by Tyler | Feb 28, 2020 | Border / Cartel Chronicles, Chinese Migrants, coronavirus, Covid-19, Health, Human Smuggling, National Security, Rio Grande Valley Sector, Trending, U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended 1,155 Chinese migrants this fiscal year after they illegally entered from Mexico, Canada, or coastal boundaries. More than 95 percent came over the southwestern border between October 1, 2019, and January 31, 2020.
by Tyler | Dec 31, 2019 | Border / Cartel Chronicles, Family Unit Aliens, FMUA, Politics, Pre-Viral, Rio Grande Valley Sector, Trending, U.S. Border Patrol, UAC, unaccompanied alien children
Border Patrol agents apprehended more than four million migrants who illegally crossed the southwest border with Mexico during the past 10 fiscal years. If these migrants were placed into a single city, it would be larger than Los Angeles by population.
by Tyler | Nov 14, 2019 | Border / Cartel Chronicles, Del Rio Sector, Human Smuggling, Laredo Sector, migrant deaths, Radio, Rio Grande Valley Sector, Trending, Webb County Medical Examiner
LAREDO, Texas — A border county medical examiner’s office is now packed beyond capacity with the remains of migrants who died while or shortly after crossing from Mexico.
by Tyler | Sep 23, 2019 | Benny Martinez, Border / Cartel Chronicles, Brooks County, Brooks County Sheriff's Office, Crime, Deaths of Migrants, Falfurrias Border Patrol Checkpoint, Falfurrias Border Patrol station, immigration, Killing Fields of Brooks County, migrant deaths, Rio Grande Valley Sector, Trending, U.S. Border Patrol
A Brooks County Sheriff’s Office deputy faced the gruesome task of recovering the half-eaten remains of a migrant who died on a Texas ranch about 80 miles from the Mexican border. The migrant is the 36th to have lost his life attempting to circumvent the...
by Tyler | Jul 22, 2019 | Benny Martinez, Border / Cartel Chronicles, Brooks County Sheriff's Office, Crime, Falfurrias Border Patrol Checkpoint, Falfurrias Station, Human Smuggling, immigration, Rio Grande Valley Sector, Trending, U.S. Border Patrol
Sheriff’s deputies in Brooks County, Texas, recovered the decaying remains of three migrants in five days. The migrants all appeared to have died after being abandoned by human smugglers on ranches surrounding the Falfurrias Border Patrol Checkpoint. To date,...
by Tyler | Jul 12, 2019 | Border / Cartel Chronicles, Family Unit Aliens, Human Smuggling, immigration, McAllen Station, Rincon Village, Rio Grande Valley Sector, Trending, unaccompanied alien children
A Texas reporter in the Rio Grande Valley took her camera to Rincon Village and witnessed approximately 300 migrants crossing the border and turning themselves in to Border Patrol agents. The crossings occurred Tuesday night between 6 p.m. and midnight.
