EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Two American siblings face migrant smuggling charges after authorities allegedly caught them picking up unauthorized migrants in an Indian reservation.
But the smuggler who brought the migrants over from Mexico on a dirt bike that crisscrossed a remote desert portion of the international boundary remains at large. He is presumed to have returned to Mexico, for now.
According to documents filed Monday in U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, border agents near the city of Why received a call from a camera operator who witnessed the dirt bike enter the United States east of the busy Lukeville-Sonoyta migrant smuggling corridor.
The off-road motorcycle sharply turned toward the Tohono O’odham Indian reservation and kept going as fast as the terrain allowed. The operator simultaneously spotted, through another camera, a blue Dodge Durango entering the village of Ali Chuk and starting to drive around.
The operator apparently lost sight of the dirt bike in the brush, but minutes later, two individuals on foot approached the blue Durango and got in. Court records show border agents tracked the vehicle until it reached State Route 86 and signaled the driver to stop.