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Authorities in Texas busted a human smuggling ring on Wednesday, arresting five people, including a suspected member of Tren de Aragua.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man whose erroneous deportation to El Salvador became a protracted battle over due process ...

The deaths laid bare the devastating human toll of organized ... resulting in at least nine arrests tied to at least 19 smuggling attempts through South Texas. SAN ANTONIO — Officials in ...

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“With these arrests, the Justice Department ... in U.S. federal court in the Western District of Texas on six counts of human smuggling that resulted in bodily injury or death.

Arrests following the 2022 deaths of 53 migrants in Texas who were left in a sweltering tractor-trailer have climbed to more than a dozen, and now stretch to Central America, following years of ...

The five members of Fugitivo had been hired for a performance, but arrived to find a vacant lot. Their bodies were found ...

While briefing news media about the arrests of three human-smuggling suspects believed to ... The brief address represented a counterbalance to what Texas Republicans had been calling a "border ...

Key cases involve human smuggling and re-entry offenses ... The Southern District of Texas (SDTX) remains one of the busiest districts in the country, overseeing 44,000 square miles and 9 ...

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Texas law enforcement made 1,400 human smuggling arrests the year before Gov. Greg Abbott launched Operation Lone Star in early 2021. By 2022, the number had exploded to 17,500. A Tribune review ...