“We see this happen every day,” a Sunland Park police official told Border Report after watching the video.
On Wednesday, a Border Report/KTSM team witnessed three individuals in all-black clothing run to a parked SUV at the Sunland Park’s Motor Vehicle Department, which sped off as soon as the passengers got in – all of them in the back seat. “Especially in an apartment, there’s no ability to social distance.”īorder towns like Sunland Park for the past year have dedicated local resources to tend to migrants injured after falling from the border wall and respond to citizens’ complaints of trespassing and unknown vehicles stopping in front of their homes to pick up newly arrived migrants for transport to a safe house. “These are usually overcrowded, unsanitary facilities with no soap or running water in some cases, backed up or not working toilets,” Freeland said. The last few locales raided by the Border Patrol include a home in Chaparral, N.M., and an apartment in Northeast El Paso, both housing more than 50 migrants. That’s a huge increase from the fiscal year 2020, when raids on 66 stash houses yielded 487 apprehensions.Ī stash house can be a rental home, an apartment, a hotel room, a barn or even a tool shed. The agency in the past nine months has come across 210 migrant and drug stash houses in the El Paso area and taken into custody 2,000 foreign nationals being kept there. Freeland, a spokesman for the Border Patrol. This is a top priority for our chief and our sector,” said Joel A.
“They’re working to basically crack down, dismantle, disrupt these transnational criminal organizations’ operations of moving people via stash houses. The Integrated Targeting Team (ITT) will combine intelligence gathering from Homeland Security Investigation, the Border Patrol, and police departments such as the one in Sunland Park, a city that’s become the epicenter for illegal immigration in the region. Border Patrol is partnering with federal and local police forces to stop the proliferation of migrant “stash houses” in Far West Texas and Southern New Mexico. Migrants often pay human smuggling groups linked to drug cartels thousands of dollars to transport them across the Mexico border and keep them hidden in so-called stash houses, which are typically found closer to the border in southern US states.SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico (Border Report) – The U.S. Jose Luis Magana/AP Migrants sleeping outside Union Station in DC. Migrants gather near the Capitol after arriving by bus from Texas. The deaths, which resulted in the indictment of two men, was the worst-known fatal smuggling incident in US history. The bust comes on the heels of horrifying recent reports of migrants being subjected to dangerous conditions during their journeys to the US - including an incident in which 53 people suffocated in the back of a sweltering truck in San Antonio, Texas, last month. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers also found $95,000 and a small amount of cocaine in the homes during the bust Wednesday, according to internal documents cited by the outlet. Texas migrant busing costing Lone Star State $12M: reportĭozens of migrants were found in stash houses run by human smugglers in an upscale section of Washington, DC, immigration officials said Thursday.Ī total of 73 migrants - including 13 children - were hidden in six houses in the city’s northwest section, where the median home price is $750,000, according to NBC News. NYC’s Homeless Services czar looks badly in over his head NYC opens $6M ‘welcome center’ for flood of migrants, kids shipped here Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot blasts migrant buses from Texas as ‘racist’
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