by Jack Phillips
More than 1,600 undocumented immigrants were arrested in three days in a single Texas border sector, according to the area’s chief Border Patrol agent.
“More than 1,600 arrests in three days for agents of the Del Rio Sector!” Austin Skero, head of the Texas Del Rio Sector Border Patrol, wrote on Twitter. “These arrests include more than 25 smuggling cases, two criminal aliens and were mostly made up of single adults.”
Later, Skero added that Del Rio agents detained a convicted rapist who had previously been deported.
“Our officers arrested two more sex offenders over the weekend, one of whom was convicted of third degree rape in Kentucky,” he said in a news release Tuesday. “That is why it is vitally important that Border Patrol agents are there, at the border, identifying all those who cross our borders illegally.”
Román González-Flores, 49, a citizen of Mexico, was arrested after illegally entering the United States from Mexico. Later, authorities determined that he was convicted of the crime in 2004, was sentenced to two years in prison and was most recently deported in 2021, according to the agency.
González-Flores now faces felony charges for illegal re-entry after being deported as a convicted sex offender and could face 20 years in prison.
The agency said 56 undocumented immigrants with prior sexual assault convictions were “found” by agents since Oct. 1 of last year.
On Wednesday, in a separate incident in California, Border Patrol agents and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirmed that 13 people who died in a semi-trailer accident may have been illegally smuggled into across the border.
“We pray for the accident victims and their families during this difficult time,” said El Centro Sector Chief Patrol Officer Gregory Bovino at a news conference Wednesday. Agents, he said, believe the dead were part of a larger group of about 44 migrants who were smuggled through a hole in the fence near Calexico, a California city that lies along the border and is next to the Mexican city of Mexicali.
Bovino added that an “initial investigation into the origin of the vehicles indicates a possible link with the aforementioned breach in the border wall,” while adding that “human traffickers have shown time and again that they have little respect for life. human “.
“Those who are contemplating crossing the border illegally should stop to think about the dangers that too often end in tragedy; tragedies that our Border Patrol agents and first responders are very familiar with, ”he said at the news conference.
