U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Falfurrias Checkpoint chased down a grain hauler and discovered 14 migrants inside. The driver refused to submit to a secondary inspection and attempted to evade the agents.
Hundreds of Central American nationals riding “The Train of Death” in Mexico are traveling to the U.S. border and plan to arrive in Tijuana on Sunday. These self-styled asylum-seekers plan to protest that illegal immigrants are being turned away at the border. The border crossing is scheduled for 2:30 PDT on Sunday afternoon.
A federal judge sentenced three men in Laredo to lengthy prison sentences for kidnapping and extorting eight illegal aliens they smuggled into the U.S. Prosecutors accused the men of assaulting the Mexican nationals while holding them captive and then attempting to coerce additional smuggling fees from the families of their human cargo.
Two foreign nationals have pleaded guilty after smuggling a teenage girl across the U.S.-Mexico Border to Houston, Texas.
A Pakistani national pleaded guilty in a District of Columbia federal court to a charge of smuggling illegal aliens from Pakistan and other countries into the U.S.
The driver of a pickup truck suspected of human smuggling escaped arrest after leading Border Patrol agents and local police on a chase. The driver rammed a police car during the pursuit.
HOUSTON, Texas — Governor Greg Abbott announced the expansion of the Texas Anti-Gang Task Force (TAG) and the creation of a technical operations center in response to a sharp increase in rape and murder in the Houston area by violent gangs.
McALLEN, Texas — A Texas-based human smuggler working for a Mexican cartel threatened to sever the fingers and ears of an 8-year-old girl to extort her parents. The smuggler is currently on the run; he was convicted in absentia.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers arrested a human smuggler in southern California for smuggling four Chinese nationals in the trunk of his car.
Border Patrol agents assigned to the El Centro Sector found a four-year-old girl abandoned by human smugglers in the desert mountains. Agents found her unharmed.
President Donald Trump’s tougher border security and immigration enforcement plans have driven up human smuggling fees being charged by cartel-connected coyotes.
REFUGIO, Texas — A local restaurateur has been charged with human smuggling after allegedly using his business to hide illegal aliens and providing them with firearms.
A human smuggling suspect crashed his vehicle while attempting to flee Border Patrol agents in southern California. The crash caused the driver to receive severe head trauma, requiring airlift transportation to an area hospital.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — Two agents from a special police unit known as Fuerza Coahuila have been arrested for the alleged kidnapping and extortion of a family of Central American migrants who were trying to get to Texas.
GRANJENO, Texas — Families and unaccompanied children from Central American countries continue to turn themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents expecting to be released. The most recent statistics show that the numbers continue to spike in an upward trend.
Four people from Ghana living in Italy have been arrested for smuggling around 200 migrants across the Italy-Switzerland border.
A convicted human smuggler will be spending 20-years in prison for having kidnapped a group of illegal immigrants for ransom, and for raping at least one woman that he had in his house.
Eleven illegal aliens were found in a stash house in Eagle Pass and have been arrested. Border Patrol officials say there is evidence they had recently crossed the Rio Grande River.
Mexico’s top diplomats traveled to Washington, D.C. to meet with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and DHS Secretary John Kelly.
One of the most wanted alleged sex traffickers has been extradited from Mexico to the United States where he will face charges for human trafficking and smuggling.
Two immigrants from India living in New Jersey pleaded guilty in federal court to smuggling foreign nationals into the United States through commercial airlines.
Border Patrol agents from the Yuma and El Centro Sectors teamed up to arrest a human smuggler. The suspect fled and eventually crashed–rolling the vehicle and injuring his passengers.
Texas House leadership wasted no time in calling on the federal government to reimburse the State for the costs–to the tune of $2.8 billion–incurred as a result of the Obama Administration’s failure or refusal to secure the Texas-Mexico Border.
An arrest by the FBI Border Corruption Task Force has led to a married couple pleading guilty to smuggling illegal immigrants. The wife admitted to bribing a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) official with cash and sex to facilitate the trafficking. The CBP officer has also been arrested.
As the year end closed out in one Texas county, a total of sixty-one bodies of human smuggling victims had been recovered in what has become known as the Brooks County killing fields.
More than 45 per cent of young Tunisians want to migrate illegally to Europe according to a new study, and an estimated 35,000 have already done so in the last few years.
Human smugglers in south Texas again revealed their callous disregard for human life when they abandoned 11 illegal immigrants, including small children, in the middle of the Rio Grande River.
U.S. Border Patrol agents rescued a group of 15 illegal aliens and three Americans who had been abandoned by their human smugglers in the New Mexican desert.
A woman believed to have been smuggling three children who had entered the country illegally has been arrested of running through an immigration checkpoint and leading authorities on a high speed chase.
Border Patrol agents in southern California recovered 17 illegal aliens and arrested two others after the human smugglers crashed their pickup truck.
Border Patrol agents in southern California stopped three vehicles carrying “human contraband.”
A truck driver was shocked to discover three illegal immigrant stowaways on the roof of his 18 wheeler Friday night in south Texas. “It’s like, How many more’s coming out? It was like a clown box,” he said.
Border Patrol officials are expanding a successful human smuggler “most wanted” program to the Del Rio Sector in Texas. The program, called “Se Busca Información,” has yielded successful results in other sectors where it has been implemented.
McALLEN, Texas — A cartel-connected Texas man is accused of kidnapping a 17-year-old female his criminal organization had been hired to smuggle into the country. The man is believed to have raped multiple smuggled women.
MONTERREY, Nuevo León — The plan of a Honduran family to obtain birthright citizenship in Texas was cut short by the early arrival of the infant in this border state.
Two U.S. citizens and six illegal aliens are in jail after Border Patrol agents in southern Arizona stopped two separate human smuggling attempts.
Border Patrol agents in southern California rescued an Unaccompanied Alien Child (UAC) who was reportedly lost in the desert after crossing the border from Mexico.
McALLEN, Texas — Three human smugglers were convicted for their roles in a failed operation that resulted in a illegal immigrant falling from a bridge to her death.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Authorities in multiple counties north of the Texas border have been engaged in dangerous, high-speed chases with SUVs loaded with illegal immigrants as they try to get around U.S. Border Patrol checkpoints.
The ongoing flood of illegal immigrants from Central American countries continues to escalate despite the claims of the current administration that the border is secure.
