HOUSTON, Texas–A Houston police officer and his wife were sentenced to spend 15 months in a federal prison following their conviction on charges of transporting illegal aliens. The couple will also face supervised release and a fine of $1,000.
Human smugglers from the Gulf Cartel have been using tracking devices on their victims in Texas as part of their ongoing criminal activities. Some of the illegal immigrants being smuggled may have been carrying firearms.
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — A leaked video taken by citizen journalists revealed the way cartel gunmen board passenger buses in order control the flow of illegal immigrants to the Texas border.
MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon — A human smuggler who had been using a cloned federal vehicle to move 17 illegal immigrants has been caught as he made his way to the Texas border. He has since been released.
SAN JUAN, Texas — A concerned citizen helped lead Border Patrol agents and local police to a stash house in this border city where 34 illegal immigrants were being held.
EDINBURG, Texas — Texas border authorities are issuing a warning about the extreme temperatures that have been linked to the death of five illegal immigrants in nine days.
The body of a 2-year-old little girl was found in a duffel bag being carried into Mexico by a California couple. Officials believe the couple was attempting to hide a homicide.
A Salvadoran woman and her wounded 4-year-old daughter were rescued in south Texas shortly after midnight Tuesday. The child had been shot in Mexico four days earlier during a train robbery by smugglers.
A Mexican woman was arrested by U.S. Border Patrol agents after entering the United States illegally from Canada. A Canadian citizen was also arrested for allegedly helping smuggle the woman across the border.
Federal officers stopped a human smuggling attempt after discovering a Chinese man being brought into the U.S. inside a pickup truck gas tank.
Mexican authorities detained 104 illegal immigrants, including women and children, who had been stuffed in a tractor trailer to get them past a military checkpoint.
MCALLEN, Texas — Authorities on both sides of the border continue to see an increase in the number of illegal immigrants and unaccompanied minors trying to make their way into Texas.
The National Border Patrol Council criticized presumed Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton for giving a DNC speaking slot to an illegal immigrant after she took pride in violating federal immigration laws.
Three Mexican children were discovered by U.S. Border Patrol agents in an attempt to smuggle them into the United States using falsified birth certificates.
Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector raided a human smuggling stash house near the Texas border with Mexico and captured 28 illegal aliens.
U.S. Border Patrol officials in southern California reported successful results from a new aggressive enforcement campaign targeting East County. The first four months of Campaign Eastern Front (CEF) resulted in the arrests of human smugglers and a large number of illegal aliens, along with the seizure of drug shipments.
U.S. Border Patrol agents from the Rio Grande Valley Sector raided a human smuggling stash house in Edinburg, Texas and captured 35 illegal immigrants.
MCALLEN, Texas — Mexican cartels’ smugglers continue to cause car crashes in various cities along the Texas border in their failed attempts to elude authorities. The smugglers are driving vehicles filled with drugs, or stuffed full of illegal immigrants.
More dead bodies of illegal immigrants are being found in Brooks County, Texas, as the summer heat begins to kick-in. This comes despite a 47 percent increase in the number of rescues successfully carried out by Border Patrol agents in the area.
More U.S. Army soldiers have been arrested for allegedly using their uniforms and military status during human smuggling efforts. The soldiers have reportedly been corrupted by Mexican human smuggling organizations or drug cartels.
The United Nations agency tasked with defending the free press has joined other human rights groups in condemning the murder of a journalist in Texas.
EDINBURG, Texas — Border Patrol officials are looking to expose the cruel human smugglers believed to behind many of the abuses that illegal immigrants go through. They are making it personal by posting their photos. A new effort kicked off
Illegal immigrants from Central American countries continue to arrive to the Mexican border city of Reynosa. Their hope is to be smuggled illegally into the U.S. by the leading criminal organization in the region known as the Gulf Cartel.
Officers with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Border Patrol agents stopped the smuggling of drugs and humans in the Arizona desert over the weekend.
Six illegal aliens from Central America turned themselves in to authorities after they were unable to find anyone to cross them into Texas. The group gave up on their quest after their resources ran out and flagged down the nearest Mexican cop in the border city of Reynosa.
One of the top lawyers in Obama’s Department of Justice told a federal court that the President’s policy on unaccompanied minors and incomplete family units causes the kidnapping of children.
Border Patrol agents assigned to the Falfurrias Station saved the life of one illegal alien who was abandoned by his human smugglers and left to die. Three others were not as lucky after succumbing to the harsh conditions in the ranch fields located about 80 miles north of the Texas-Mexico border.
The importance of political leaders traveling to the border to take the “Breitbart Border Tour,” was the topic Breitbart Texas Managing Director Brandon Darby discussed when joining Stephen K. Bannon and Alex Marlow on Breitbart News Daily. He said the unannounced, no
Border Patrol agents found 37 illegal aliens, including three juveniles from Mexico and Honduras, in a “Goddess of Death” shrine adorned stash house in Edinburg, Texas, on Monday.
The case of one suspected human smuggler who is also an illegal alien, helps provide a deeper understanding of the true figure of individuals being successfully smuggled into the country. The man claimed that in the past six months he has successfully housed more than 300 illegal aliens in his apartment.
Two former U.S. Army soldiers based out of Fort Hood have been sent to prison for their role in a human smuggling operation where they had been using their uniform to get around immigration checkpoints.
A 2-year investigation has resulted in the indictments of 29 people and 86 criminal charges relating to a cartel-connected human smuggling operation in South Texas.
A 13-year-old girl is fighting to survive after a cartel human smuggler abandoned her and her 15-year-old sister in the brush area. The teens were left to die and spent five days in the dangerous brush without water.
Mexican cartel human smugglers abandoned a two-year-old girl on the Texas side of the Rio Grande and returned to Mexico. The cartel smugglers had crossed the child on a raft along with a group of 14 other illegal immigrants near the area known as Rincon Village, information release to Breitbart Texas by U.S. Border Patrol revealed.
An illegal alien convicted of crossing into Texas to rob illegal aliens and then cross back into Mexico will now spend five years in prison.
Muchas de las personas más caritativas en EE.UU. piensan que están ayudando a los pobres de América Latina al dejar abierta nuestra frontera del suroeste entre los puertos de entrada, pero no lo hacen. Muchas de las organizaciones criminales transnacionales (cárteles) que operan en Centroamérica y México se estima obtienen un tercio o más de sus ganancias de la inmigración ilegal. En concreto, dos grupos abajo de Texas, los cárteles del Golfo y Los Zetas, se alimentan en gran medida del tráfico y la trata de seres humanos.
A woman from Guatemala has been sentenced to three years in prison for her role in a smuggling operation that recruited illegal immigrants in India and smuggled them through Central America into the United States.
Many of the most caring people in the U.S. think they are helping the poor from Latin America by leaving our Southwest border unsecured between ports-of-entry, but they are not. Several of the transnational criminal organizations (cartels) operating in Central America and Mexico make an estimated one-third or more of their profits from illegal immigration. Specifically, two groups below Texas, the Gulf and Los Zetas cartels, are largely fueled by the trafficking and smuggling of human beings.
Mexican authorities arrested 112 illegal aliens who were in Mexico and headed to Texas in less than one week.
Border patrol agents in Tucson, Arizona, arrested more human smugglers attempting to traffic illegal migrants in the trunks of vehicles. There have been two such incidents in the last several days. On April 16, a driver attempted to avoid detection at
