American youth are making their way to the Southern Border, where smugglers pay them to drive illegal immigrants across, according to producer Kay Rubacek. NTD spoke with her about what she learned filming the new documentary, “Gotaways: The Hidden Border Crisis.”
The Texas Department of Public Security (DPS) apprehended 19 illegal aliens after stopping suspected human smugglers near the southern border. The DPS worked with the Texas highway patrol and the U.S. Border Patrol in apprehending the illegal immigrants in Webb County on Thursday, FOX reported. Three vehicles containing 15 illegal immigrants were stopped, and four […]
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is inviting attorneys general from 12 states to the southern border for a two-day border summit. He’s renewing criticism of the Biden administration for failing to secure the border. He also accuses Tik Tok of helping human traffickers.
SAN DIEGO—Two smugglers were sentenced to federal prison on Friday for leading three sisters from Mexico into California, where they froze to death in a mountain snowstorm. Cecilio Rios-Quiñones, 38, and his brother, 23-year-old Ricardo Rios-Quiñones, received 5 1/2 years each in U.S. District Court in San Diego. They pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy […]
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released a video on Wednesday that shows two young children being dropped over the border barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border. “I’m appalled by the way these smugglers viciously dropped innocent children from a 14-foot border barrier last night,” El Paso Sector Chief Patrol Agent Gloria I. Chavez said, […]
Texas Governor Greg Abbott is releasing some horrifying numbers from the first month of Operation Lone Star, an operation he launched to combat smuggling and other crimes at the southern border. He explains how smugglers and cartels get drugs and criminals across the border by abusing young children.
MEXICO CITY—A 4-year-old Honduran boy was found traveling alone near the Rio Grande River that separates Mexico from the United States with no one to claim him, the Mexican government said on Wednesday. Mexico’s National Migration Institute (INM) said the boy was found unaccompanied among trees and thickets as he walked toward the border. He […]
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) released video from the banks of the Rio Grande on March 26, describing his experience with the current migrant crisis. The senator announced this week that he would be visiting the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday with 17 other Republican senators amid an influx of illegal border crossing, particularly by unaccompanied minors. As part […]
Before becoming president, Joe Biden pledged to create a pathway for over 11 million undocumented people to gain U.S. citizenship. Such words are reportedly being used by smugglers to entice people to cross the border illegally into the United States. Sheriff Mark Dannels, in Cochise County, Arizona, gives his ground-level take on the southwest border […]
The Coast Guard seized 26,000 pounds of cocaine worth $350 million in several operations in the eastern Pacific Ocean, including one involving a high-speed chase at sea with suspected drug smugglers.
McAllen, Texas—On the U.S.-Mexico border, illegal immigrants are paying smugglers anywhere up to $20,000 to take them across the border and onto U.S. soil. Two main groups of illegal immigrants come across the Rio Grande in Texas: those trying to run away from Border Patrol; and those actively looking for agents, to turn themselves in. […]
Congressional Republicans who toured the southern border this week were shocked to know how smugglers recycle children across the border. The Republican delegation touring the southern border included Reps. John Joyce of Pennsylvania, Pete Stauber of Minnesota, Dusty Johnson of South Dakota, Andy Biggs of Arizona, Sean Duffy Wisconsin’s 7th district, and Duncan Hunter from California’s 50th […]
