Thread: Two DACA recipients arrested on suspicion of human smuggling

Two DACA recipients arrested on suspicion of human smuggling

By Lyndsay Winkley Contact Reporter

A man who was in the United States under the Deferred Action of Childhood Arrivals program, and another man whose DACA protections had expired, were arrested on suspicion of human smuggling in two separate incidents last week, federal officials said Monday.

The DACA program gave unauthorized immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children two-year renewable permits protecting them from deportation and allowing them to work.

In September, President Donald Trump announced the program would end in March 2018.

The first instance happened on Wednesday near Torrey Pines State Beach.

Border agents were sent to the area after a resident spotted what appeared to be a smuggling incident, federal officials said. Further investigation led agents to a vehicle suspected of being involved, which they pulled over on Interstate 5 near Dairy Mart Road about 12:10 p.m.

Three men were inside: the driver, a 20-year-old DACA recipient whose status had expired, and two Mexican nationals, ages 21 and 22, suspected of being in the country illegally.

Federal officials said the driver and his cousin, the 22-year-old passenger, told agents they had been involved in human smuggling in the area. The driver is currently in federal custody.

The second incident happened on Thursday about 8 a.m. Border Patrol agents in East County had just arrested two people on suspicion of being in the country illegally when they spotted two suspicious vehicles on Buckman Springs Road in Campo.

The agents followed one of the vehicles — a blue Honda sedan — and conducted an immigration inspection at a nearby checkpoint.
The driver — a 22-year-old Mexican national who lived in Riverside County as a DACA recipient — ultimately told agents that he and another driver were scouting the area to aid a group of smugglers, federal officials said.

The agents also learned the man had committed other acts of human smuggling, according to federal officials. The suspect, who was not identified, is in Department of Homeland Security custody awaiting removal proceedings. Agents later arrested another man, a 25-year-old United States citizen, who was also suspected in the smuggling scheme.

Two DACA recipients arrested on suspicion of human smuggling

DACA "children" were criminals they day they stepped foot on our soil.

Now these DACA "children" continuing to commit crimes as adults because they were not immediately deported and got away with it.

Keep rewarding these DACA "children" and illegal aliens with a path to stay...just imagine the lawlessness and destruction they will visit on our country and our citizens 1 year from now, 5 years from now, 20 years from now!

DO NOT REWARD...DEPORT WITHIN 24 HOURS...NO PATH TO STAY

Illegal aliens are gypsies, gypsies exploit their own kids to commit crimes for them. Everyone knows this except the idiots on our courts and in our Congress. Trump needs to stop this nonsense and walk away. It's all a con job by con artists by low life individuals who never met a child they wouldn't abuse, a country they wouldn't abandon or a target they wouldn't rob.

For two caught ,how many get away.