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       Texas Border Patrol agents arrest four MS-13 gang members in 14-hour span Four members of the MS-13 street gang were arrested by Border Patrol agents within a 14-hour span; Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin reports on the latest.

       Three members of MS-13 and a convicted child sex predator were arrested on Monday in the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector, Customs and Border Protection announced.

       One of the arrestees, a Salvadoran national whose records showed she was a member of MS-13, was displaying COVID-19 symptoms and tested positive.

       Another Salvadoran National was arrested by McAllen Border Patrol Station agents near Mission, Texas, and admitted that he was a member of MS-13.

       Later in the day, Kingsville Border Patrol Station agents arrested six migrants near Sarita, Texas. One of them was a Salvadoran national who was an MS-13 member.

       A member of MS-13 makes his gang's sign. (Reuters)

       Another Salvadoran national was arrested near Roma, Texas, who was convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child 27 years ago in New Jersey. He was deported from the United States after that arrest in 1994.

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       Separately in Arizona, two other child sex predators were arrested in recent days.

       A border patrol agent guards a gap in the Mexico-U.S. border fence in the Rio Grande Valley sector, near McAllen, Texas, U.S., April 5, 2018. (REUTERS/Loren Elliott)

       Jose Vazquez-Ramirez, a Mexican national who was convicted in California of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor under 16, was arrested by Nogales Station agents on Wednesday.

       On Sunday, Mexican national Erasmo Galan-Palacios was arrested near Naco, Arizona. He was convicted of lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 in California in 2005, according to the CBP.

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       Erasmo Galan-Palacios, a Mexican national, was arrested in Arizona on Sunday. (Customs and Border Protection, Tucson Sector)

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       Jose Vazquez-Ramirez, a Mexican national, was arrested on Wednesday. (Customs and Border Protection, Tucson Sector)

       The arrests come as record numbers of migrants are apprehended at the southern border.

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       More than 1.7 million migrants were detained at the border in fiscal year 2021, which ended in September. About half a million migrants were arrested between October and December of last year.