Border Patrol Agents Bust Illegal Immigrants
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Border Patrol Agents Bust Illegal Immigrants
LAST UPDATE: 4/20/2006 10:37:07 PM
Posted By: Lauren Jenkins
Immigration reform and protecting the US border are two topics, with recent protests across the country, and the U.S. Senate battling over how to handle the issues. The U.S. Customs and Border Patrol just opened a new checkpoint in South Texas. Border agents gave News 4 WOAI exclusive access to be there on a bust and round-up on Thursday.
The day starts with a trip to Encinal, Northwest of Laredo where agents have just rounded up 16 immigrants trying to get away in a pick-up truck.
"When we arrived, the vehicle was pulled out to the side of the road and the group had split,” Senior Patrol agent Robert Perez tells News 4 WOAI.
The group took off in a brushy patch, but the trained agents use foot patterns to find the group.
“We have a track of one alien here, and you can see the outline of the track, or the sole of his shoe," says Agent Perez. "This is a tennis shoe."
Agents can tell how long the immigrants have been in waiting by the trash they leave lying around. At one lay up point, agents found extra clothes, empty water bottles and an empty backpack. Agents search from both the ground and the sky. Helicopters are brought in to make sure everyone is found.
“We'll interview them a little further to establish their nationality to make sure they're not from another country,” says Agent Perez. “[We’ll] make sure, they're from the country they say they're from."
All of the immigrants, including at 15-year-old boy, say they’re from Mexico. They’re brought to the new checkpoint to be fingerprinted and identified and held before being sent back across the border.
Agents say it’s all in a days work, and that they’ll be back out again on Friday to do it once again.
Border Patrol Agents Bust Illegal Immigrants
LAST UPDATE: 4/20/2006 10:37:07 PM
Posted By: Lauren Jenkins
Immigration reform and protecting the US border are two topics, with recent protests across the country, and the U.S. Senate battling over how to handle the issues. The U.S. Customs and Border Patrol just opened a new checkpoint in South Texas. Border agents gave News 4 WOAI exclusive access to be there on a bust and round-up on Thursday.
The day starts with a trip to Encinal, Northwest of Laredo where agents have just rounded up 16 immigrants trying to get away in a pick-up truck.
"When we arrived, the vehicle was pulled out to the side of the road and the group had split,” Senior Patrol agent Robert Perez tells News 4 WOAI.
The group took off in a brushy patch, but the trained agents use foot patterns to find the group.
“We have a track of one alien here, and you can see the outline of the track, or the sole of his shoe," says Agent Perez. "This is a tennis shoe."
Agents can tell how long the immigrants have been in waiting by the trash they leave lying around. At one lay up point, agents found extra clothes, empty water bottles and an empty backpack. Agents search from both the ground and the sky. Helicopters are brought in to make sure everyone is found.
“We'll interview them a little further to establish their nationality to make sure they're not from another country,” says Agent Perez. “[We’ll] make sure, they're from the country they say they're from."
All of the immigrants, including at 15-year-old boy, say they’re from Mexico. They’re brought to the new checkpoint to be fingerprinted and identified and held before being sent back across the border.
Agents say it’s all in a days work, and that they’ll be back out again on Friday to do it once again.
posted by Cindy Lou- LoneStar Minutemen/Texas Minutemen at 9:49 PM
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