{"id":1007694,"date":"2021-11-13T13:59:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T18:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1007694"},"modified":"2021-11-13T13:59:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T18:59:25","slug":"texas-police-national-guard-nab-teen-human-smuggler-at-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-police-national-guard-nab-teen-human-smuggler-at-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Police, National Guard Nab Teen Human Smuggler at Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftexas-police-national-guard-nab-teen-human-smuggler-at-border%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1007694&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Group-Raft-bodies-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A human smuggler in Roma, Texas, received a surprise from a group of Texas Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol Troopers and Texas Army National Guard soldiers when he was arrested Tuesday night. As the smuggler ferried migrants across the Rio Grande, authorities sprang into action.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was highlighted in a tweet by Fox News\u2019 Bill Melugin.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"10.900849858357\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: For the first time, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TxDPS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TxDPS<\/a> &amp; the TX National Guard captured a human smuggler who was using a raft to bring 7 illegal immigrants across the Rio Grande in Roma, TX. The 17 y\/o smuggler fought troopers. A 45 y\/o illegal resisted &amp; is a previously deported felon. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FoxNews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U26ig7CuFc\">pic.twitter.com\/U26ig7CuFc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillFOXLA\/status\/1459170135298695169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Authorities generally refrain from conducting such operations out of fear that watercrafts could capsize with children on board.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Fox News report, the smuggler was transporting only adult males. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/border\/2021\/11\/09\/exclusive-video-smugglers-coordinate-with-national-guard-to-ferry-migrants-into-south-texas\/\">reported<\/a> by Breitbart Texas, smugglers generally operate with impunity almost nightly. In many cases, the inflatable rafts are filled with mostly family units and very young children\u2013making any attempt to intervene risky.<\/p>\n<p>In Tuesday\u2019s arrest, the 17-year-old smuggler attempted to fight off the troopers but was ultimately subdued. The smuggler will be charged with assault on a public servant, resisting arrest, and smuggling of humans. One migrant within the group, 45-year-old Jose Ramos Portillo of El Salvador, also resisted arrest. He was later determined to be a previously deported felon convicted of sexual assault. Ramos faces charges of resisting arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The situation in Roma, like in many border cities, has residents and law enforcement frustrated at the almost daily episodes of smuggling activity. On Monday, Breitbart Texas observed one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/border\/2021\/11\/09\/exclusive-video-civilian-tries-to-puncture-human-smugglers-raft-on-texas-bank-of-rio-grande\/\">frustrated citizen<\/a> using a rope and makeshift grappling hook hoping to deflate a raft.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests of migrants along the southwest border are projected to exceed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/border\/2021\/11\/10\/exclusive-border-patrol-projects-1-8m-migrant-apprehensions-in-2022\/\">1.8 million this fiscal year<\/a>, surpassing what was also an all-time record in FY2021.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/author\/randy-clark\/\"><em><br \/>Randy Clark<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;is a 32-year veteran of the United States Border Patrol.&nbsp; Prior to his retirement, he served as the Division Chief for Law Enforcement Operations, directing operations for nine Border Patrol Stations within the Del Rio, Texas, Sector. Follow him on Twitter @RandyClarkBBTX.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A human smuggler in Roma, Texas, received a surprise from a group of Texas Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol Troopers and Texas Army National Guard soldiers when he was &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}