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Tuesday, April 23, 2013  A New Jersey mother is behind bars in the Rio Grande Valley after she allegedly smuggled a Guatemalan child in order to help pay her daughter’s quinceanera.

Tuesday, April 09, 2013  Two men are facing criminal charges after Border Patrol agents allegedly caught them  with 13 illegal immigrants from four different countries cramped into a mini-van.

Sunday, March 17, 2013  A Brownsville woman was arrested on Thursday after authorities discovered her home was a stash house.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013  While Washington discusses how to help undocumented workers gain legal status, the U.S. Border Patrol is reporting the numbers of apprehensions is growing both nationally and locally.

Friday, December 21, 2012  Border Patrol said non-Mexican illegal immigrants are accounting for a slender majority of the agency's apprehensions in South Texas.

Tuesday, December 11, 2012  A 14-year-old driver whose high-speed flight from authorities near the Texas-Mexico border ended with two Guatemalan immigrants being shot to death by a trooper in a helicopter has been recaptured after he failed to appear in court.

Saturday, November 17, 2012  Two Democratic state lawmakers said they couldn't tell from their viewing of a DPS video that immigrants were hidden beneath a tarp in a fleeing pickup truck an airborne trooper fired upon.

Friday, November 16, 2012  The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) is seeking to block a request for dashcam video and radio communications in a fatal immigrant chase north of La Joya.

Friday, November 02, 2012  State officials are asking the FBI and U.S. Justice Department to conduct an independent investigation of a fatal chase that claimed the lives of two Guatemalan immigrants north of La Joya.

Thursday, November 01, 2012  Civil rights groups are demanding justice for two Guatemalan immigrants killed by gunfire from a state police helicopter during a chase north of La Joya.

Thursday, November 01, 2012  The Texas Department of Public Safety has released the name of the state trooper who fired on a fleeing pickup truck near the U.S.-Mexico border, killing two illegal immigrants who were hiding under a blanket in the bed.

Wednesday, October 31, 2012  Hidalgo County District Attorney Rene Guerra told Action 4 News that he met with DPS officials to review that aerial video from a fatal La Joya chase.

Wednesday, October 31, 2012  Hidalgo County District Attorney Rene Guerra is scheduled to meet with state police officials investigating the deaths of two Guatemalan immigrants during a fatal chase north of La Joya.

Monday, October 29, 2012  A Guatemalan diplomat has released the identities of two immigrants killed last week when a state police helicopter fired on their smuggler's truck near La Joya.

Friday, October 26, 2012  Diplomats are investigating the arrest of seven Guatemalans who were fired on by a state police helicopter in Texas during a chase that left two people dead near the Mexico border.