Texas Border Business
EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents arrest a Mara-Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang member, a migrant previously convicted of attempted capital murder in Virginia, and a sex offender.
Yesterday morning, Fort Brown Border Patrol Station (FTB) agents apprehended a group of six migrants near Brownsville, Texas. Record checks revealed one noncitizen, an El Salvadoran national, is a MS-13 gang member. The migrant was previously removed from the United States in 2018.
This morning, McAllen Border Patrol Station (MCS) agents working near Hidalgo, Texas, apprehended several migrants after they illegally entered the United States. The group was transported to the station where records checks revealed that one noncitizen, a Honduran national, had been previously arrested by Richmond City, Virginia, Police Department for attempted capital murder. The undocumented noncitizen was subsequently sentenced to five years confinement.
Today, MCS agents arrested a noncitizen near Abram, Texas. Records checks revealed that a female noncitizen from Nicaragua, had been previously convicted of sex abuse of a minor.
Both subjects were processed accordingly.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged with the management, control and protection of our nation’s borders at and between the official ports of entry. CBP is charged with keeping terrorists and terrorist weapons out of the country while enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws.
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