Tag: U.S. Border Patrol

Three dogs at the Brownsville animal shelter have found new homes with U.S. Border Patrol agents, an unintended consequence of the REAL Mission job shadowing program with the Brownsville Independent School District.

A man from Mexico was arrested on Wednesday after he rolled his vehicle over and Border Patrol agents discovered he was transporting nearly 500 pounds of marijuana into the United States.

A 50-year-old Mexican man has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison for attempting to smuggle nearly 200 pounds of cocaine to Atlanta.

A 20-year-old El Salvadorian was convicted by a federal jury Wednesday for assaulting a Border Patrol agent in June.

A United States citizen was arrested early Halloween morning after Rio Grande City Border Patrol agents found several bundles of marijuana weighing nearly 260 pounds in his vehicle, according to a criminal complaint.

Two people have been charged after speeding away from the Falfurrias Border Patrol checkpoint with an unrestrained 3-year-old child in the back seat during a smuggling attempt.

MISSION — Illegal immigration is a disaster of unprecedented proportions, and the blame lies squarely at the feet of President Joe Biden.

A 34-year-old city council member from Reynosa admitted to attempting to smuggle nearly a million dollars worth of cocaine through the Falfurrias Border Patrol checkpoint.

A 22-year-old Brownsville man has been sentenced to four years in federal prison for smuggling people in the country illegally last year.

The Brownsville Independent School District and U.S. Border Patrol held an inaugural ceremony Monday at the Fort Brown Border Patrol Station to initiate the R.E.A.L. Mission program for BISD students to shadow U.S. Border Patrol agents.