(The Center Square) – Texas Department of Public Safety troopers continue to apprehend human smugglers in border counties, as well as people from countries of foreign concern, including Syria, as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security mission, Operation Lone Star.

In Maverick County, DPS troopers apprehended a group of 31 illegal border crossers, including two Syrian men. In the group were 18 men and 13 women who are citizens of Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru and Venezuela.