Weslaco

“We are waiting for them to come back home,” Maria Guadalupe Ramirez, 27, told KRGV-TV in Weslaco.

In Texas, Mr. Banks is a former agent in charge of the Border Patrol Weslaco Station who has three decades of experience in law enforcement, according to the governor.

Homeland Security Investigations agents had the Mid-Valley Airport in the lower Rio Grande Valley city of Weslaco under surveillance Sunday when they saw Martinez and Lopez-Alvarado drop off six people who boarded a chartered Beechcraft airplane with Rodarte.

Mr. Cadriel and his wife, Diana, a retired educator, both voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, and then cast their ballots for Mr. Trump four years later, convinced that he would best protect the southern border, a mere 10 miles from their Weslaco home.

The death of the juvenile, who was found in a holding cell at the Border Patrol’s station in Weslaco, Texas, on May 20, 2019, sparked questions at the time, with ProPublica reporting on the lack of checks and suggesting those failures were implicated in his death.