WATCH: 42 Migrants Apprehended While Trying to Avoid Border Patrol in South Texas
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended a group of 42 migrants marching through a Texas ranch. The group consisted of all single adult migrants trying to avoid arrest.
McAllen Station Border Patrol agents encountered a group of 42 single adult migrants marching across a ranch. The agents arrested the migrants despite their efforts to avoid apprehension, according to Rio Grande Valley Sector Chief Patrol Agent Brian Hastings.
Happening now: McAllen Border Patrol agents arrest a group of 42 migrants, all composed of single adults actively attempting to evade apprehension. While our agents tend to the humanitarian aspect of the current influx, smugglers take advantage and smuggle groups like these.