ICE busts 117 people smuggled into Texas and New Mexico drug stash houses, feds say
The federal immigration crackdown along the U.S.-Mexico border continues.
Federal authorities raided a series of stash houses in West Texas and southern New Mexico last month in an attempt to break up a human smuggling ring, with a side of drugs and money, according to a news release from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.
ICE and border patrol officers arrested 18 suspected human smugglers and 117 individuals they say were smuggled into the U.S. from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, Brazil, El Salvador and Peru, the release states.
Two of the 18 suspected smugglers, authorities say, are U.S. citizens with long criminal histories.
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Cross-posted in the New Mexico Group.