During the last few days of March, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) apprehended multiple MS-13 gang members and violent criminals attempting to illegally cross the southern border in the Rio Grande Valley Sector, the agency said in a press release.
“On March 28, Weslaco Border Patrol Station (WSL) agents arrested a Mexican national during a marijuana smuggling event. During processing, records revealed the subject was arrested in 2019 by the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office for attempt to commit murder. He was convicted and sentenced to two-years’ confinement and subsequently removed from the U.S,” the press release said. “Later that afternoon, Kingsville Border Patrol Station agents apprehended 67 migrants being smuggled in a tractor trailer at the Javier Vega Jr. Border Patrol Checkpoint. Record checks on a Salvadoran national revealed he is a Mara-Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang member and was previously removed from the U.S. in 2018.”
Early in the morning on March 31, “MCS processing agents encountered a Honduran national whose record checks revealed he is a MS-13 gang member. The subject was convicted of assault causing bodily harm to a family member in Fort Worth in 2008. He was also sentenced to over a year confinement for being unlawfully present in the U.S., after multiple deportations”
“Later that morning, Falfurrias Border Patrol Station (FLF) agents apprehended 16 subjects on a ranch near Falfurrias. During processing, record checks on a Mexican national revealed he was convicted of viewing depictions of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct in 2012 and sentenced to 36 months’ incarceration. Two years later he was sentenced to 14-months’ confinement for rape of a child,” the press release said. “That afternoon, MCS processing agents discovered another MS-13 gang member from El Salvador.”
The news comes as the border crisis continues to worsen. According to preliminary government data reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, “Border Patrol has made approximately 7,000 arrests each day in March, according to preliminary government data seen by The Wall Street Journal. That puts the U.S. on pace to record more than 200,000 arrests for March, the highest monthly total in at least 22 years, and more than a million for the first six months of the government’s fiscal year.”
