A federal judge in South Texas sentenced a former customs officer to prison for his role in a failed human smuggling scheme. The law enforcement officer used his position at an international port of entry to allow an illegal immigrant to enter the country.
The president of the San Antonio Police Officer Association called for his department’s chief to be placed on administrative leave after he released 12 illegal aliens being smuggled in an 18-wheeler in December. The union president also called for an investigation into what he called “obvious violations of the general manual.”
The San Antonio chief of police admitted to reporters on Friday that he released 12 alleged illegal aliens who were smuggled in the back of a tractor-trailer. He did so without allowing the federal government to properly vet them for criminal or immigration records. He also made the decision to charge the driver under Texas human smuggling statutes, despite releasing the purported witnesses to the alleged crime.
The apprehension and arrests of MS-13 members in the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector of South Texas are up 212 percent during the first three months of Fiscal Year 2018 over the same period in 2017.
Federal officials stopped the attempted smuggling of two Uzbek nationals who illegally crossed the border from Canada into New York. The effort led to the arrest of a U.S. citizen who officials say was transporting them.
Federal officers stopped a multinational human smuggling run off the Atlantic coast of Florida on Saturday. The smugglers were reportedly attempting to land 24 illegal aliens from six countries near West Palm Beach.
U.S. Border Patrol agents working at the Falfurrias checkpoint found 26 illegal aliens in the back of a rental truck late Friday. The driver of the vehicle is a U.S. citizen.
Border Patrol agents in the Laredo Sector busted a U.S. citizen for allegedly locking four illegal immigrants in the back of a cargo truck.
A truck driver who packed up to 200 illegal aliens into the back of his tractor-trailer pleaded guilty to Transporting Undocumented Aliens Resulting in Death. A total of 10 died after being locked for hours in the Texas summer heat.
Smuggling illegal aliens across the U.S.-Mexico border is becoming increasingly expensive. A new report shows how the price of human smuggling has “skyrocketed” under President Trump’s immigration enforcement actions.
Increased border security and control measures made human smuggling past the U.S.-Mexico Border more costly, a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report finds.
Getting across the U.S.-Mexico Border “would be a lot harder if they build that wall,” a human smuggler said in a report.
Federal prosecutors obtained an indictment charging a second man for the deaths of 10 illegal immigrants while being smuggled in a hot 18-wheeler this summer. The Department of Justice (DOJ) also announced it is not seeking the death penalty in these cases.
A mother and her juvenile daughter told Border Patrol agents they were sexually assaulted before crossing illegally into the United States from Mexico. The woman and her child managed to escape and joined up with another group as they prepared to cross the Rio Grande.
Five men in the Rio Grande Valley received prison sentences ranging from 16 to 30 years each for their roles in a human smuggling stash house kidnapping scheme. The men stole the human cargo from a stash house and then demanded the victims call family members to pay a ransom for their release. Two other previously deported illegal aliens also received sentences in the case.
Twenty-three illegal immigrants from China and seven from Mexico used a cartel tunnel to sneak into California. The arrest uncovered an illicit ingress point near a U.S.-Mexico port of entry, revealing the latest structure in a vast network used to smuggle humans and drugs.
A federal grand jury handed down an indictment against the Florida truck driver arrested in connection with the deaths of 10 illegal aliens. The man is accused of hauling more than 100 illegal aliens from Laredo to San Antonio. He allegedly locked the illegal aliens in the back of the trailer where they faced temperatures in excess of 110 degrees for several hours.
U.S. Border Patrol agents found two deceased illegal aliens on ranches in Brooks County, Texas, on Thursday. A Justice of the Peace pronounced them dead after agents found them in the sand located about 80 miles north of the Texas border with Mexico. Officials transported the bodies to the Webb County Coroner’s Office.
Police in the Rio Grande Valley rescued 17 illegal aliens whom human smugglers locked in a trailer for hours. The illegal aliens came to the U.S. from Romania, Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico.
Border Patrol agents in the Laredo Sector arrested a previously deported sex offender after he attempted to illegally re-enter the U.S.
In his weekly Angelus address, Pope Francis pulled no punches in condemning human trafficking, calling the practice a “horrific plague” and a form of “modern slavery.”
Some of the survivors from the deadly human smuggling incident discovered in San Antonio on Sunday said they will testify if they get visas to stay in the United States, a lawyer disclosed on Tuesday.
An illegal immigrant advocacy group attacked the San Antonio Police Department for calling Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after they discovered a trailer full of dead and critically endangered illegal aliens early Sunday. The organization’s leader says the smuggling victims were further traumatized by the presence of ICE. She also blamed the deaths on the Trump Administration’s immigration policies.
The Florida truck driver suspected in the deaths of 10 illegal aliens in the back of his trailer used for human smuggling could face the death penalty, if convicted.
Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick put the blame for the deaths of 10 illegal aliens packed in the back of an 18-wheeler on sanctuary cities.
Police in San Antonio discovered eight illegal aliens in a tractor trailer parked in a Walmart parking lot early Sunday morning. Approximately 20 persons were in “extremely critical” or “very serious” condition.
U.S. Border Patrol agents in the Laredo Sector apprehended 16 illegal aliens this week. Agents rescued five migrants after cartel-connected human smugglers abandoned them in the scorching heat after they called 911 for assistance.
McALLEN, Texas — Two Mexican cartel smugglers and their Texan-born leader were sentenced for their roles in the kidnapping of an 8-year-old girl who they threatened to sever her fingers if her parents did not pay a ransom.
U.S. Border Patrol agents rescued a woman left hanging from a border fence in southern Arizona by human smugglers on Saturday.
HOUSTON, Texas – Houston police officers rescued a dozen illegal aliens, including an underage girl, from what was nearly a certain death situation. The smugglers locked the 12 individuals in the cargo area of a truck in the afternoon Texas heat.
Border Patrol agents in the Tucson Sector finished a week that landed one woman in jail for human smuggling; another for hiding drugs in her groin area; and the arrest of a previously deported MS-13 member.
Border Patrol agents in the Tucson Sector teamed up with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) aircrews to apprehend two alleged drug smugglers and 12 illegal alien accomplices. The smugglers allegedly transported $600,000-worth of marijuana.
Border Patrol officials in southern Arizona renewed a partnership with Mexican immigration officials by adding a provision increasing prosecutorial efforts against human smuggling.
U.S. Border Patrol agents saved a young woman abandoned by her human smugglers when she could not keep up. Agents found her unresponsive and showing symptoms of heat stroke, a potentially life-threatening condition.
Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers discovered eight illegal aliens locked inside the cargo area of a U-Haul truck. Some were near death as outside temperatures in the area climbed to more than 100 degrees.
U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested three alleged human smugglers and 59 migrants in the Laredo Sector in south Texas. The three separate incidents occurred at two different locations. All alleged smugglers are U.S. citizens.
U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Rio Grande Valley Sector busted smugglers bringing in a ton and a half of marijuana from Mexico. The seizures came in three separate incidents on Thursday.
Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Highway Patrol troopers pulled over a U-Haul moving truck in Odessa. Inside, troopers found 16 illegal immigrants, including a one-year-old.
A previously deported illegal alien smuggler threw a softball-sized rock at a U.S. Border Patrol agent’s face.
Border Patrol agents in southern Arizona arrested three armed human smugglers in three separate incidents.
