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Ultimate sacrifice: Border Patrol names vessels for fallen RGV agents

A brief but moving ceremony took place Monday honoring fallen agents of the U.S. Border Patrol Rio Grande Valley Sector by naming patrol vessels of the RGV Sector Riverine Operations after them posthumously.

Brothers arrested after trying to smuggle children through Falfurrias checkpoint

A plan that two brothers from the United States hatched to smuggle children into Houston through the Falfurrias checkpoint was foiled after Border Patrol agents began asking the kids questions, according to a probable cause affidavit.

Woman fleeing Border Patrol crashes vehicle

A 24-year-old woman trying to flee from U.S. Border Patrol agents crashed her car into a sport utility vehicle near the entrance to the Walmart on Alton Gloor Boulevard Saturday afternoon, a federal criminal complaint states.

Officials: Border Patrol agents disrupt San Benito stash house

Federal agents disrupted a stash house in San Benito, arresting three U.S. citizens and apprehending several undocumented immigrants, according to a federal criminal complaint.

Cameron County Sheriff’s Department, others agree to help Border Patrol

Securing the nation’s borders is the top priority of the U.S. Border Patrol.

Border Patrol pursuits lead to 32 arrests

On March 15, Border Patrol agents dealt with three failed smuggling attempts that led to 32 arrests. A ford F150 refused to engage in an...

Border Patrol finds immigrants hidden in vehicles

The U.S. Border Patrol said agents discovered three different smuggling operations over the weekend. At the Sarita checkpoint, agents discovered eight immigrants hidden in a...

Documents: Hotel used to harbor immigrants

A 35-year-old Brownsville man has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to a human smuggling charge in which he...

Border Patrol arrests two men previously convicted of sex crimes, rescue drowning man 

Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents arrested two men previously convicted of sex crimes and also rescued a fleeing migrant, according to an...

CBP rescues immigrant who fell from cliff; 14 others found among boxes of onions

Border Patrol agents in Rio Grande City rescued an immigrant who fell from a cliff on Wednesday morning. The 21-year-old Honduran national was able to...