Human Smuggling - Page 47

A human smuggler recently caught trying to bring a group of illegal aliens from Mexico has been arrested 42 other times in the past six years. One of those times he claimed to have been an unaccompanied minor immigrant to avoid going to jail.

The European Union’s police agency — Europol — yesterday said over 10,000 child migrants have gone missing after registering with state authorities, and fears gangs may be exploiting many for sex work and slavery. According to a Europol spokesman the vulnerable child migrants have

MCALLEN, Texas — An officer with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is facing federal bribery and computer misuse charges following his Thursday morning arrest.

McAllen, Texas — More than 200 illegal aliens have been stuffed in car trunks, sealed into tractor trailers by human smugglers, or placed in danger through other tactics this fiscal year as they attempt to get around inspection checkpoints.The period of time is from October 1, 2015 through today.

A citizen of Somalia has been arrested for helping smuggle human beings across the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona. The Somali was operating from the U.S. side of the border. According to a criminal complaint filed in federal court, Omar Haji Mohamed, a Somali national, was stopped at a border checkpoint in Why, Arizona, near the Tohono O’odham Nation. He had two passengers in his vehicle, Gilberto Alcantar and Alma Delia Reyes-Castillo—both illegal immigrants from Mexico.

One person has died and at least 12 other were injured during a high speed chase that ended in a rollover as human smugglers tried to evade authorities near the Texas/Mexico border.

Smuggling human beings has become a more profitable commodity than smuggling drugs. Just one person can command a profit of up to $100,000 for human smugglers, according to one criminologist in the Caribbean. That “premium package” could get the migrant a new identity, foreign passport, legitimate documents, and a plane ticket to the US.

When most Americans think of large numbers of Cuban migrants leaving the island nation, they picture rafts and boats headed towards the Florida Keys. However, this new exodus finds hundreds of Cubans heading to Central America and joining those following the same migration routes heading towards the U.S.-Mexico border.

Twenty-eight illegal aliens were found hiding in a horse trailer during a routine traffic stop just over 300 miles from the Mexican border with Texas. The traffic stop occurred Monday evening along a major trafficking corridor, U.S. 59, about one hour southwest of Houston.

SAN DIEGO — Fifteen people were captured on Sunday night after six illegally entered the United States of America on a sailboat and moored the vessel at San Diego’s Harbor Island.

Human smugglers stuffed 33 illegal aliens inside a refrigerated tractor trailer in an effort to bypass U.S. Border Patrol Agents. The arrest took place on Friday at the Border Patrol checkpoint in Falfurrias, which is about 80 miles north of the Texas border.

Crossing our southwest border from Mexico into the US is no easy task. It is also all to often a deadly proposition; if your coyote (human smuggler) doesn’t kill you or leave you for dead, the brutal desert environment will. As the number of illegal immigrant bodies discovered in Texas has grown, so has the concern of civic groups who want to help prevent these deaths.

A police body cam attached to a Frio County deputy sheriff captured the moment when nearly forty illegal immigrants were spared from a horrible death in the back of a Texas trailer. The illegal immigrants had been loaded into the back end of a trailer with no ventilation in the heat of the Texas summer so that they could be smuggled through the U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint.

FALFURRIAS, Texas — Agents with the U.S. Border Patrol found an illegal immigrant stuffed inside a suitcase at an immigration checkpoint 80 miles north from the Texas border. As part of the case, agents also arrested two other illegal immigrants and three suspected human smugglers that were traveling in the same vehicle.

A self-confessed human smuggler told authorities that in the past they have arrested him but released him after he gave a false name and claimed to be underage.

MCALLEN, Texas — A previously deported criminal alien with a conviction for human smuggling has been arrested in Texas with firearms. A traffic stop by Texas State Troopers near Rio Grande City resulted in agents with Homeland Security Investigations arresting and charging 34-year-old Jose Romero Garcia with being an illegal alien in possession of firearms, court records obtained by Breitbart Texas revealed.

REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — Mexican authorities rescued 44 would-be illegal immigrants who cartel members were holding against their will at a stash house near the Texas border. The raid on the cartel stash house took place on Wednesday in the Delicias neighborhood in this border city, information provided to Breitbart Texas by the local Mexican authorities revealed.

REYNOSA, Tamaulipas – Authorities in this border city arrested a woman who had been using fake documents to move a group of illegal aliens by airplane to this border city. The recent arrest took place at the Reynosa International Airport when an airplane flying in from Mexico City arrived with the female human smuggler along with five illegal aliens, one of which was a child, information provided to Breitbart Texas by Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office revealed.

MCALLEN, Texas – A convicted Mexican drug cartel kidnapper and suspected assassin will spend 40 years in prison for carrying out a kidnapping in this border city under orders from his bosses in Mexico.

At least six illegal immigrants from Honduras and Guatemala have been killed, multiple others injured, and two arrested following a high-speed chase that ended with a crash in the rural town of Edna just northwest of Victoria, Texas.

The hunt for the perpetrators of the Erawan Shrine bombing in Bangkok continues, and the long-rumored Uighur connection seems to be firming up.

Police from the Houston Police Department (HPD) raided a human smuggling stash house on Thursday evening. Illegal aliens were allegedly being held for ransom in the house. The raid landed three people in jail and fourteen illegal immigrants in an immigration detention facility.

Authorities in this border city arrested a Texas man and his Mexican wife in connection with their alleged human smuggling team activities. The woman is also suspected of running a drug distribution point in this border city.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson is touting the recent multinational human smuggling bust as an example of the efforts the Obama administration is making to stem the flood of illegal immigration from Central America and Mexico.

The law enforcement operation resulted in 17 arrests in El Salvador, seven in Guatemala and 12 in Mexico. Additionally officials discovered 39 illegal immigrants — including 10 unaccompanied minors — and seized 20 properties in Guatemala and 2 in Mexico worth an estimated $2 million combined. Authorities also seized a slew of items associated with smugglers, including vehicles, weapons, boats and approximately $200,000 in approximate in bulk cash and bank accounts.

Four U.S. Army soldiers previously stationed at Fort Hood have been convicted for their roles in smuggling illegal immigrants past U.S. Border Patrol checkpoints north of the Texas border with Mexico.

Two illegal aliens from Mexico joined forces with human smugglers to kidnap and torture unsuspecting illegal immigrants being held at a stash house. Instead of charging the group with hostage taking or kidnapping charges, prosecutors charged them with human smuggling.

Federal agents arrested a Texas truck driver headed to pick up a load of watermelons after they found 20 illegal immigrants hiding in the trailer.

U.S. Border Patrol agents rescued an illegal immigrant from Honduras who had been left to die in the brush by a human smuggler. The woman suffered from serious dehydration.

An 11-year-old Salvadoran child who was part of a very large group of women and children that had just crossed the Rio Grande into Texas died from heat related complications. The smuggling action attempt took place in 100+ degree heat Thursday evening right under the Anzalduas International Bridge when more than 50 immigrants were caught by U.S. Border Patrol Agents.

In the most open area of the Texas border, human smugglers are running wild in their efforts to circumvent U.S. Border Patrol Agents. Earlier this week, border patrol agents arrested 10 suspected human smugglers in connection with various conspiracies to smuggle more than 75 illegal aliens in total.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Western Texas announced the 23 arrests and two additional arrests for federal drug charges this week. Authorities say the illegal immigrant smuggling ring operates in Eagle Pass, Crystal City, Carrizo Springs, Uvalde, San Antonio, Laredo, Dallas and other areas of Texas.

An officer with U.S. Customs and Border Protection faces federal charges for allegedly helping a previously convicted felon and other illegal immigrants enter the country through his post at one of the international bridges in El Paso.

A suspected human smuggler faces charges in Mexico in connection to transporting a Ukrainian man and six other illegal immigrants toward the border.

Six Mexican nationals confessed to federal agents of smuggling marijuana bundles in order to pay off their river crossing fees to enter the U.S. illegally.

Two churches in a rural community near the Texas border were intentionally set on fire almost simultaneously. Investigators of the crime are puzzled about the motive for the fires.