Chris Olivarez is a Lieutenant with the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) and that agency's official spokesman. On Wednesday, he took to his official X account to break some concerning news, of the arrest of seven Chinese nationals on a private ranch near Eagle Pass. Lt. Olivarez notes that a TX DPS K-9 unit aided the United States Border Patrol in the tracking and capture of the camouflage-garbed Chinese nationals.
#NEW: SPECIAL INTEREST ALIENS APPREHENDED IN MAVERICK CO—TEXAS DPS K-9 BONA ASSISTS IN TRACKING GROUP ON PRIVATE RANCH
— Chris Olivarez (@LtChrisOlivarez) May 27, 2026
On 5/26/26, @TxDPS Tracking K-9 Bona and her handler assisted the U.S. Border Patrol in Maverick County, tracking, locating, and apprehending seven illegal… pic.twitter.com/zqKPbdEFJJ
The post reads:
#NEW: SPECIAL INTEREST ALIENS APPREHENDED IN MAVERICK CO—TEXAS DPS K-9 BONA ASSISTS IN TRACKING GROUP ON PRIVATE RANCH
On 5/26/26, @TxDPS Tracking K-9 Bona and her handler assisted the U.S. Border Patrol in Maverick County, tracking, locating, and apprehending seven illegal immigrants attempting to evade capture on a private ranch. The group, from Mexico, Guatemala, India, Ecuador, and Cuba, was referred to the U.S. Border Patrol.
In a second apprehension later that night, U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended 12 illegal immigrants on a private ranch in Maverick County, including six Special Interest Aliens (SIAs) from China, all dressed in camouflage.
These apprehensions highlight the ongoing efforts in deterring criminal activity along the southern border and the critical partnership between Texas DPS and our federal partners under Operation Lone Star. Border security is national security.
This bust, while noteworthy, is part of a disturbing trend that's been going on even after the Trump administration's 2025 border crackdown: Chinese nationals, almost all young, unattached, military-aged men, entering the United States illegally.
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The best estimate is, right now, between 250,000 and 400,000 Chinese nationals in the United States illegally. In case anyone hasn't noticed, China isn't exactly friendly to the United States. They are a trade partner; a major trade partner, in fact. But that doesn't make them a friend. Friendly nations don't infiltrate young, military-aged men into other nations they are friendly with, and while there's no evidence that the seven Chinese nationals nabbed near Eagle Pass were sent by the Chinese government, by which I mean the Chinese Communist Party, we might note that little goes on in the Middle Kingdom without the Chinese Communist Party's blessing.
And as for those 250,000 to 400,000 Chinese nationals here already, thanks to the non-enforcement of immigration law by the late, unlamented Biden administration, we now have very little idea where a lot of those people are or what they are doing. Some of been caught photographing sensitive military bases, running illegal biology labs, and so forth. None of those facts is comforting, not by a long shot.
These seven Chinese nationals, though, were apparently caught, and kudos to the officers and to the K-9 responsible. Send them back across the Pacific to where they belong.
As of this writing, the TX DPS hasn't yet issued any press release on the incident. You can see the department's website here.
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