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A husband and wife team from Ecuador have been sentenced to federal prison for their roles in a human smuggling operation in Texas. At least one young girl was raped in a Mexican stash house during the smuggling process.

MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — The former mayor of this Mexican border city was seen having breakfast with relatives and friends, despite being a wanted fugitive of the U.S. Department of Justice.

A company in a small California city has agreed to pay $1.5 million but will avoid prosecution for hiring 49 illegal aliens. The company rehired 13 of the illegal alien employees after the ICE audit that originally busted them.

A former seminary student was sentenced to nearly 16 years in prison in a federal court after he placed an ad on Craigslist to buy a Mexican toddler for sex. The man was lured to San Diego in a federal sting operation.

The case of one suspected human smuggler who is also an illegal alien, helps provide a deeper understanding of the true figure of individuals being successfully smuggled into the country. The man claimed that in the past six months he has successfully housed more than 300 illegal aliens in his apartment.

Federal, state and local law enforcement officials kicked off a new joint task force in the Rio Grande Valley aimed at fighting the rising threat against children from sexual predators. Arrests of sex offenders, including previously deported illegal alien sex offenders has been on the increase across this border region.

A Santa Claus performer in Texas claiming to have a child pornography addiction is facing federal charges in connection with the downloading of explicit photos and videos–with some of the children depicted being as young as four-years-old.

Mexican drug cartels built a half mile long tunnel that they used to smuggle tons of marijuana from the Mexican border city of Tijuana into San Diego. During the raid, U.S. federal agents seized 2 tons of marijuana, while in Mexico authorities seized 10 tons of marijuana as well for a total of 12 tons that were about to hit American streets.

A police body cam attached to a Frio County deputy sheriff captured the moment when nearly forty illegal immigrants were spared from a horrible death in the back of a Texas trailer. The illegal immigrants had been loaded into the back end of a trailer with no ventilation in the heat of the Texas summer so that they could be smuggled through the U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint.

BROWNSVILLE, Texas – Just hours after having been extradited from Mexico, the man who at one time ran one of Mexico’s most powerful cartels went before a U.S. federal Judge to face multiple drug charges.

A Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) employee has been arrested for allegedly accepting $1,000-$2,000 bribes to issue Texas driver licenses to illegal aliens who did not legally qualify for those driver licenses. She is accused of fraudulently inputting into the DPS computer system that the illegal aliens were born in the United States.

Four U.S. Army soldiers previously stationed at Fort Hood have been convicted for their roles in smuggling illegal immigrants past U.S. Border Patrol checkpoints north of the Texas border with Mexico.

Two illegal aliens from Mexico joined forces with human smugglers to kidnap and torture unsuspecting illegal immigrants being held at a stash house. Instead of charging the group with hostage taking or kidnapping charges, prosecutors charged them with human smuggling.

Federal agents along the Texas border continue to see large groups of illegal immigrants either in stash houses or coming over the river. On Monday, agents with U.S. Homeland Security Investigations along with U.S. Border Patrol and Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office raided a border stash house in the town of Edcouch. They found 32 illegal aliens, court records obtained by Breitbart Texas revealed.

Mexican drug smugglers were targeted in a sting operation near the Texas border. Federal agents arrested three men and raided a home allegedly used as a drug distribution “office” by a group smuggling drugs across the border from Mexico.

A former Texas border cop with a gambling problem plead guilty to federal human smuggling charges and claimed to have done it several times before. As previously reported by Breitbart Texas , Luis Enrique Guevara, a reserve Cameron County Deputy Constable had been driving Nissan Pathfinder near Robstown, Texas when a police officer pulled him over for speeding and caught him with human cargo. Since his arrest Guevara is no longer a law enforcement officer.

A military official from Qatar and his wife were indicted in San Antonio Wednesday, charged with two counts of engaging in forced labor.

FALFURRIAS, Texas – Hundreds of federal state and local law enforcement officials descended on this small Texas city as they quickly moved along the main strip raiding close to a dozen underground casinos.

Two leading figures with Los Zetas are set to spend their life in prison for their role in smuggling thousands of pounds of marijuana into the U.S. and for sending weapons and ammunition into Mexico.

Federal arrest warrants were issued for eleven Chinese nationals last week, targeting clients of so-called “maternity tourism” businesses who had fled back to China after being ordered to stay in the U.S. as material witnesses. None of the the owners of the three maternity tourism operations raided in early March have yet been charged for any crime, according to the Orange County Register.

A truck driver who federal agents claim was caught with 35 illegal immigrants in his truck is now facing human smuggling charges. U.S. Border Patrol agents working at a checkpoint about 80 miles north of the river arrested Muchiri Rayheed Rhodes this weekend, after they found 35 illegal immigrants hiding in his tractor trailer, court records obtained by Breitbart Texas revealed.

A recent statement released by the federal government acknowledged that street gangs in the U.S. work as hired foot soldiers for Mexican and Central American transnational criminal organizations. The revelation was made by U.S. law enforcement after a massive national raid that