Texas Nabs Six Camo-Clad Chinese on Border Ranch
The border is now so secure that their apprehension is ‘newsworthy’ — unlike under the last administration
By Andrew R. Arthur on May 29, 2026
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The Daily Wire has reported that on May 26 officers from the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) apprehended “six Chinese nationals dressed in camouflage as they tried to sneak across the southern border”. Technically, they had already snuck across the border, because DPS nabbed them and six other individuals on one of many private ranches that dot Maverick County, Texas — an area that saw relatively few Chinese entries even when it was a smuggling highway for migrants from less “sensitive” countries. The biggest question is why they were there, and how they arrived.
Operation Lone Star and the Biden Border Surge
Almost immediately after President Biden took office in January 2021, increasing numbers of migrants began pouring over the 1,954-mile Southwest border, and in particular the 1,254 miles of that border where Mexico is separated from Texas by the Rio Grande.
According to the DHS Office of Homeland Security Statistics (OHSS), Border Patrol agents in the Del Rio sector (which includes Maverick County) apprehended fewer than 133,500 illegal entrants in FYs 2018-2020, combined.
In FY 2021 alone, agents apprehended more than 259,000 illicit migrants there, and nearly 481,000 more in FY 2022. Add it up, and that’s roughly the population of Denver, Colo.
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