EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Federal authorities arrested two U.S.-Mexico border crossers in separate incidents in El Paso and Fort Hancock last month, cases that mark 1,709 new immigration and immigration-related prosecutions filed during the six-week federal government shutdown, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas announced Friday.
El Paso area cases
On Oct. 30, Mexican National Hugo Fabian Cazares-Garcia was arrested in El Paso after he claimed his entry documents were stolen, and he was denied entry into the U.S. through the Paso Del Norte Port of Entry.
He was previously removed from the U.S. to Mexico eight times, the most recent being on Dec. 5, 2024, following an eight-month imprisonment for his second DUI. In addition to his DUIs, Cazares-Garcia has been convicted twice for burglary, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
On Oct. 15, U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested Gerardo Francisco Hernandez-Acosta, a U.S. citizen, after he was allegedly observed picking up four undocumented migrants in Fort Hancock. The criminal complaint alleged that Hernandez-Acosta expected to be paid $100 per migrant to transport them from the pickup location to the Greyhound bus station in El Paso…