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

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was returned to the U.S. from El Salvador after a federal grand jury indicted him on human smuggling ...

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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 Texas Tribune ...

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