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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — One of six men charged in Texas over 53 migrants who died last year in a sweltering tractor-trailer has pleaded guilty for his role in the nation's deadliest human smuggling attempt from Mexico, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
A man wanted in connection with a homicide in Central Texas was arrested after attempting to fake his way through the border into El Paso on Tuesday.
“You cannot cross here. It is illegal. This is a crime. You are committing a crime. You cannot cross anywhere except a legal port of entry."
Truck traffic at the Marcelino Serna port of entry in Tornillo shot up since the federal government stopped processing commercial cargo at El Paso’s Bridge of the Americas earlier this month.
Federal authorities are holding two men and a woman in connection with 10 separate migrant smuggling events in a 16-month span in Southern Arizona.