Illegal Migrants Exposed to Smuggling Dangers Near Kingsville
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
KINGSVILLE (News Release) - On Friday, June 2, the Kingsville Border Patrol Station agents orchestrated a successful rescue mission directly contributed to a recently deployed RGV Missing Migrant Program (MMP) mobile rescue beacon. The beacon was activated by two subjects that were lost and in distress on a ranch. Agents were able to quickly locate the two migrants and transport them to the Kingsville Border Patrol Station where they were medically assessed.
Later that afternoon, Kingsville Border Patrol Station agents apprehended a Mexican national, after they received a call from a local rancher regarding the migrant wandering near his front porch. Criminal record checks revealed that the Mexican national had multiple deportations and was previously arrested in 1995 by the Redwood City Sheriff’s Office in California, for rape: force/fear/etc. The subject was convicted and served three years’ confinement. In 2008, the man was arrested again by the Drug Enforcement Administration for the manufacture of methamphetamine and served 17 years’ confinement.
