This is something we didn’t face two or three years ago.” “Most of the Colombian narcotic connections are moving operations to the West Coast. Ed Miller of the Pasadena Police Department. “We’re dealing with something that is relatively new to us,” said Sgt. Stash houses recently have been raided in Pasadena, Burbank, Chatsworth, Sunland and upper-income sections of Orange County.
The smugglers are so mobile that they could lease a house in Montclair for five months, then pick up and move to another house in South Gate in a matter of hours. In their quest for suburban anonymity, many of the drug smugglers drive mid-sized sedans and dress in bargain-basement clothes, according to authorities. “They just want to blend in, not make any waves,” said Mark Tedesco, an investigator for the West Covina Police Department who was involved in the raids in which 16 people were arrested at five houses in four San Gabriel Valley cities.
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In Texas, the state’s National Guard was deployed in full force to hold off dozens of groups from attempting to enter the country illegally through the Rio Grande.Although some stash houses have been occupied by couples with a flair for opulence, most of them house small families who try to avoid attention from authorities, neighbors or other criminals, investigators say. advocates have described the situation as a crisis, with many migrants living in trash-strewn encampments along the US-Mexico border, including in California. A group of people could be seen staying in a dirty room with mattresses on the ground.
The expiration of the regulation has led to thousands more migrants arriving at the border to seek asylum in the US. Officials said during last month’s raids, one house had as many as 95 migrants in it, while another was packed with more than 50 people.īorder Patrol officials have warned these cases would only become more common after last week’s end to the restrictive pandemic-era Title 42. The Texas Department of Public Safety and Customs and Border Patrol announced last month that more than 140 immigrants were found living in similar conditions across the state. Saturday’s case is only the latest example of undocumented migrants living in squalor after crossing the border. The room was also covered in dirt and trash. Inside the home, several people could be seen inside a single room that had three mattresses tossed on the floor for them to sleep on. Photos from the arrest show rows of migrants seated along the front of the house surrounded by trash. The Border Patrol’s Santa Teresa Anti-Smuggling Unit said the dozens of migrants were living in a single house in Santa Teresa in New Mexico, fewer than 14 miles from El Paso. Six of the migrants had “prior removal orders” against them and will be prosecuted, El Paso Sector Chief Anthony Good said Saturday. US Border Patrol agents found 54 illegal migrants “living in deplorable conditions” at a stash house near El Paso, Texas, officials said over the weekend. Lack of federal funding for migrant crisis expected to make NYC’s budget hole ‘bigger:’ official
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