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Urgent advisory: Border Patrol put on high alert, told to watch for illegal immigrants looking to kill cops

March 27, 2021
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By K. Winters

ARIZONA – As Law Enforcement Today has consistently reported, the crisis at the border continues to worsen and intensify daily. Former President Trump was seen as a President who was not welcoming to migrants, and was tough on immigration.

President Biden made it a point when running for office to showcase how welcoming he would be to immigrants seeing refuge from their countries of origin.

President Biden has only been in office for a little over two months, but now, in addition to migrants flooding the U.S. borders, a select few allegedly have the intentions of setting foot on American soil and killing our men and women in blue.

According to The Washington Times, the Border Patrol in Arizona was put on alert this past week over intelligence that two Mexican migrants planned to jump the border to try to kill a cop.

The alert came in the form of a “Be on the lookout”, or a “BOLO” bulletin, and despite the fact that the details that were obtained were very specific, they have not been corroborated.

However, the alert outlined the details which stated that the attack was going to take place by two men early Thursday Morning, and gave the specific location where the potential break of the border was intended to take place.

According to reports, one of the two men was identified in the bulletin as Eduardo Molina-Flores, a 49-year-old Mexican man who is on a Homeland Security “watchlist.”

In the Border Patrol Bulletin, which was titled “BOLO-Officer Safety/Situational Awareness/Armed Suspect”, agents warned:

“It has been reported that the subject’s intent is to kill a local law enforcement officer,”

The BOLO was apparently labeled “Law Enforcement Sensitive”, however it is reported that there was no specific agency mentioned as the target.

This warning comes as more than 8,500 Mexican troops have been deployed to the border in order to assist with the ever growing migrant crisis.

Here is more on that story.

MEXICO – According to a recent report from Breitbart News, Mexican officials were said to have deployed 8,715 soldiers to help stifle the flow of migrants crossing into the United States.

Secretary of Defense Luis Cresencio Sandoval recently announced during a press conference, that the Mexican military had established 347 immigration checkpoints in the country along three main routes – specifically the Gulf, Center, and Pacific.

According to Sandoval, the Mexican military forces have already “rescued” nearly 13,000 migrants in March, so far. However, it’s unclear whether these migrants were willing travelers that were simply apprehended, or if they were being held captive by human smugglers.

This deployment of troops comes around the same time that President Joe Biden put into motion a U.S. diplomatic delegation to visit Mexico City and discuss the issues impacting the U.S.-Mexico border with officials.

Mexico has been rather diligent with addressing the surge in migrants towards their own country, too.

Back in January, Mexican officials deployed roughly 800 Mexican National Guard members to the country’s border with Guatemala, in an effort to combat the likes of migrant caravans.

The efforts that were made in January obviously serve as a de facto benefit to the United States in curbing illegal immigration.

To the credit of Mexican officials, their continued efforts are helping to not make the issues impacting the U.S.-Mexico border worse than what they already are.

For instance, in February, Mexican authorities initiated a raid of the Palacio Hotel in downtown Monterrey where they found a group of 135 Central Americans that were trying to make their way to Texas.

Just one week prior to that effort, Mexican authorities in the state of Veracruz managed to thwart human smugglers that were trying to traffic over 200 Central Americans across the border to Texas.

Meanwhile, back in the United States, Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities are showing some of the lowest numbers of detainees.

We at Law Enforcement Today recently shared a report regarding this phenomenon regarding ICE facilities. Here’s that previous report.

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WASHINGTON, DC – According to reports, the total number of illegal immigrants being held inside of Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities in February of 2021 has hit a “record low” according to research conducted by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.

According to a study conducted by Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, or TRAC for short, showed that while detention facility bookings have increased with regard to Border Patrol, ICE bookings into detention facilities has dwindled considerably.

The study notes the following initially:

“As of the end of President Biden’s first full month in office, the number of individuals arrested by ICE and booked into civil immigrant detention fell sharply from 5,119 ICE book-in arrests during January 2021 to just 1,970 during February 2021. According to the latest ICE figures, this was a drop of 62 percent just in a single month.”

After noting that there was a considerable drop in ICE-enacted bookings, the study showcased the increase in bookings enacted by Border Patrol:

“In contrast, those turned over to ICE for detention from arrests by the Border Patrol and at ports of entry climbed, from 3,024 to 4,696 in February after the Biden administration began allowing a limited numbers of families and adults, particularly those seeking asylum, to enter the United States.”

When reviewing the data regarding detainees within ICE facilities by the end of February, the report noted that there were only 13,529 people actively in ICE detention.

It should be noted that ICE detention facilities have collectively booked a lower number of detainees since the end of March, 2020 – and that can be deduced for logical reasons due to the pandemic, which the study also pointed out:

“Those remaining in ICE custody from ICE interior arrests changed only modestly between October 2018 when they were 21,368 and March 2020 when they were 19,174, before falling more sharply after the pandemic hit.”

But the more interesting data point that makes February, 2021 so unique is that detainees actually booked by ICE fell below the number of detainees booked by Border Patrol when compared to recent months.

From April, 2020 up until January of 2021, detainees arrested by ICE and booked into facilities ranged between 5,103-6,805 per month. Looking at the same period, detainees arrested by Border Patrol and booked into facilities ranged between 1,585-3,024.

But in February, 2021, detainees arrested by ICE were only at 1,970; and Border Patrol arrests booked into detention centers were at 4,696 (the first time Border Patrol bookings overcame ICE bookings since December, 2019).

While any number of things could be impacting ICE activities and arrest numbers, it is a rather bizarre drop in bookings by the agency.

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