Federal prosecutors filed 239 more border cases in one week.

The cases were filed from Aug. 28 through Sept. 3. In all, 247 people were charged. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas gave those numbers. It said 232 of them were in the country without legal status.

The week before, the same office filed 245 cases. It charged 248 people that week. So the new count is down by six cases. The pace is close to flat.

Three weeks back the count was lower. The office charged 199 people from Aug. 7 through Aug. 13. It filed 198 cases that week. Then it charged 230 people from Aug. 14 through Aug. 20.

The trend is clear. The count went up through mid August. Then it leveled off near 240 a week.

Some of the new cases come from the Rio Grande Valley.

Three men are charged with coming back to the Valley this year after being sent out. Coming back after being sent out is a federal crime.

One is Junior Fidel Ramos-Leiva. He is from Honduras. Court papers say he has a past robbery conviction.

Two more are from Mexico. Court papers say Brayan Valadez-Hernandez has two past drug felonies. They say Brayan Gutierrez-Salvador has a past smuggling conviction.

Agents also found three more men from Mexico in the district.

Court papers say Jose Ivan Hernandez-Martinez had a past case for having a gun while here without papers. They say Jose Francisco Torres-Olguin had a past smuggling case. Both were sent out in 2025.

Jose Luis Amezcua-Gutierrez was found near Hidalgo. He was sent out in 2024. That came after a child sex crime conviction, the office said.

The office said they face up to 20 years in prison if found guilty.

Most of the week's cases were reentry cases. The office filed 171 of them.

Another 41 people were charged with illegal entry. That means crossing in without permission.

Then 42 people were charged with human smuggling. That means helping move people across the line for pay. Of those 42, twenty were here without papers too.

The rest were other border charges and gun charges.

Two men in the same reports were not just charged. They were found guilty. Both were sent to prison.

Ivan Gerardo Castillo-Castro got 33 months. That is close to three years. He is from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. He was here without legal status. His charge was having a gun while here without papers.

The court heard about his past. He had past cases for assault and for coming back after being sent out. The court heard he hit a partner, a young person, and a police officer. He also joined a gang-style attack on other inmates while he waited to be sentenced.

A second man was sentenced in Houston. Erik Guadalupe Ibarra Venegas is 25. He is from Mexico. He got 16 months in federal prison. He must also pay $100.

He came in on a visa and stayed past its end date. That made it a crime for him to have a gun.

Police in Hedwig Village got a call on Oct. 28, 2025. A man was in the road with bikes and tools. Officers asked him about guns. He showed them a 5.56 caliber pistol. He gave a false name. Prints showed who he was.

He pleaded guilty on June 5. Judge Keith P. Ellison gave him the sentence. He stays in jail until he moves to a federal prison. He is expected to face removal after his term.

Many agencies sent these cases in. They include Border Patrol and the two ICE branches. The DEA, the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service, and ATF helped too. State and local police also helped.

The office covers 43 counties. It serves more than 10 million people. It has seven divisions. Two of them sit in the Valley, in McAllen and Brownsville. A third sits in Laredo.

The cases are part of a national push by the Justice Department.

Neither release names the U.S. Attorney for the district.

A charge is not proof of guilt. Everyone is presumed innocent until proved otherwise.