Los Angeles.- Border Patrol Agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector (Texas) detained 136 undocumented migrants in four separate events, the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reported Tuesday.
On March 7, agents from the Fort Brown Station detected a group of 86 migrants they were walking north from the Rio Grande border (Río Bravo in Mexico) in Brownsville. The group included 31 members of family units and 55 adults traveling alone.
Seventy-five of the migrants came from Nicaragua and the rest from other Central American countries and Colombia, the CBP said in a bulletin.
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Hours earlier, the Rio Grande City Police Department (RGC PD) received information about two apartments that were being used to house migrants. Border agents and RGC PD officers went to the apartments and discovered a total of 12 migrants and a caretaker.
Agents determined that the migrants were originally from Mexico, Honduras and Peru. All were arrested by Border Patrol agents and the caretaker, a Mexican national, was turned over to the RGC PD.
That same day, border agents along with personnel from the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office discovered five undocumented immigrants from El Salvador and Mexico who were being housed in a residence in Weslaco.
And on March 8, border agents received information about a residence in Sullivan City that possibly housed migrants. The agents went to the site and found 33 undocumented immigrants, whom they transferred to a corporation station.
CBP indicated that all migrants were processed in accordance with applicable standards.
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