Additionally, over the past week, Big Bend Sector Agents thwarted nine Undocumented Non-Citizen smuggling attempts leading to the arrest of 65 illegal aliens.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the El Paso area ports of entry have encountered individuals attempting to smuggle fentanyl concealed internally within their bodies over the past week.
Within days of each other, Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents discovered undocumented individuals using railcars as a dangerous method of traveling further into the United States.
