human smuggling

A joint task force on Thursday announced 19 arrests and four indictments in connection with the border smuggling death of a Guatemalan woman in Odessa, Texas, last year.

Of the 53 people who died in an apparent human smuggling case, 22 are now being publicly identified by Bexar County officials.

A memorial to the 53 people who died from being trapped in a tractor trailer in south San Antonio is growing.

Fifty-one migrants died after being trapped in a tractor-trailer in Texas. NPR's A Martinez talks to Antonio Fernandez, CEO of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of San Antonio about the survivors.

The San Antonio City Council approved a $300,000 settlement on Thursday to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over a 2017 human smuggling incident.

A Dallas man was arrested Thursday night in East San Antonio on federal criminal charges related to his alleged smuggling of a large group of undocumented people.

Houston police say they found more than 90 people huddled together inside a southwest Houston home Friday afternoon.

Undocumented migrants trekking on foot and packed into vehicles are heading north from the southern border in greater numbers. Some are dying along the way, and Border Patrol agents are frustrated.

Deputies were able to detain about 50 of the immigrants. But officials expressed concern for those who fled into the woods as San Antonio braced for a hard freeze Thursday night.

Updated 6:35 p.m.A 36-year-old Laredo man has been charged with human smuggling after 54 immigrants were found Tuesday night in a refrigerated trailer on…