The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has reported that African and Middle Eastern nationals are among those crossing the Texas border illegally.
Troopers recently apprehended a group of 132 illegal immigrants in Maverick County, DPS wrote in a post on X.
“Within this group, Troopers found 32 unaccompanied children and minors, along with seven special interest immigrants from Iran and Angola,” the agency stated.
Special interests aliens (SIAs) are defined by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as noncitizens who potentially pose a national security risk to the United States, based on their travel patterns.
“Often such individuals or groups are employing travel patterns known or evaluated to possibly have a nexus to terrorism,” the DHS said. “DHS analysis includes an examination of travel patterns, points of origin, and/or travel segments that are tied to current assessments of national and international threat environments.”…