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🚨 WANTED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT APPREHENDED IN STARR COUNTY 3/14/26: The Texas DPS Brush Team, working alongside U.S. Border Patrol in Roma, Texas, tracked and apprehended two illegal immigrants hiding in the brush during the early morning hours. One individual, identified as Diogenes Saravia Ochoa, 45, of Honduras, was found...

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