human smuggling

This week, McAllen Attorney Eric Jarvis went before U.S. District Judge Ricardo Hinojosa, who sentenced him to three years and eight months in prison on the charge of “violating the Travel Act” for sending court documents and other information through a phone messaging app to Gulf Cartel-linked smugglers in South Texas. . . . Read more about Texas Attorney Sent to Prison for Working with Mexican Cartel Smugglers

Border Patrol agents in the Tucson Sector arrested multiple armed human smugglers as they attempted to move their “cargo” into the U.S. interior this week. The agents also interdicted multiple dangerous smuggling attempts. . . . Read more about Armed Human Smugglers Arrested in Arizona near Border

A Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper and National Guard soldiers apprehended a pair of human smugglers near the border in Laredo, Texas. Video released by the State shows a pursuit ending as the smugglers bail out of the moving truck and leave migrants, including children, to fend for themselves. . . . Read more about WATCH: Texas Trooper, National Guard Arrest Smugglers After Children Left in Moving Truck

EAGLE PASS, Texas — A four-year-old Nicaraguan migrant child is believed to have drowned after his 32-year-old mother dropped him as she crossed the Rio Grande. The mother lost the little boy as she crossed the swiftly moving border river just south of Eagle Pass, Texas early Saturday morning. . . . Read more about Small Migrant Child Drowns in Texas Border River, Swept from Mother’s Arms

The Biden Administration has agreed to pay farmers and ranchers across the Texas-Mexico border for damages to their property caused by Biden’s border crisis which has seen a massive surge in illegal immigration and drug smuggling. . . . Read more about Feds Agree to Pay for Damage Caused by Illegal Aliens, Provide No Security Solution

Investigations into human smuggling stemming from illegal immigration reveal that not everyone makes it safely to the U.S.

Open border policies that incentivize foreign cartels’ estimated $100 million in weekly human smuggling operations across the southern border are illegal and inhumane, attorneys general who’ve recently sued the Biden administration argue. . . . Read more about Human Trafficking Across U.S. Borders Results In Murders, Other Atrocities

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), holding a roundtable discussion Monday in Miami on President Biden’s border crisis, said Biden’s border policies are creating serious issues, but the Trump administration’s policies had made America in a better place. . . . Read more about Ron DeSantis: Biden’s Border Crisis Means ‘More Human Trafficking, More Sex Trafficking, More Drug Trafficking’

While illegal immigration has quickly become one of the most debated political issues of our time, it can be easy to lose sight of the real human element of the border crisis.

There are the ranchers and other residents of border communities whose property and lives are at risk with the influx of illegal migrants who flood across the border in crippling numbers, herded by dangerous, criminal cartels that exploit desperate Central Americans for monetary gain. . . . Read more about DHS Sec's Meeting with Border Patrol Agents Blows Up in His Face When Agent Turns His Back: Report

In a recent interview, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo exposed Vice President Kamala Harris’ lies regarding the causes of the ongoing border crisis.

Harris traveled to Guatemala and Mexico earlier this month after blaming increased illegal immigration from those countries on climate change and anti-LGBT bias.

Pompeo noted one simple fact: Central American policies and the climate haven’t changed much since January, but American politics have. . . . Read more about Pompeo Identifies the Real Root Cause of Border Crisis After Harris Wastes Her Time in Central America

Del Rio and Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents rescued two migrants in separate human smuggling incidents in South Texas. In one, agents rescued a woman being swept away in the Rio Grande. . . . Read more about Two Migrants Rescued in Separate Smuggling Incidents near Border