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Texas: Human Smuggling is out of Control

<p>Considering the recent violence associated with sanctuary cities and illegal immigrants&comma; securing&nbsp&semi;America&&num;8217&semi;s borders looks like it will one of the most important and difficult challenges facing the next US President&period; The border is anything but secure in Texas&comma; where the city of Laredo is all but overrun with illegal aliens&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The most open area of the US&sol;Mexico border is near the city of Laredo&comma; Texas where human smugglers have grown far too bold in their efforts to cart family&comma; friends&comma; and strangers into the country&period; There is no wall between Laredo and Texas&period; Surveillance is lax&comma; leaving many areas wide open for human smugglers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Just this week&comma; Border Patrol agents caught and arrested 10 individuals suspected of human smuggling&period; All 10 have been formally charged in Laredo&rsquo&semi;s federal court&period; Their efforts are estimated to have brought in more than 75 illegal aliens&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The dramatic case of Raymond Segura shows that many human smugglers don&rsquo&semi;t take the US Borer Patron seriously&period; Segura was arrested for the third time on July 25th along with two companions just north of Laredo&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A member of the &ldquo&semi;Hermanos Pistoleros Latinos&rdquo&semi; &lpar;a prison gang&rpar;&comma; he boasted that the charges &ldquo&semi;will not stick&rdquo&semi; because he has connections with those in jail&period; He assured officials that the two illegal immigrants captured in his company would not say anything against him because he is &ldquo&semi;powerful&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Other smugglers are a little more inventive&colon; Raul Hernandez was caught with 17 illegal passengers hiding amongst the bales of hay in the flatbed trailer he was pulling with his pickup truck&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Patrick Stevenson was arrested when found to be towing a trailer with 20 illegal aliens&period; He told officials that he had agreed to sneak the immigrants in for &dollar;5&comma;000&period; &nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This week&comma; Jose Luis Cayetano from Honduras and five companions were arrested as they emerged from the water&comma; having just swum across the Rio Grande&period; According to Texas fisherman&comma; it is not uncommon to see illegal aliens making their way across the river in the middle of the day&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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