Texas Border: More Terror Watchlist Migrants Arrested
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Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper watches Rio Grande Border with Mexico to prevent illegal crossings into the U.S.A.Photo byTexas Department of Public Safety
Several alarming trends we have been reporting recently along the Texas - Mexico Border are - unfortunately - continuing, including the discovery of more migrants on a United States terror watchlist who illegally crossed the Rio Grande.
Texas DPS Officers encounter 165 illegal immigrants - including 14 on terror watchlist - near Eagle Pass (October 11, 2024).Photo byTexas Department of Public Safety
These "Special Interest Migrants "- who, according to the Department of Homeland Security could "potentially pose a national security risk to the United States or its interests," were amonga group of 165 illegal immigrants encountered by DPS Officers in Quemado, just outside of Eagle Pass.
Border Patrol Agents encounter a large group of 207 migrants near Eagle Pass, Texas (September 24, 2024).Photo byU.S. Border Patrol
The apprehension of another large (100+) group of migrants who illegally crossed into Texas near Eagle Pass continues a trend the Border Patrol noticed beginning late last month - and which we first reported on October 11, 2024. (You can read more about that HERE).
Texas State Trooper questions large group of migrants who illegally crossed Rio Grande into the U.S. near Eagle Pass (October 11, 2024).Photo byTexas Department of Public Safety
The arrests included illegal immigrants from Peru, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Guatemala, and Ecuador.
Also within that group were 29 unaccompanied childrenranging in age from 10 to 17. All had the address of a “sponsor” in New York, California, Colorado, Florida, Maine, & other states. The children were turned over to the U.S. Border Patrol.
Unaccompanied migrant children encountered by Texas State Police near Eagle Pass on October 11, 2024.Photo byTexas Department of Public Safety
57 of the adults apprehended by Texas State Troopers face state charges of criminal trespass on private ranchland.
Finally - another case involving a large group of migrants -has been reported from the El Paso Border Patrol Sector. Agents there apprehended 15 migrants inside a single vehicle being smuggled into the United States from Mexico.
This large group of migrants were discovered by El Paso Sector Border Patrol Agents while being smuggled inside a single SUV (Oct. 8, 2024).Photo byU.S. Border Patrol
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Since February 2021, there have been more than 10.3 million encounters nationwide and more than 8.3 million encounters at the Southwest border.Nationwide border encounters by the Office of Field Operations (OFO) at ports of entry (98,274) increased more than 185% from August 2021.Since January 2023, 813,000 inadmissible aliens have scheduled appointments with the CBP One app.Since the program began, roughly 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans have been mass paroled under the administration’s CHNV parole program at ports of entry.388 illegal aliens on the terrorist watchlist have been apprehended between ports of entry at the Southwest and northern borders since FY21.CBP has recorded more than 520,000 encounters of unaccompanied alien children (UACs) at the Southwest border since Biden and Harris took office, an unprecedented number.
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