El Paso, Texas (Border Report): Up to 1,000 smugglers utilize an internet chat room to select human “loads,” as border guards in Arizona have discovered after apprehending two women in a car transporting migrants.
Desiree and Veronica Aguirre were detained by Border Patrol authorities on May 25 in the vicinity of Naco, Arizona, while they were purportedly driving a gray, two-door Dodge Challenger on State Road 92 that was carrying three migrants.
Before the Challenger continued along SR 92, agents kept an eye on security cameras located it close to the border. They alerted field agents, who then started an immigration stop, according to court documents.
Upon inspection, it was discovered that the three individuals seated in the back seat were illegal immigrants from Mexico.
A criminal complaint filed on May 28 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona alleges that during interviews with the migrants, they disclosed that the gray challenger approached them on a road after they crossed into the United States and that a female passenger opened the door and pushed her seat forward to let them into the sports car.
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Authorities recognized the traveler as Tucson, Arizona native Desiree Aguirre, a citizen of the United States. Her mobile was purportedly searched consentingly, and the GPS coordinates of the migrants’ pickup site were discovered.
The complaint states that a more thorough search turned up a group chat on the private Telegram Messenger program with over 1,000 participants that included “information for picking up loads of illegal aliens in the Arizona area.”
The complaint claims that chat participants have posted recordings to the chat wherein they are seen loading migrants into their cars and flaunting the money they were paid for the “job.”
Two charges of conspiring to transfer illegal aliens and aiding and abetting are being brought against Desiree Aguirre and her driver, Veronica Aguirre.
The inquiry is still on.
