Authorities along the Texas border with Mexico are reporting an increase in human smuggling activity in recent days.
Homeland Security Investigators, along with Border Patrol Agents in El Paso scrambled to end a kidnapping after a Guatemalan woman reported that human smugglers had forcibly separated her from her four-year-old daughter. The child was rescued by federal agents near Las Cruces, New Mexico, and reunited with her mother. No details about the motive for the kidnapping or if there were arrests have been released.
El Paso Border Patrol Sector agents from their Ysleta station raided a “stash house” – apprehending several migrants in the process.Photo byU.S. Border Patrol
Border Patrol Agents from the El Paso Sector’s Ysleta station raided a “stash house” resulting in the apprehensions of several migrants as well as the discovery of a shrine to “Santa Muerte” – considered by Mexican Cartels to be their “Patron Saint.”
Shrine to “Santa Muerte” the “Patron Saint” of Mexican Cartels found in a human smuggling “stash house” in Ysleta, Texas.Photo byUS Border Patrol