Republican lawmakers on Tuesday called on New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to address the migrant smuggling and fentanyl trafficking crisis by deploying National Guard troops to the southern portion of the state.
Three drivers and 24 migrants are in custody after border agents tracked a caravan of SUVs and a pickup from a highway near the border to an empty RV park near Columbus, New Mexico.
A man who initially told authorities he was picking up a friend’s relatives at 2 a.m. at the base of a mountain straddling the Mexican border has pleaded guilty to migrant smuggling.
Two Mexican migrants are facing federal charges for allegedly agreeing to drive 11 other unauthorized non-citizens through a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint last week.