Thread: TX: Stash House Nets 50 Illegals

Stash house raided; more than 50 undocumented immigrants apprehended

April 30, 2010 9:34 AM
The Brownsville Herald

BROWNSVILLE - More than 50 undocumented immigrants were discovered Thursday in a stash house on North Vermillion Street in a federal investigation into human smuggling.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are leading the investigation, agency spokeswoman Nina Pruneda said.

A search warrant that federal agents executed led to the discovery in the stash house at the 1400 block of North Vermillion Street, an officer said.

It also brought the Cameron County Sheriff’s Department, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and Brownsville Police Department to the scene when a mortar was found at the location.

"We were concerned about the mortar," Sheriff Omar Lucio said of the ordinance. BPD sent its bomb squad to the scene as backup assistance, Sgt. Juan Lopez said.

Pruneda told The Brownsville Herald that the device turned out to be just a souvenir, but that no one had taken any chances because it could have been dangerous.

Federal officers arrived at the stash house at 7:50 a.m. And, in a written statement that ICE also issued, it is noted that no one had been charged because agents were still talking to more than 50 people found in the house. The people are from Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.

U.S. Border Patrol agents also were at the scene and assisted in transporting the immigrants from the house to another location, U.S. Border Patrol spokesman Joe Treviño said.

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Process them and send the home. Hey Perry, still don't think AZ's law is "right" for Texas?

They are coming for Amnesty because there are no jobs.

Dixie