Agents from the U. S. Border Patrol and ICE discovered 48 undocumented immigrants in a crowded hideout over the weekend in Chaparral, New Mexico, he said Wednesday.
Chaparral’s hideout was discovered after border patrol officers arrested seven undocumented immigrants in what has been described as a smuggling assignment near El Paso International Airport, authorities said.
An alleged smuggler and his wife were arrested along with migrants from Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico, the border patrol said.
U. S. Immigration and Customs deportation officials are in the process of deportation. But it’s not the first time And ICE’s national security investigative officers also took the arrest.
A total of 57 more people were arrested. The names and how to deal with the house were not disclosed.
Chaparral is north of El Paso, across the border from the state of New Mexico.
The discovery of Chaparral’s hideout followed a raid in which 32 migrants were discovered in an apartment in the valley of the descent last month.
The Lower Valley case also related to a migrant trafficking program near the airport, but no details of the program were revealed.
The case is at least the third raid after Border Patrol agents discovered 17 migrants at an East Side house on July 31.
“This incident demonstrates continued exploitation through transnational criminal organizations that continually use for-profit humans, regardless of the inherent risks, adding the possibility of COVID-19 spread to the ongoing pandemic,” Gloria I said. Chavez, head of the border patrol in the El Paso area, a statement.
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