Human Smuggling

Three individuals on the terrorism watchlist were apprehended at the southwest border in fiscal year 2020.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is reportedly investigating a human smuggling network.

Tucson Sector agents arrested 10,000 migrants during the past week as the border continues to be overwhelmed under the Biden administration.

According to a veteran deputy from Kinney County, Deputy Molinar, cartels are using TikTok to post "help wanted" ads for human smuggling.

Law enforcement authorities stopped a human smuggling attempt to transport a group of migrants across the Texas border in a utility truck.

Two suspected undocumented immigrants suffocated to death aboard a freight train and 10 others in need of medical care were taken by helicopter or ambulance to hospital on Friday in south Texas, police said.

Pope Francis has called out the human traffickers behind a recent shipwreck in southern Italy that resulted in the deaths of scores of migrants.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has announced his proposal to crack down on illegal immigration by increasing penalties for human smuggling, strengthening statutes for the detention of illegal aliens, requiring universal use of E-Verify, enhancing penalties for document falsification, and prohibiting the issuance of ID cards to people not lawfully in the country.

The Biden administration is proposing new rules, similar to a Trump-era policy, to reduce fraudulent asylum claims and discourage illegal immigration by presuming asylum ineligibility for migrants crossing through other nations to reach the U.S. Southern Border.

Former acting Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection Mark Morgan says all United States borders should be secured.