zetas cartel. A lack of a border fence and populated areas just yards from the Rio Grande have led to detentions of illegal immigrants and drug smugglers around city streets Breitbart Texas previously published.
U.S. Border Patrol Agent Hector Garza was elected this week to be president of National Border Patrol Council Local 2455 union. The election makes Garza responsible to represent the over 1,600 Border Patrol agents and support staff employees of the Laredo Sector of the Border Patrol.
