Agents of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) patrolling in California arrested two illegal migrants who have been previously convicted with sexual offenses that involved minors.
A Border Patrol Agent was seen carrying an injured illegal immigrant to safety after being smuggled into the U.S. border, according to the Customs and Border Protection.
Despite using camouflage clothing to evade authorities, 32 Mexicans, who were crossing the Arizona-New Mexico state line, were arrested by Border Patrol agents.
In an attempt to smuggle methamphetamine through an immigration checkpoint, the United States Customs and Border Protection agents from Southern California’s El Centro Sector arrested the woman suspect over the weekend.
Del Rio Sector Chief Patrol Agent Austin Skero shared images of the immigrants’ attempt at illegal entry, cramming themselves in the trailer board with barely enough space to move. There were 18 adults and two children who were discovered lying on top of one another.
The United States Border Patrol released a horrifying video of smugglers dropping a 5-year-old girl and a 3-year old girl at a 14 feet high border barrier, abandoning the migrant children in the New Mexico desert in the middle of the night.
Based on the preliminary data of the U.S. Border Patrol, the detentions of migrant children have increased from 5,600 in January, to 9,300 in February, and with only three weeks in March, 11,000 unaccompanied minors were recorded.
The United States is seeing an increase of migrants crossing the border in 20 years, with a noted increase in apprehension of illegal crossings. Meanwhile, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott scrutinized the Biden administration last week for what he called a growing crisis at the border due to a migrant surge.
Border patrol agents from Yuma arrested 11 Iranians, including two children, after they crossed illegally into the United States from Mexico on Monday night.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents seized over $3 million worth of marijuana along the Texas-Mexico Border over the weekend, a local media release from U.S. Customs and Border (CBP) protection said Monday.
United States Border Patrol said Saturday that three out of seven the victims from a fatal crash at El Paso, Texas were illegal immigrants, with all information gathered so far.
The case is the first known challenge to the administration’s expulsion of immigrant children at the border which has turned away over 377 minors since late March.
