Laredo Texas Chief Patrol Agent Jesse Muñoz verified that over 300 Texas National Guard soldiers are arriving in his Laredo Sector to enhance border security.
On Feb. 7 and Feb. 8, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations officers at the Anzalduas and Hidalgo International Bridges intercepted $1,328,000 in cocaine in two separate incidents.
As recently as Feb. 3, there were several reports of gunfire incidents in Nuevo Laredo, and even close to the international bridge.
Webb County Sheriff Martin Cuellar recently issued a statement that U.S. residents should take precautions when traveling into Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, which is across the Rio Grande from Laredo.
On February 8, 2025 federal agents arrested U.S. Customs and Border Protection CBP Officer Manuel Perez Jr., 32, suspected of being involved in human and cocaine smuggling for years on the El Paso border. He was the second CBP officer working on Paso Del Norte Bridge, arrested for such crimes in the last four months.
Since November 2019 until this month, Perez was also allegedly involved in a conspiracy to smuggle more than five kilos of cocaine that was distributed in Texas, Louisiana, North Carolina and other places, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a news release.
As recent as January 8, 2025, in Yuma, Arizona, a white Ford F-150 pickup customized to match a local federal K-9 unit down to the license plate number was repeatedly used to smuggle drugs or pick up migrants at the border wall.
On Feb. 15, 2024, U.S. Border Patrol agents in Newfield, Arizona, came across a van made to look like one of their own. The driver and 11 illegal aliens were arrested.
Later that month Federal officials near Laredo, in South Texas, arrested four smuggling gang members after stopping a semi-trailer with fake Union Pacific logos transporting aliens on Interstate 35.
Border Patrol agents and Texas Department of Public Safety troopers encountered 26 migrants when they stopped a pair of “cloned” FedEx vans in June 2023 in West El Paso.
“Using vehicles that appear to be Border Patrol (units) or construction crew (vehicles) are tactics commonly used by members of human smuggling organizations to conceal illegal activity when operating near the border wall,” the Border Patrol agency said in one recent federal complaint affidavit.
It is not uncommon to see replica uniforms, including shirts and hats of a similar color to U.S. Border Patrol uniforms like this found in Yuma, Arizona.
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I find myself being surprised, and then wonder why. Of course they would do that. But honest people don’t think like way.
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I’m amazed that federal officials can weed out the diabolical clones. 🙂
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Should we be surprised? Nope. The old saying, ” I wasn’t born in Texas, but I got here as quickly as I could” takes on a different meaning. Back in the mid 70s, A few of my friends and me took my VW Bus into Mexico on a surfing expedition. Coming back into Matamoros, the Border Patrol thought we might be smugglers. Our long hair and surfboards made us appear guilty. The agents did a nice job of taking the interior apart, and then reinstalling it, just like at the factory. Realizing we didn’t have illegals stuffed in the walls, the agents apologized. They did find a bottle of Tequila, but we were all over 21, so we kept it. Driving back to Port A, we passed a van that the Border patrol had stopped, and there must have been twenty illegals stuffed inside. Bingo, that’s why they checked us. Everyone could be a smuggler.
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Good days of yore with exciting times.
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