Mexico Arrests 6 U.S. Border Agents
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SAN DIEGO — An Immigration and Naturalization Service spokesman Saturday acknowledged that six off-duty U. S. Border Patrol officers had been briefly detained Friday in the Mexican border city of Mexicali after a disagreement with a citizen there.
Notimex, the Mexican government news agency, reported the six unidentified officers were arrested shortly before dawn Friday after they allegedly beat up a lawyer who had complained about their drunken and disorderly conduct.
Duke Austin, an INS spokesman in Washington, said he did not know whether any charges had been filed in the incident.
![Jaime Ernesto Alvarez-Gonzalez, a citizen of Mexico who is unlawfully present in the U.S., pleaded guilty in federal court today, admitting that he impersonated a U.S. Border Patrol Agent in order to disrupt deportation missions. During an incident on January 8, 2026, Alvarez-Gonzalez closely followed an actual Border Patrol agent while both were driving black Ford F-150 trucks. Alvarez-Gonzalez’s truck appeared to be an undercover Border Patrol vehicle and had a Border Patrol sticker on the windshield, non-functioning radio communications antennae on the roof, a lightbar on the dashboard, a license plate frame displaying the words “Ferderal Truck” [sic.], and handcuffs hanging from the rear-view mirror.](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/99bd528/2147483647/strip/true/crop/743x497+92+0/resize/1024x685!/format/webp/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F80%2Fe6%2F080b3451474bb7f56b7db1e952eb%2Fla-me-impersonating-border-patrol.jpg)
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