A Mexican citizen was arrested for human smuggling in Texas after authorities observed a man carrying a child into the U.S. and located her a short time later.
The shocking incident unfolded on Friday near Del Rio, a city in Val Verde County.
Surveillance cameras captured a male suspect running near the Rio Grande with a young girl in his arms before she was loaded into a vehicle and whisked away.
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A short time later, Texas Department of Public Safety (TxDPS) troopers pulled over a pickup truck believed to be carrying the child.
Inside they found a male driver, the 5-year-old girl, and a Mexican woman claiming to be her mother.
During questioning, the woman first told troopers she and the driver were friends, but later confessed that he was part of a smuggling organization she had paid to bring the young girl into the U.S.
Meanwhile, the girl told another trooper she had been carried across the Rio Grande by a stranger earlier that day.
“The mother, Dolores Lopez, from Mexico, a temporary resident residing in North Carolina, was inside the Ram 1500,” TxDPS spokesman Lt. Chris Olivarez explained in a statement.
“She stated that she located a smuggling organization via the Internet, which agreed to smuggle her daughter into the United States for $8K.”
The driver, identified as Roman Ibarra Rojo, was arrested and charged with smuggling of persons younger than 18 years of age.
Ibarra Rojo, a Mexican national with permanent residency in the U.S., was also arrested in 2022 for human smuggling, according to Lt. Olivarez.
He reportedly told authorities he was promised $1,000 to smuggle the child.
“DPS is conducting a follow up investigation in pursuing charges against the mother upon review by the District Attorney’s Office,” Lt. Olivarez stated.
InfoWars has been documenting a recent surge of ‘child migrants’ being smuggled and trafficked into Texas.
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