{"id":2614669,"date":"2026-06-16T13:59:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mexican-man-sentenced-for-smuggling-robbing-migrants-at-southern-border\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T14:00:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T18:00:42","slug":"mexican-man-sentenced-for-smuggling-robbing-migrants-at-southern-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mexican-man-sentenced-for-smuggling-robbing-migrants-at-southern-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican man sentenced for smuggling, robbing migrants at southern border"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fmexican-man-sentenced-for-smuggling-robbing-migrants-at-southern-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=2614669&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--><p>A Mexican man, Raul Saucedo-Huipio from mexicali, has been sentenced to over seven years in federal prison for his role in a widespread <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">human smuggling<\/a> operation that facilitated the illegal entry of more than 200 migrants from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America into the United states between 2018 and 2022. He was extradited from Mexico and convicted of conspiracy and bringing aliens into the U.S..<\/p>\n<p>Saucedo-Huipio led a ring that charged tens of thousands of dollars per person and employed various methods, including climbing over border walls with ladders, cutting holes in <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >older border barriers<\/a>, and using planks to cross rivers. The association also exploited migrants, stealing from them and holding them at gun or knife point. they often transported migrants through dangerous areas and pushed children across rivers on makeshift rafts.<\/p>\n<p>The justice Department highlighted the threat of human smuggling, emphasizing its impact on national security and vulnerable individuals. Saucedo-Huipio was arrested by Mexican authorities in March 2023 and pleaded guilty to the charges.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Mexican man has been sentenced to federal prison for his role in a \u201cprolific\u201d <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/human-smuggling\">human smuggling<\/a> ring that helped people from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East illegally enter the United States at through <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mexico\">Mexico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Raul Saucedo-Huipio of Mexicali, Mexico, received 87 months, or just over seven years, for facilitating the travel of more than 200 migrants to the U.S. between 2018 and 2022, the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/department-of-justice\">Justice Department<\/a> announced Monday evening.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/4610697\/mother-tip-unravel-white-house-ufc-drone-attack-plot\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Mother\u2019s tip helped unravel White House UFC drone plot: Affidavit<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/4610300\/police-kill-suspect-accused-shooting-woman-northwest-dc\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Police kill suspect accused of shooting woman in Northwest DC<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/4609017\/ice-officer-struck-fleeing-vehicle-new-jersey\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>ICE officer struck by fleeing vehicle in New Jersey<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saucedo-Huipio, 51, was extradited from Mexico for the trial and convicted for charging tens of thousands of dollars per person to cross the U.S.-Mexico border, according to the indictment. The Justice Department <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/mexican-citizen-sentenced-role-prolific-human-smuggling-organization-moved-aliens-central\">called<\/a> the smuggling organization \u201cprolific.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap\" style=\"min-height:5px;\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" style=\"display:none;\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his role as a supervisor of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/90-migrants-found-in-suspected-smuggling-ring-in-texas\/\" title=\"90+ migrants found in suspected smuggling ... in Texas\">smuggling ring<\/a>, Saucedo-Huipio led people from all over the world on their travels to Mexico, then over the southern border. He is responsible for leading citizens from and through Bangladesh, Yemen, Pakistan, Eritrea, India, the United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Russia, Egypt, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico into the U.S.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHuman smuggling is not a victimless crime. It is a direct assault on our national security and an exploitation of some of the world\u2019s most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shocking-number-of-front-line-health-care-workers-refusing-covid-19-vaccine\/\" title=\"Shocking Number of Front Line Health Care Workers Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine\">vulnerable people<\/a>,\u201d said the Justice Department\u2019s Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, A. Tysen Duva.\u00a0\u201cThis criminal organization not only moved aliens across the border; it stole from them and left them in desperate situations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saucedo-Huipio and a co-conspirator were arrested by Mexican authorities in March 2023, then extradited to the U.S. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to bring an alien to the U.S. and bringing an alien to the U.S.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap\" style=\"min-height:5px;\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" style=\"display:none;\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saucedo-Huipio and co-conspirators used various methods to get migrants across the border, including providing a ladder for them to climb over the border wall. The wall ranges from 18 to 30 feet tall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4608592\/house-democrats-newark-ice-detention-delaney-hall\/\">HOUSE DEMOCRATS HEAD TO NEW JERSEY FOR FORUM ON ICE\u2019S DELANEY HALL DETENTION FACILITY<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The group would locate and shuffle migrants through holes cut into older border wall from the Bush and Obama administrations, as well as provided planks for migrants to ride across the Rio Grande or canals at the border. In one incident, Saucedo-Huipio pushed three small children across the river atop a wooden plank.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap\" style=\"min-height:5px;\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" style=\"display:none;\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The convicted human smuggler also robbed migrants of money, cellphones, and other belongings, holding them at knife point or gun point, according to the indictment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexican man jailed for leading major human smuggling ring into U.S<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2655,"featured_media":2614670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Border-Crisis-Migrants-Wall-Immigration-illegal-bbt1.webp?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[33709,33010,3813,70998,14287],"class_list":["post-2614669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-border-security","tag-criminal-justice","tag-immigration","tag-migrant-rights","tag-smuggling"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Border-Crisis-Migrants-Wall-Immigration-illegal-bbt1.webp?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614669","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\/2655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2614669"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2614673,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614669\/revisions\/2614673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2614670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2614669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2614669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2614669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}