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Border Patrol officials in the Tucson Sector report an increase in the number of arrests of single adult migrants this year.

By DJ 33 1/3 Apr 26, 2021 A beachgoer found a bale of cocaine in Palm Beach over the weekend after it washed ashore. Chief U.S. Border Patrol Agent Thomas G. Martin, said the package contained 65 pounds of cocaine and valued at over $1.5 million. Earlier in the year Federal Officers discovered 294 plastic-wrapped bricks of cocaine during a routine X-ray inspection of a U.S. Virgin Islands charter flight that landed at Opa-locka Executive Airport. The total haul was 328 kilos, as 6 individuals ...

Migrant Boy Found Wandering Alone Was Deported and Kidnapped A young boy whose video was shared widely online was kidnapped and separated from his mother when his family couldnt pay for her release. Wilton Obregon and his mother Meylin, Nicaragua natives, crossed the border to Texas last month to seek asylum. But despite the Biden administration’s insistence that a public health order allowing rapid expulsions wouldn’t apply to children, the 10-year-old and his mother were dismissed to Mexi...

Tucson officials learn more about planned migrant facility April 10, 2021 GMT TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A tent-like facility that the federal government plans to set up in Tucson to temporarily house migrants will be located near the city’s airport and be completed in about a month, a Border Patrol official has told the City Council. John Modlin, interim head of the Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector said Friday in an email that the facility will be designed to hold 500 people but “with COVID con...

Over 130 undocumented migrants surrendered to U.S. Border Patrol in Arizona Wednesday. Agents apprehended migrants from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua near San Miguel, just miles from the Arizona-Mexico border. Interim Chief Patrol Agent of the U.S. Border Patrol for the Tucson sector, John Modlin, said the individuals were given face masks and transported to Tucson for processing. The more than 130 migrants are just the latest group from the Northern Triangle to make their way ...

WATCH: Armed Smuggler Arrested with 20 Migrants Locked in Horse Trailer near Border in Arizona 5 Apr 2021 Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents arrested armed human smugglers attempting to move migrants away from the border in a horse trailer. Tucson Sector Chief Patrol Agent John Modlin tweeted a drone video showing a group of migrants illegally crossing a border barrier near Bisbee, Arizona. #BorderPatrol agents arrested 3 U.S. citizens attempting to smuggle 20 illegal aliens inside a #horse tra...

U.S. Senator Mark Kelly will visit Yuma today. Sen. Kelly said he will be briefed by Yuma Sector Border Patrol Chief Patrol Agent Chris Clem and tour border patrol operations at the U.S.-Mexico border. Kelly, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he will also visit both Marine Corps Air Station Yuma and Yuma Proving Ground and meet with local leaders.    In January, Sen. Kelly said he made his first visit to the border as a Senator, touring the Port of Douglas with Douglas May...

Agents apprehended more than 80 unaccompanied alien children along with approximately 50 other migrant families in the Arizona desert.

Central American asylum seekers arrive to a bus station after being released by U.S. Border Patrol agents on February 26, 2021, in Brownsville, Texas. U.S. immigration authorities are now releasing many asylum seekers after they cross the U.S.-Mexico border and are taken into custody. The immigrants are then free to travel to destinations throughout the U.S. while awaiting asylum hearings. | John Moore/Getty Images Migrant families coming across the border into Texas amid a new illegal immigra...