Texas Blue Shield

12/25/2020

May everyone have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!

12/25/2020

https://www.valleycentral.com/news/exclusive-human-trafficking-is-a-priority-in-the-rio-grande-valley-hsi-says/?fbclid=IwAR2oVutTUCuj_xYkVIwwjSJ9X2kl6I4zJ9WvSCUmWmGC1MXtdovfbuqyZzc

MCALLEN, Texas (KVEO) — Human trafficking is an issue that’s hardly talked about and often overlooked in the Rio Grande Valley. For federal law enforcement based in the Valley, the reality of…

12/25/2020

https://www.valleycentral.com/news/local-news/border-patrol-agents-arrest-84-individuals-over-two-day-period/?fbclid=IwAR1bU5zuVvLI6O1un43wlOQ5crnF6hYQP2BZcD1AhPyEbrey8DGAmFOSN3M

RIO GRANDE VALLEY, Texas (KVEO) — Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol agents arrested more than 80 undocumented immigrants across a two day period. On Wednesday, agents working near Mission stopp…

12/25/2020

https://www.valleycentral.com/border-report/cartels-telling-migrants-border-will-be-open-when-biden-takes-over-texas-democrat-says/?fbclid=IwAR0_waMAu3WQIYONf2RfCyvoksiKiZNvIgn33xr17RRJouuwo1yYtP1ftME

The Department of Homeland Security has been preparing for weeks, since the presidential election, for an onslaught of migrants from Central America to try to enter the U.S. Southwest border, and w…

10/22/2020

https://www.missinginbrookscounty.com

MISSING IN BROOKS COUNTY is the portrait of a town in Brooks County, Texas that finds itself at the epicenter of a growing humanitarian crisis. As Central Ameri

06/22/2019

Gone but not forgotten.

Corporal Jose Espericueta was shot and killed as he and other officers attempted to apprehend a subject who had threatened family members.

06/21/2019

Our condolences to the Mission Police Department for the loss of one of their officers, killed today in the line of duty by gunfire.

CBS 4 (KGBT-TV) provides local news, weather forecasts, traffic updates, sports coverage, entertainment programming and other information of interest for the Rio Grande Valley area, including Falcon Heights, Salineno, Fronton, Roma, Escobares, La Rosita, Los Villareales, Rio Grande City, Las Lomas,....

06/02/2019

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/21/724946559/after-grim-deaths-in-the-borderlands-an-effort-to-find-out-who-migrants-were

More than 200 migrants die attempting to cross the Southwest border each year. Slowly, scientists at a Texas laboratory are seeking the story of their bones.

06/02/2019

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/us/mexico-border-deaths.amp.html

In this week’s Crossing the Border newsletter, a trip to Brooks County, deep in South Texas brush country, where the terrain is deadly.

04/26/2019

https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2019/04/18/meet-the-americans-fighting-crime-at-ground-zero-of-the-border-crisis/amp/

LA FERIA, TEXAS — Joe Adalpe III wants the border wall. The 32-year-old captain of the Cameron County Constable, Precinct 5, has been fighting crime in this small city of 5,000 nestled among onion …

04/18/2019

Texas Blue Shield, formerly known as the Border Brotherhood of Texas, is a group of Texas Peace Officers, who volunteer our time to assist the Brooks County Sheriff's office as reserve deputies.

We are proud to have our Reserve Deputy, Sgt Don White, start a 501(c)(3), non profit organization, that is going to be a tremendous help for us in Brooks County. Please visit the organization’s page and all donations will be tax deductible.

https://www.facebook.com/Remote-Wildlands-Search-and-Recovery-2011344245814924/

A non profit 501c3 dedicated to searching and recovering those that died crossing south Texas ranches.

04/14/2019

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/03/23/video-close-to-20-migrants-run-from-police-in-human-smuggling-attempt-70-miles-from-texas-border/

A group of migrants packed into a pickup truck ran away from authorities in a failed human smuggling attempt.