Texas authorities arrested two Cubans based in Florida for immigrant smuggling near a border crossing.
Chris Olivarez, spokesperson for the Department of Public Safety of that state, reported on his X profile that members of that entity detained a Chevrolet Malibu on US-277 in Kinney County that was being driven by two Cubans.
The police discovered that the driver, Diojany Carrillo Rodríguez from Florida, and the passenger, Dariel Ibáñez Hernández, a Cuban who has a pending hearing in the United States Court regarding his citizenship, were trafficking two illegal immigrants from Mexico," the information states.
After being arrested, Rodríguez stated that he had a GPS location for Houston and that he had picked up the migrants in Eagle Pass.
"They grabbed my hand and told me 'hey, pick me up, pick me up, we are stranded'," he explained.
The detainees are now accused Rodriguez and Hernandez of human trafficking.
The agents referred two illegal immigrants to the United States Border Patrol. The information does not specify their nationality.
Several Cubans have been detained for the same offense in the context of the migratory crisis on the Caribbean island.
Texas authorities captured a Cuban illegal immigrant on June 20th who has been accused of various crimes, including human trafficking and sexual assault. Raysel Carrion-Tamayo, 34 years old, has a criminal record that includes prior arrests for commercial sexual trafficking, aggravated sexual assault, aggravated promotion of prostitution, human trafficking, continuous sexual assault, and inadmissibility of foreigners.
It was also reported that the police in the city of Glendale, in Los Angeles, detained the Cuban Emmanuel Garcia Guzman, accused of trafficking immigrants from the island and then prostituting them. According to the report, Guzman was arrested at the end of June during an undercover operation in the Californian city, which is part of the United States' actions against human trafficking involving Cuban citizens in areas such as Houston, Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Miami.
In March, two Cubans were also arrested for immigrant trafficking. They were detained by Border Patrol agents (USBP) in the state of New Mexico, after being discovered in an operation involving 23 undocumented immigrants.
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