Texas police arrest man for human smuggling after finding house stash with 46 migrants

The Texas Department of Public Safety arrested a 66-year-old Mexican nationalist for allegedly trafficking 46 migrants who were recovered wrong a stash location past week successful Laredo, Texas. 

Manuel Gonzalez Rodriguez was already wanted by Border Patrol for an migration usurpation erstwhile he was taken into custody for allegedly operating nan stash house. 

Manuel Gonzalez Rodriguez, 66, will look national charges for smuggling of persons.  (Texas Department of Public Safety)

Texas DPS officers noticed "suspicious activity" astir 7:00 p.m. connected Feb. 22 astatine nan location successful Laredo, a metropolis connected nan U.S.-Mexico separator in South Texas. 

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Officers entered nan location and located 46 forbidden immigrants, including 32 men and 14 women from Mexico and Guatemala. 

Officers located 46 migrants from Mexico and Guatemala successful nan stash house.  (Texas Department of Public Safety)

Images released by Texas DPS show windows covered by blankets, boarded up doors, and sleepings bags connected nan crushed passim nan residence. 

Rodriguez will face national charges for smuggling of persons. 

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Texas DPS located nan stash location arsenic portion of Operation Lone Star, which was launched by Gov. Greg Abbott 2 years agone to reside nan surge of migrant encounters astatine nan confederate border. 

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The cognition led to much than 336,000 migrant apprehensions past year, arsenic good arsenic 23,000 arrests and nan seizure of much than 354 cardinal lethal doses of fentanyl.