Human Smuggling - Page 45

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — Human smugglers connected to the Los Zetas cartel kidnapped a group of illegal immigrants trying to make their way to the Texas border.

La llegada de ilegales que intentan desesperadamente cruzar a Estados Unidos antes de la llegada de Presidente Electo Donald Trump a la Casa Blanca continua reportándose en las carreteras mexicanas cerca de la frontera con Texas utilizando autobuses o camionetas manejadas por traficantes ligados a los carteles de la droga.

The arrival of illegal immigrants trying to desperately cross into the U.S. before the arrival of President Elect Donald J. Trump to the White House continues to take place along Mexican highways near the border with Texas where cartel linked smugglers use buses and trucks to move their cargo.

The new orders by the Obama Administration to release Haitians caught at the border will only exacerbate the current situation since Mexican cartels are now coaching illegal aliens on how to game the U.S. immigration system, Border Patrol agents said.

Border Patrol agents assigned to the Rio Grande Valley Sector assisted local law enforcement with the rescue of 20 illegal immigrants who were locked inside a cargo truck.

EDINBURG, Texas — Authorities have stopped a truck full of illegal immigrants that were being driven north as part of a failed human smuggling attempt.

Border Patrol agents assigned to the Falfurrias Checkpoint discovered 16 illegal immigrants packed like sardines in trunks of cars and pickup truck toolboxes.

The upcoming presidential election is having an effect on the recent spike of illegal immigrants that have been arriving to this border city requesting refugee or asylum status, the mayor of this city said.

Despite claims made by elected officials and federal authorities in Washington about a secure border, human smugglers continue to move thousands of illegal immigrants into Texas with minimal difficulties.

Two U.S. soldiers have been charged in connection with a human smuggling case. The soldiers have been accused of trying to drive illegal immigrants through U.S. Border Patrol checkpoints north of the Texas Border.

McALLEN, Texas, — An illegal alien tried to ram a police vehicle and place dozens of children at risk as he sped through various school zones in an effort to elude capture, authorities said.

SAN JUAN, Texas — Human smugglers working for Mexican drug cartels continue to operate in Texas, said one police chief who has been targeting their operations.

The remains of 54 illegal immigrants have been found in one South Texas county. The number of dead illegal immigrants found in Brooks County has increased despite a massive effort by law enforcement to find the smuggled immigrants before they are killed.

The flood of illegal immigrants crossing the border in the Rio Grande Valley are making their way northward to Texas’ poorest county – overwhelming the county’s law enforcement resources. Even with additional resources from the State of Texas and U.S. Border Patrol, the remains of at least 54 illegal immigrants who died while being smuggled around the Border Patrol checkpoint have been found in 2016.

A series of leaked images reveal how groups of illegal immigrants continue to flow over the Texas border in unprecedented numbers. The lack of physical barrier and real border security allows human smugglers and their cargo to simply wade across the shallow waters of the Rio Grande.

U.S. Border Patrol agents seized a vehicle that had been cloned by human smugglers to look like a service truck.

Human smugglers packed two groups of illegal immigrants into two separate stash houses near the Texas border with Mexico in what Border Patrol agents called “deplorable conditions.” Agents with the U.S. Border Patrol Rio Grande Valley Sector teamed up with Hidalgo County sheriff’s deputies and Alton police officers to pursue a tip received from neighbors about possible human smuggling stash houses.

HOUSTON, Texas – A Houston Police Department patrol officer busted what appears to be a human smuggling operation. Seven suspected illegal immigrants were captured following a traffic stop.

Border Patrol agents in the Tucson Sector busted human smuggler and drug trafficker at an inland border checkpoint in Arizona over a two-day period this week.

A tractor-trailer packed with illegal immigrants was discovered after a routine immigration stop by U.S. Border Patrol agents in southern California on Monday.

Agents with the U.S. Border Patrol in Puerto Rico stopped a group of illegal aliens attempting to enter the country by boat.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A Houston area taxi driver was allegedly trying to smuggle two Central American illegal aliens when local sheriff’s deputies caught up with him during a traffic stop.

U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the El Centro Station busted a human smuggling operation where 19 illegal immigrants were trapped in the trailer of a refrigerated truck.

A 9-year-old boy is fighting for his life while two other underage illegal immigrants from Central America are recuperating in a local hospital. A Mexican police officer shot them– thinking they were cartel gunmen fleeing in a vehicle. The boys were not part of a drug cartel but were part of a group of illegal immigrants trying to make their way into Texas.

U.S. Border Patrol agents from the Tucson Sector captured two previously deported sex offenders and a several human smugglers in the past week. The smugglers stashed cargo in the trunks of their cars in the Arizona heat.

FALFURRIAS, Texas — Border Patrol agents continue to find vehicles with dozens of illegal immigrants stuffed inside tractor trailers as human smugglers continue their efforts to evade federal authorities.

A woman from Morocco was caught at customs in an Austrian airport trying to smuggle in the entrails of her husband claiming that she wanted them examined for signs of poisoning.

HOUSTON, Texas — 12 suspected illegal aliens have been arrested during a raid at a stash house.

Two human smugglers were arrested by U.S. Border Patrol agents in Vermont after they were found to be smuggling a group of illegal immigrants across the Canadian border.

U.S. Border Patrol agents working in Hidalgo County, Texas, busted an illegal immigrant stash house where more than 50 foreign nationals were being held.

A Mexican national who had been living in Houston, Texas, was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in a U.S. prison for human trafficking. He was also convicted of causing the death of at least one of the smuggled immigrants.

REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — A van with 26 illegal immigrants that was being escorted by cartel gunmen crashed killing five, sending the rest to local hospitals with serious injuries.

Border Patrol agents working in the Laredo North checkpoint discovered a cold storage trailer containing 32 illegal immigrants being smuggled northward. The incident occurred at the Border Patrol Checkpoint located on Interstate 35 between Laredo and San Antonio.

A tip from a concerned citizen led U.S. Border Patrol agents in Donna, Texas, to a stash house packed with 29 illegal aliens from throughout Central American and Mexico. One Mexican national was arrested for possible human smuggling charges.

Border Patrol agents working the Falfurrias Border Patrol checkpoint in Texas discovered a strange mixture of cargo on Thursday. Mixed in with a shipment of roosters from Mexico were eleven illegal immigrants.

U.S. Border Patrol Agents at the Eagle Pass port of entry stopped the attempted smuggling of a child and seized $1 million in hard narcotics.