Brackettville, TX

DEL RIO  – U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to Del Rio Sector’s Eagle Pass Station apprehended six large groups of illegal aliens within a 36-hour period, May 16-17, shortly after they illegally entered the United States. The U.S. Border Patrol categorizes groups of 100 or more illegal aliens as “large groups.” During the current fiscal year, Del Rio Sector has encountered 112 such groups, which accounts for approximately half the large groups encountered by Border Patrol nationwide. Around noon, May 16, agents encountered 158 illegals just after making illegal entry into the United…

DEL RIO, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to Del Rio Sector apprehended a man, wanted by the Government of Mexico in connection with the murder of a Mexican politician, May 17. At approximately 6:35 p.m., Eagle Pass Station agents apprehended the 25-year-old Mexican national after he illegally...

When thousands of Haitians – like Dachka and Exode – arrived in the unlikely border town of Del Rio, Texas, they hoped they were crossing the finish line of an arduous immigration journey. But when the U.S. started flying some families back to Haiti (including their South American children) migrants were forced to make a critical decision: stay in the U.S. migrant camp and risk expulsion – or return to Mexico.

DEL RIO – U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to Del Rio Sector’s Eagle Pass Station apprehended five large groups of illegal aliens in less than 31 hours over the weekend. They were encountered almost immediately after they illegally entered the United States and three were apprehended in a span of 10 hours. The U.S. Border Patrol categorizes groups of 100 or more illegals as “large groups.” During the current fiscal year, Del Rio Sector has encountered 108 such groups, which accounts for approximately half the large groups encountered by Border Patrol nationwide. On Saturday, May 14, at…

When 16,000 Haitians arrived in Del Rio, Texas in September 2021, the humanitarian crisis made international headlines. But the unlikely spectacle at the Texas-Mexico border was just a glimpse of an immigration journey like no other – one that extends more than 10,000 miles, from the rubble of the 2010 Haitian earthquake, through South America… all the way to Del Rio and the Houston suburbs.

A 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti killing 150,000 people, and displacing 1.5 million more in 2010. In the aftermath, many Haitians fled to Brazil and Chile seeking a place to call home. In mid-September 2021, an influx of Haitian migrants sought refuge in Del Rio, Texas after years of traveling through South and Central America.

DEL RIO, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to Del Rio Sector arrested a convicted sex offender shortly after illegally entering the United States. On May 16, at 5:15 a.m., Uvalde agents encountered a single subject walking the railroad toward San Antonio. Agents determined he was illegally present in the United States and transported him to the Eagle Pass Soft Side Processing facility. Record checks revealed the man, a Mexican national, Jose Vega-Santos, was previously convicted for aggravated indecent liberties of a child in Kansas City, Missouri in 2009 and deported in 2017.

DEL RIO, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to Del Rio Sector’s Eagle Pass Station apprehended six large groups of migrants within a 36-hour period, May 16-17, shortly after they illegally entered the United States. The U.S. Border Patrol categorizes groups of 100 or more undocumented migrants...

Volunteers with the Devil’s Sinkhole Society are holding two free guided nature walks on Saturday, May 14. The first begins at 10 a.m. and the second begins at 1 p.m. Participants will meet at the Rocksprings Visitors Center, 101 N. Sweeten St., located on the town square. They will...

DEL RIO — Fox San Antonio has reported about people coming to the Mexico border with Texas for years. It's a journey that only allows for small momentos of home to be brought as families are split apart in some cases to survive political instability. Investigative Reporter Yami Virgin witnessed some will risk everything to bring man's best friend on the treacherous journey.

Trait and I are on our way to a Yamaha Turkey Bass Smash event they’re putting on with their pro staff anglers. It’s being held in Del Rio, Texas, over the weekend. We’ll spend one day hunting turkeys and another fishing legendary Lake Amistad. We’ve been with...

The Texas wine industry has evolved into a major economic component of the Texas economy. It was 43 years after Prohibition ended that Texas got its first new winery. Four years later in 1980 there were three new wineries along with the only winery to survive Prohibition, being Val Verde Winery in Del Rio, Texas. This winery was started in the 1800s by an Italian family and survived Prohibition by making sacramental wines for Christian churches. Those three new wineries in 1980 included Llano Estacado, Fall Creek and Messina Hof Winery. Twenty-five years later in 2005, Texas had 50 wineries. At that point, the Texas wine industry grew exponentially exceeding 500 wineries in 2018 with the number continuing to escalate. By the end of 2022, I predict that Texas should have 1,000 wineries.