The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has arrested several migrants in the past few weeks who have been seeking violent crimes, such as sexual assault on children.
In Laredo, Texas, DPS arrested a Hongjuran citizen for sexual assault in Harris County during a traffic stop that took place as part of Operation Lone Star.
The stop occurred just after 7am on February 12th. This is when a DPS trooper pulled an international tractor trailer in 2011 for a traffic violation.
When the truck stopped, the driver and several passengers took off towards the brush, DPS said.
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Junior Adarido Montoya Alvarez was charged with human smuggling and was later found to be sought for sexual assault in Harris County, Texas. (Texas DPS)
With the help of an additional agency, seven illegal immigrants and a truck driver, and 49-year-old junior Adarido Montoja Alvarez, he was found and taken into custody.
According to the DPS, Montoya Alvarez is a Honduras national with a legal permanent status. He was arrested for human smuggling and was later discovered to be sought in Harris County for sexual assault.
The seven illegal immigrants detained came from Guatemala and Mexico and were referred to the Border Patrol, according to the DPS.
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Armando Alonso-Cortez and Carlos Daniel Espinoza-Arguello were sought for sexual assault on a child in Texas. (Texas DPS)
The day before, 26-year-old Carols Daniel Espinoza Arguero, an illegal criminal immigrant from Venezuela, was arrested by Socolo’s DPS agents and state troopers after being pulled over for alleged human smuggling.
In an investigation that found Espinoza-Arguello was sought by DPS for sexual assault on a child, he was arrested and booked at the El Paso County Jail.
Espinoza-Arguello’s arrest eventually led to a nearby hideout. There, two illegal immigrants from Venezuela were detained by the US Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operation (ERO).
The DPS trooper pulled up the 1999 Dodge pickup truck on February 6th due to a traffic violation in the city of Sullivan.
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After giving a warrant check, the trooper determined that the 40-year-old Armando Alonso-Cortez, 40, was an illegal criminal immigrant from Mexico. DPS said Alonso Cortez was appointed to the Alton Police Department for sexually assaulting a child. He was also considered a flight risk, DPS added.
Alonso Cortez was arrested on the spot and handed over to the Alton Police Station.
Operation Lone Star was launched in 2021 under Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has vowed to appeal a federal ruling blocking state law that allows authorities to arrest illegal immigrants and grant state judges the power to order deportation. (Getty Images)
Since its establishment, the operation has arrested over 500,000 illegal immigrants, halted more than 140,000 illegal attempts to enter the United States, made more than 50,000 criminal arrests, and killed more than 5 billion. A lethal dose of the fatality was seized. With more than 240 miles of border barriers, it established the only National Guard base along the Texas-Mexico border.
“In short, Texas has stepped up where the federal government rejected and in doing so protects all Americans from President Biden’s dangerous policies,” Abbott wrote to members of the US Congress later last month. I wrote.
He is proud of the operation, but Abbott said its success comes with a high price tag of over $11.1 billion.
In a cost breakdown document, Abbott said before the Biden administration, Texas spent about $800 million every two years to compensate for federal efforts at the border.
“The burden our state is carrying is a direct result of our refusal to do our job,” Abbott wrote. “The work Texas has done through Operation Lone Star is protected and will continue to benefit the entire country.”
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House Republicans have introduced legislation in the past that required Texas to refund billions of people spent on border security, but the law has not been passed.
Elizabeth Pritchett of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
