Sandra Sanchez

1 week ago | cbs42.com | Sandra Sanchez

McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — At a time when apprehensions along the Southwest border are at historic lows, arrests on the northern border in Maine are at historic highs, U.S. Customs and Border Protection says. The number of arrests by Border Patrol agents in Maine in April was the single highest month in 24 years. That included the arrest of 113 migrants from 16 different countries, CBP says.

1 week ago | borderreport.com | Sandra Sanchez

McALLEN, Texas ( Border Report) - A man found guilty of human smuggling has been sentenced to almost four years in prison after leading law enforcement on a high-speed chase through a South Texas border town. Julian Alberto Soto pleaded guilty and was sentenced on May 20 to human smuggling charges, U.S. Border Patrol said. The agency says Soto led agents and Texas Department of of Public Safety troopers on a high-speed chase in Roma, Texas.

3 weeks ago | borderreport.com | Sandra Sanchez

HIDALGO, Texas ( Border Report) - Over $2.1 million in illegal drugs were seized in two large incidents at South Texas ports recently, U.S. Customs and Border Protection says. Over $618,000 of cocaine was seized Wednesday at the McAllen-Hidalgo-Reynosa International Bridge from a car coming from Mexico, CBP says. The drugs were confiscated after the car was sent for secondary inspection and nonintrusive inspection equipment was used, CBP says.

3 weeks ago | borderreport.com | Sandra Sanchez

McALLEN, Texas ( Border Report) - Mexico recently paid a small portion of the water it owes the United States under a 1944 international treaty. A total of 56,750 acre-feet of water was paid via "a transfer of ownership in Amistad Dam" on April 30, Frank Fisher, spokesman for U.S. Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission told Border Report on Wednesday.

3 weeks ago | borderreport.com | Sandra Sanchez

US Supreme Court to take up issue on ThursdayMcALLEN, Texas ( Border Report) - Ending birthright citizenship would increase the U.S. population of undocumented immigrants, not reduce it, according to a new study released Tuesday.