A Cuban who had been denied asylum in the United States was arrested near Benson, in the U.S. state of Arizona, for attempting to smuggle three Mexican migrants.
"A Cuban citizen, whose asylum case was concluded by an immigration judge last month, was arrested for attempting to smuggle three Mexican immigrants near Benson, Arizona," said a post from the Tucson Sector of the Border Patrol.
"Two of the three smuggled immigrants had a history of deportation from the United States," the note added, which did not provide further details.
"This arrest is an example of the constant struggle against illegal migration in the region," said Sean McGuffin, in charge of the Border Patrol of the Tucson Sector, Arizona, in statements reported by the Mexican press.
The authorities continue to investigate the case and assure that the necessary measures will be taken.
As of the closing of this note, no other details about the arrest have been released, nor has the detained Cuban been identified.
In recent months, there have been several cases of Cubans involved in human trafficking.
In July, Texas authorities arrested two Cubans residing in Florida for human smuggling near a border crossing.
In that case, it was Chris Olivarez, spokesperson for the Department of Public Safety of that state, who reported that members of that entity stopped a Chevrolet Malibu on US-277 in Kinney County, which was driven by two Cubans, identified as 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. They were trafficking two illegal immigrants from Mexico.
After being arrested, Rodríguez stated that he had a GPS location for Houston and that he had picked up the migrants in Eagle Pass.
The arrested are now accused Rodríguez and Hernández of human trafficking.
The agents referred two illegal immigrants to the United States Border Patrol. The information does not specify their nationality.
Texas authorities captured a Cuban illegal immigrant on June 20 who is accused of several crimes, including trafficking and sexual assault. Raysel Carrion-Tamayo, 34, has a criminal history 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 Glendale, Los Angeles, arrested the Cuban Emmanuel Garcia Guzman, accused of trafficking immigrants from the island to then prostitute them. According to the report, Guzman was apprehended in late 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 arrested for human trafficking. They were detained by Border Patrol (USBP) agents in the state of New Mexico after being discovered in a trafficking operation involving 23 undocumented individuals.
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