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Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents found nearly 70 migrants locked inside two vacuum tanker trucks in separate incidents. The human smuggling attempts failed when Border Patrol K-9s detected human cargo in the tankers at an immigration checkpoint near Freer, Texas. Border Patrol agents assigned to the U.S. Highway 59 immigration checkpoint on November 27 observed a vacuum tanker truck approaching for inspection, according to information obtained from Laredo Sector Border Patrol officials. During an initial interview, a Border Patrol K-9 alerted to the possible presence of drug or human cargo coming from the trailer. The agents referred the driver to a secondary inspection station. A search of the tanker revealed nearly 30 migrants locked inside with no means of escape in the event of a crash or abandonment by the human smuggler. Agents identified the migrants as citizens of Mexico and El Salvador, officials reported. Three days later, a second vacuum tanker truck approached the …

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A cartel-connected human smuggler fleeing from authorities broke into a home, assaulted the owner, and stole her vehicle. Authorities managed to detain five migrants at the property but the smuggler managed to escape, Texas authorities revealed. The case took place late last month in Edwards County, northeast of Del Rio; a border city that has become a human smuggling hub. Authorities are still working to capture the smuggler. Texas Department of Public Safety Lieutenant Chris Olivarez revealed to Breitbart Texas that the agency has seen a dramatic trend in reckless and violent tactics by cartel-connected smugglers. Breitbart Texas spoke with Olivarez during a briefing about Operation Lone Star. Year-to-date, Texas DPS Troopers working in border counties have seen 1,008 vehicles pursuits. The figure does not include the high-speed chases by federal or local agencies, Olivarez said. The chases routinely start when a trooper tries to pull over a driver for some type of traffic …

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Russia has amassed more than 94,000 troops at the border of Ukraine and could invade the country by the end of January, the Ukrainian defense minister said Friday. Oleksii Reznikov said the troops are gathered in Crimea, the peninsula Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, The Associated Press reported . The buildup is stoking fears of an escalation in the years-long war fought between Russian-backed separatists and the government of Ukraine, which has seen more than 14,000 casualties. Reznikov said an escalation in the war by late January is "a probable scenario, but not certain." ADVERTISEMENT “Our intelligence service analyzes all scenarios, including the worst ones. It notes that a probability of a large-scale escalation on the part of Russia exists," Reznikov said, according to the AP. Tensions have been growing between the West, including the U.S., and Russia. Secretary of State Antony Blinken Antony Blinken Overnight Defense & National Security — …

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A Texas woman who worked as a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent has admitted to illegally bringing a Mexican national, whom she later hired as her housekeeper and nanny, into the U.S. Rhonda Lee Walker, 40, of Laredo, Texas, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to encourage or induce a foreign national to enter the United States, according to a press release by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent in Texas has pleaded guilty to illegally bringing a Mexican woman into the U.S. to work as her nanny, according to federal court documents. https://t.co/Qj53eSBgf3 — The Associated Press (@AP) May 15, 2021 Walker used a colleague’s computer login info to help the woman — only identified as Trevino — enter the country through the Laredo Port of Entry in January 2021, according to the DOJ. Walker allegedly pulled off the scheme in order to employ Trevino, who had no legal status in the country, as her housekeeper and …

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An immigrant who purchased the land where he crossed over into the U.S. illegally said he won’t stop other migrants from doing the same, BuzzFeed News reported Friday. Ociel Mendoza illegally entered the U.S. when he was 18-years-old and looking for seasonal work on Texas ranches, according to BuzzFeed News. Mendoza bought the land where he illegally crossed into the country over 40 years earlier, and now allows other migrants looking for a better life to come through the area. “I was undocumented once myself. Who am I to stop them?” Mendoza told BuzzFeed News. (RELATED: Texas Rancher Says Illegal Immigrants Are Repeatedly Causing Property Damage And Trashing His Land) In a photo taken on March 28, 2021 a ranch owner stands before a portion of the unfinished border wall that former US President Donald Trump tried to build, near the southern Texas border city of Roma. (Photo by ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images) Undocumented immigrants frequently crossed the border looking …

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Since being made “border crisis manager” 81 days ago, Kamala Harris has infamously refused to visit the border. Meanwhile, the border crisis has intensified, with record-breaking surges of illegal migrants overwhelming our border patrol agents, thousands of unaccompanied minors abandoned in the desert and drug cartels profiting off the humanitarian disaster. Now, with voices on the right and left subjecting Harris to legitimate scrutiny on her avoidance of the crisis, the vice president is laughing off their questions — literally — in a stunning show of dismissiveness from someone who claims to be a leader. In March , when the true scale of the humanitarian crisis was becoming horrifyingly clear, a reporter asked Harris if she planned to visit the border. “Not today,” she responded, bursting into laughter. She did the same thing earlier this week during an interview with NBC when journalist Lester Holt asked the same question. The cringeworthy exchange went as follows: …

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Border Patrol agents in Laredo, Texas, arrested Oscar Ordonez with seven other migrants shortly after they illegally entered from Mexico on Thanksgiving Day. Agents discovered Ordonez’s criminal record includes a conviction for sexual battery by force or helplessness. Ordonez, a citizen of El Salvador, was sentenced to 360 days in a Virginia prison for his 2016 crime. After release, Ordonez was deported to El Salvador as a result of his conviction. On August 5, 2016, the Fairfax County Police Department arrested Ordonez after receiving a sexual assault report. The arrest garnered significant media attention in the area. According to police accounts, days prior to the arrest, a 47-year-old woman was approached by Ordonez in an auto parts store. Ordonez offered the woman a ride to another parts supplier as the store did not have the item she needed. The woman claimed Ordonez told her he had to pick up some co-workers and drove to the Brookside Motel in Alexandria. During their …

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China on Friday launched the first cross-border train of its multi-billion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) from Laos, which Beijing says will help the small and only landlocked country in South East Asia turn into a land-linked hub, boost regional connectivity and supply chain resilience. Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Laos’ counterpart Thongloun Sisoulith jointly witnessed the opening of the China-Laos railway via video link on Friday. The first train of the China-Laos Railway left Vientiane soon after the cross-border railway was officially put into operation, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported. Besides China, Laos shares borders with Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar and Cambodia which offered Beijing to extend the train project to those countries. Laos is the only landlocked country in South East Asia. Like China, which is ruled by the Communist Party, it is a one-party socialist republic governed by the Lao People's Revolutionary Party. The 1,035-km …

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The Biden administration is forcing Americans to provide a negative coronavirus test when traveling back into the country, yet illegal border crossers are not held to the same standard, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) noted Thursday, railing against President Biden’s inconsistent coronavirus mandates. “What President Biden’s doing by trying to impose more restrictions, he’s now going to say if you go to the Bahamas as an American citizen and you come back, you’ve got to do a test, a COVID test. But if you just come right across the boarder illegally, that somehow that’s fine and we don’t care about the test or vaccination, I just don’t understand,” DeSantis said during the press conference in Pensacola, Florida, where he proposed $100 million in the budget for the Florida National Guard, as well as the creation of a Florida State Guard. Indeed, on Thursday, Biden announced a change in the rules for international travel, requiring travelers to provide a negative coronavirus test within …

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The U.S. on Tuesday warned of "serious consequences" if Russia escalates the conflict in Ukraine, sending a clear message to Russian President Vladimir Putin Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin Overnight Defense & National Security — Quick vote on defense bill blocked again Kremlin claims Ukraine may try to win back rebel-controlled regions by force Blinken threatens coordinated sanctions on Russia over Ukraine MORE as he continues to mobilize troops on the border of his neighboring country. Secretary of State Antony Blinken Antony Blinken Overnight Defense & National Security — Quick vote on defense bill blocked again Kremlin claims Ukraine may try to win back rebel-controlled regions by force Blinken: Iran actions risk collapse of new talks MORE met with NATO officials in Riga, Latvia, where they discussed the Russian troop buildup at the northern and eastern Ukrainian border, which many fear could spark a conflict in a region already …

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