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 25, 2019 | Border / Cartel Chronicles, Crime, Highway 83 Checkpoint, Human Smuggling, immigration, Laredo Sector, Trending, U.S. Border Patrol
Laredo Sector Border Patrol riverine agents rescued a migrant from possibly drowning in a creek near the Rio Grande. The migrant struggled to stay afloat after illegally entering the river to cross into the U.S.
by Tyler | Oct 27, 2019 | #BuildTheWall, Border / Cartel Chronicles, border security, Border Wall Construction, Carla Provost, CBP, immigration, Mark Morgan, Politics, Trending, U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Border Patrol officials say communities along the border are safer following the completion of 74 miles of improved border wall systems. Those systems include 30-foot bollard walls, new border access roads, lighting, and electronic surveillance. Construction on an...
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 29, 2019 | Border / Cartel Chronicles, Crime, Human Smuggling, immigration, Interstate 35 Checkpoint, Laredo North Station, Laredo Sector, Trending, U.S. Border Patrol
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents rescued ten migrants from tractor-trailer rigs being towed through a South Texas immigration checkpoint.
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,...