15 More BORSTAR Agents Assigned to South Texas Counties
Posted: May 30, 2013 3:40 PM
Updated: May 30, 2013 4:14 PM
HIDALGO COUNTY - Fifteen agents with the Border Patrol Search, Trauma and Rescue unit have been reassigned from the El Paso sector to the Brooks/Kenedy county region.
Brooks and Kenedy counties are home to two Border Patrol checkpoints. Illegal immigrants regularly try to walk around those sites. Those hikes often turn deadly, officials said.
Border Patrol officials said search and rescue missions spike between June and September.
The agents with BORSTAR are experts in tracking immigrants. They also are trained medics.
Border Patrol officials said the public must help by reporting groups of illegal immigrants.
"(If) you see a car drop off suspected illegal aliens, you've got to call that in," Border Patrol Rio Grande Sector Chief Rosendo Hinojosa said.
"A lot of us feel sorry for them. We're hoping that they get to Houston. The reality is we've had 85 people not get to their destination so far this year, and that's 85 too many," he said.
Brooks and Kenedy counties are home to two Border Patrol checkpoints. Illegal immigrants regularly try to walk around those sites. Those hikes often turn deadly, officials said.
Border Patrol officials said search and rescue missions spike between June and September.
The agents with BORSTAR are experts in tracking immigrants. They also are trained medics.
Border Patrol officials said the public must help by reporting groups of illegal immigrants.
"(If) you see a car drop off suspected illegal aliens, you've got to call that in," Border Patrol Rio Grande Sector Chief Rosendo Hinojosa said.
"A lot of us feel sorry for them. We're hoping that they get to Houston. The reality is we've had 85 people not get to their destination so far this year, and that's 85 too many," he said.
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