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HSI El Paso locates, recovers 70 missing children in multi-agency operation

Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) El Paso, the Texas Department of Public Safety and numerous other federal, state and local agencies located and recovered 70 missing children as a part of a three-week operation in West Texas.  Keep reading...

ICE ERO Boston arrests criminal fugitive near Somerville, Massachusetts, convicted in Brazil on child rape charges

Officers with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston field office arrested Vagner Brito Paixao in Somerville, Massachusetts, on May 25, a criminal fugitive previously convicted and sentenced to serve 14 years in prison on child rape charges in Brazil. The case was referred to ERO Boston by the ERO attaché in Brazil. Brito Paixao, 31, who posed a threat to public safety based on his conviction in Brazilian criminal court, was arrested without incident.  Keep reading...

ICE removes unlawfully present Salvadoran who provided material support to an undesignated terrorist organization

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Buffalo Field Office, with assistance from ERO El Salvador and the Security Alliance for Fugitive Enforcement Task Force, removed an unlawfully present noncitizen on May 6, who provided material support to an undesignated terrorist organization.  Keep reading...

South Texas truck driver convicted of smuggling 73 people in tractor trailer following ICE HSI investigation

A South Texas man pleaded guilty June 1 to illegally transporting undocumented migrants within the United States following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Corpus Christi, Texas, with assistance from the U.S. Border Patrol.  Keep reading...

HSI Dallas-led investigation yields 20-year sentence for sex trafficker

A Dallas man was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for sex trafficking a minor following an investigation by the Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) Dallas-led North Texas Trafficking Task Force (NTTTF).  Keep reading...

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