(The Center Square) – Criminal foreign nationals continue to be arrested and prosecuted in the Houston area, including this week for violent crimes committed against Border Patrol agents and illegal border crossers.
In one case, two Mexican nationals were arrested and taken into custody after an escape that involved the strangling a Border Patrol agent. In another, a Houston man was arrested for his role in a human smuggling operation in which 55 people were crammed inside a box truck.
On Wednesday, two Mexican nationals, Juan Carmen Padron Mendez, 29, and Juan Carlos Padron Barron, 23, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Richard Bennett in a case involving the strangling of a Border Patrol agent…