At the southern border: Dozens of migrants detained as Border Patrol contends with the nightly influxMCALLEN, Texas – It was a routine evening for the U.S. Border Patrol in this town just across the border from northern Mexico. It was also a night filled with drama.
In the course of just a few hours on the southern border Thursday night, dozens of migrants were detained, clothes and personal items were left at a migrant landing spot on the Rio Grande and a drone likely belonging to a cartel could be seen apparently surveilling Border Patrol movements.
Embedded with a group that included Reps. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., Kat Cammack, R-Fla., and Stephanie Bice, R-Okla., Fox News Digital was on hand as National Border Patrol Council members shared what they experience on a nightly basis on the southern border.
Almost immediately after the tour began at 10:30 p.m., Border Patrol radio frequencies relayed that officers had pulled someone out of the Rio Grande. A few minutes later, radios went off again, alerting that different individuals had been detained near a Burger King just a few hundred yards from the border.
Border Patrol apprehends a group of migrants near a section of the border wall near Hidalgo, Texas.
Border Patrol apprehends a group of migrants near a section of the border wall near Hidalgo, Texas. (Tyler Olson/Fox News)
US-MEXICO BORDER CONTINUES TO BREAK RECORDS FOR MIGRANT ENCOUNTERS
Then, just before 11 p.m., several Border Patrol vehicles and officers stopped near a section of border wall to detain a large group of about 40 migrants. Migrants were handed masks and lined up before likely being taken to a nearby processing center.
Yet Cammack said that the group was not even close to the largest she'd seen in previous visits to the border.
At another stop on the tour, south of the border wall on the banks of the Rio Grande, National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) members spotted red and green flashing lights hovering on the Mexican side of the border.
Those lights were from a drone likely belonging to a cartel, the NBPC officials said. They added that the drones are a common sight, used by the cartels to monitor the movements of Border Patrol and other law enforcement agencies and to guide people crossing each night.
A blinking red light on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande Thursday, June 16, 2022, appeared to be a cartel drone, National Border Patrol Council Members told Fox News Digital.
A blinking red light on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande Thursday, June 16, 2022, appeared to be a cartel drone, National Border Patrol Council Members told Fox News Digital. (Tyler Olson/Fox News)
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