Tag: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
CBP detains 2 wanted on child sex charges
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers apprehended two Rio Grande Valley residents last week who had warrants for child-related sex crimes.
CBP took 69-year-old Eliseo...
Border agents find 60 people in trailers at Falfurrias checkpoint
Border agents in the Falfurrias area arrested three people over the course of two days who were allegedly trying to smuggle as many as...
Man jailed for failure to declare handgun
A Houston man’s failure to declare he was transporting a firearm across Brownsville to Mexico has landed him in jail, court documents indicate.
Touting ‘Operation Lone Star’ successes, Abbott announces program expansion
WESLACO — Operation Lone Star, the controversial border security initiative implemented by Gov. Greg Abbott last year in response to a historic increase in...
CBP: Couple busted trying to smuggle flamethrower into Mexico
A couple from Jalisco, Mexico was arrested by customers officers at the Hidalgo port of entry Sunday after allegedly attempting to smuggle a cache...
Brownsville’s Gateway Bridge to undergo $100M renovation
Over $100 million will be poured into a modernization project to update Brownsville’s Gateway International Bridge, the U.S. General Services Administration announced Friday.
The improvements...
By the numbers: Increases, decreases reported in migrant apprehensions
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has released its monthly operations report for December 2021 and figures indicate while there was a decrease in the...
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers sued over Valley border wall levee records
The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Thursday for failing to release public records regarding construction of new border...
Abbott, Paxton tackle TikTok during border security briefing in Weslaco
WESLACO — Gov. Greg Abbott and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton urged a dozen state attorneys general from around the country to join their...