Texas Border Business
EDINBURG, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents disrupted four smuggling events within twenty-four hours.
Yesterday, Rio Grande Valley Sector (RGV) agents received information of a possible stash house located in Edinburg, Texas. As agents arrived, they observed a vehicle departing the residence. RGV agents conducted a traffic stop on the vehicle and questioned the driver who admitted to alien smuggling. Agents arrested the driver and one illegal alien in the vehicle. Agents returned to the original location and encountered an additional five illegal aliens at the residence. The smuggled aliens were from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Mexico.
Later that afternoon, RGV agents with assistance from the McAllen Police Department (MPD) encountered a similar situation. Agents apprehended four subjects in a vehicle that left a suspected stash house. The illegal aliens were citizens of Mexico, illegally present in the United States.
Today, RGV agents received information of possible illegal aliens being harbored in a hotel located in McAllen, Texas. Agents again requested the assistance of MPD in the investigation. Authorities arrived to the location and discovered 60 illegal aliens in eight rooms. The subjects were identified as nationals from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. Agents discovered nine unaccompanied aliens within the group.
Additionally, RGV agents disrupted another failed smuggling attempt near San Manuel, Texas.
All subjects are being processed accordingly.
Even with the spread of the COVID-19 virus, human smugglers continue to try these brazen attempts with zero regard for the lives they endanger nor to the health of the citizens of our great nation. The U.S. Border Patrol agents of the Rio Grande Valley Sector will continue to safeguard the nation and community against these criminal elements.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged with the management, control and protection of our nation’s borders at and between the official ports of entry. CBP is charged with keeping terrorists and terrorist weapons out of the country while enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws.
