Officials with the U.S. Border Patrol El Paso Sector announced that they are providing additional opportunities for migrants in distress to be rescued before it’s too late, with the deployment of rescue beacons in the Lordsburg, N.M. area this month. “The El Paso Sector Border Patrol continues to proactively collaborate with our Non-Governmental Organizational and […]Read More
Officials with the U.S. Border Patrol announced that agents stopped a human smuggling attempt earlier this week, returning a baby to her family. On Tuesday, January 20, U.S. Border Patrol agents from the El Paso station identified a human smuggling scheme near the El Paso International Airport. According to officials, agents found four people from […]Read More
On Tuesday, officials with U.S. Border Patrol announced that agents from the Ysleta Station rescued a man who nearly drowned in the American Canal, which runs alongside the Rio Grande. According to officials, on July 26, Ysleta Border Patrol Agents were conducting routine surveillance duties when they heard a cry for help. Agents raced to […]Read More
U.S. Border Patrol Agents have been involved in four emergency rescue operations in far West Texas and Southern New Mexico since the beginning of July. “These life-saving events continue to highlight the dangerous risks that illegal migrants are placed in by criminal organizations,” stated El Paso Sector Chief Patrol Agent Gloria I. Chavez. “I am […]Read More
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Tuesday it would consider a controversial Texas case involving a cross-border shooting that ended with the death of a 15-year-old boy at the hands of a Border Patrol agent. Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca was killed in 2010 by agent Jesus Mesa Jr., who was patrolling the banks of the Rio […]Read More
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