Hours after the Alice Independent School District in South Texas said they received information that Border Patrol agents may be boarding school buses at highway checkpoints in and out of the Rio Grande Valley, U.S. Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks said during a television appearance on Feb. 6 that the rumors were "absurd" and that Border Patrol agents are not going to target school buses and children.
In a video posted on his X account, Banks reiterated that agents are not targeting buses nor other public spaces such as schools or churches.
