Over the past few weeks, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has arrested multiple immigrants for his offensive crimes such as the sexual assault of a child.
In Laredo, Texas, DPS arrested a Honduran national for sexual assault in Harris County, a traffic stop as part of Operation Lone Star.
The stop happened after 7 a.m. on February 12, when DPS soldiers pulled on the 2011 International Tractor Trailer Trailer for traffic violations.
Once the truck stopped, the driver and several passengers drove towards the brush.
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Teenager Adalid Montoya-Alvarez was charged with human smuggling and later learned that he was wanted in Harris County, Texas for sexual assault. (Texas DPS)
With the help of other agencies, seven drivers of illegal immigrants and trucks, 49-year-old Adalid Montoya-Alvarez, were found and detained.
Montoya-Alvarez is a Honduran national with legal and permanent status, DPS said. He was arrested for human smuggling and later discovered that he was wanted for sexual assault in Harris County.
Seven illegal immigrants in custody are from Guatemala and Mexico, known as Border Patrol, according to DPS.
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Armando Alonso-Cortez and Carlos Daniel Espinoza-Arguello are both wanted for sexual assault on children. (Texas DPS)
The day before, Daniel Espinoza-Arguello, a criminally illegal immigrant from Venezuela, arrested Venezuela’s criminally illegal immigrant in Socorro, in Solro ( Socorro) was arrested and removed from office for suspected human smuggling.
An investigation found that DPS wanted Espinoza-Arguello for sexual assault on children, who was arrested and booked in the El Paso County Jail.
The arrest of Espinoza-Arguello eventually led to a nearby hiding place where two illegal immigrants, also from Venezuela, were detained by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Evacuation Operations (ERO).
A DPS soldier also pulled a traffic violation in Sullivan on February 6 in a 1999 Dodge pickup truck.
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After the warrant was made, soldiers determined that passenger Armando Alonso-Cortez, 40, was a criminally illegal immigrant from Mexico. DPS said Alonso-Cortez was wanted by the Alton Police Department for sexual assault on children. DPS added that he was also considered a flight risk.
Alonso-Cortez was arrested on the spot and handed over to the Alton Police Department.
Operation Lone Star began in 2021 under the leadership of Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
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Since its inception, the operation has resulted in the arrest of more than 500,000 illegal immigrants, halted more than 140,000 illegal attempts to enter the United States, resulting in more than 50,000 criminal arrests, and more than 5 billion lethal doses of fentanyl, and exceed 240 miles of border barrier and establish the only National Guard base on the Texas-Mexico border.
“In short, Texas has stepped up its rejection of the federal government and does so protect all Americans from President Biden’s ” in a word,” Abbott wrote in a letter to U.S. Congressmen late last month. Dangerous policies.”
Although he was proud of the action, Abbott noted that its success was priced at over $11.1 billion, which has and continues to be paid by Texas taxpayers, when it “should be the responsibility of the federal government.”
Abbott said Texas spent about $800 million every two years to supplement federal work at the border before the Biden administration, in a document that violated costs.
“The burden our state bears is a direct result of the federal refusal to do the work,” Abbott wrote. “The work done by Texas through Operation Lone Star is protected and will continue to benefit the entire country.”
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House Republicans have made billions of dollars in bills to Texas spend on border security in the past, but legislation has never passed.
Elizabeth Pritchett of Fox News Digital contributed to the report.
