Three of the defendants have been arrested, while a fourth who allegedly threatened a Border Patrol agent remains a fugitive.
Four men are facing federal charges, accused of smuggling thousands of people into the US from Guatemala in what officials call “one of the largest human smuggling rings in the nation.”
An alleged high-ranking leader of the violent MS-13 gang has been extradited from Guatemala to the United States to face racketeering conspiracy
Feds: 4 accused of smuggling 20K undocumented immigrants from Guatemala into the U.S.
Feds Arrest Heads of Smuggling Ring That Trafficked 20,000 Immigrants into the U.S.
20,000 illegal immigrants smuggled into US by human smuggling group
Officials arrested two illegal immigrants from Guatemala after they smuggled roughly 20,000 illegal immigrants into the United States.
President Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to deport millions of undocumented immigrants residing in the United States, but so far, the pace of deportations has held steady compared to last year,
Federal agents announced four Guatemalan men have been charged in connection with the bust of an alleged human smuggling operation in Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal authorities in Los Angeles arrested two alleged leaders of a criminal organization suspected of smuggling 20,000 people from Guatemala to the U.S. and charging each person as much as $18,000 to get them into the country.
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Suspected leader of ring accused of smuggling 20,000 people into United States arrested in LAFour people accused of smuggling about 20,000 undocumented immigrants from Guatemala to the United States, including seven who died in an Oklahoma car crash in 2023, have been charged by federal authorities in Los Angeles.
Federal prosecutors connect a man, already in jail for a deadly Oklahoma crash, to a large human trafficking ring.
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