• 2016 Texas Murder Case: A U.S. Border Patrol agent, Joel Luna, was among several people arrested and charged in connection with the 2015 murder and decapitation of a Honduran national, Jose Francisco Rodriguez Palacios Paz, whose body was found off South Padre Island, Texas. Investigators alleged that Paz was killed because he was going to inform on a drug trafficking ring that the Luna brothers were involved in.
• Recent Texas Beheading (September 2025): Reports from September 2025 mention a different, recent incident in Dallas, Texas, where a hotel manager was allegedly beheaded by an undocumented immigrant from Cuba. Political figures, including Representative Ronny Jackson and Donald Trump, commented on this case, linking it to border and immigration policies. This incident involved a civilian, not a Border Patrol agent as the victim.
• Recent News regarding Border Patrol Personnel:Recent news from November 2025 covers various topics related to Border Patrol personnel, including a gang member soliciting the murder of a Border Patrol commander, a Border Patrol agent’s death in an overdose, and an agent being killed in a traffic stop in Vermont in January 2025. None of these mention decapitation. 

There is no information in the provided search results to suggest that a Border Patrol agent has been decapitated or had their head cut off as a victim of violence. The phrase “border patrol head cut off” in the user query appears to be related to the above-mentioned events where a Border Patrol agent was an accused perpetrator of a decapitation, or where the phrase is used metaphorically or in reference to recent political rhetoric surrounding a separate, unrelated beheading.