EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol (RGV) agents were led on two vehicle pursuits and discovered a hotel room being used to harbor migrants.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents disrupted two human smuggling events, seized 283 pounds of marijuana from two narcotics smuggling events, and encountered another large group of illegal aliens over the weekend.
On May 31, Fort Brown Border Patrol Station agents apprehended a Mexican migrant who was previously charged with second degree murder in 2014 in Louisiana. The subject was sentenced to one-year hard labor and removed from the U.S.