Up to 1,000 smugglers utilize an internet chat room to select human “loads,” as border guards in Arizona have discovered after apprehending two women in a car transporting migrants.
Desiree and Veronica Aguirre were detained by Border Patrol authorities on May 25 in the vicinity of Naco, Arizona, while they were purportedly driving a gray, two-door Dodge Challenger on State Road 92 that was carrying three migrants.
Before the Challenger continued along SR 92, agents keeping an eye on security cameras located it close to the border. They alerted field agents, who then started an immigration stop, according to court documents.
The three people in the back seat were Mexican nationals who were in the country illegally, according to the inspection. The gray challenger approached the migrants on a road after they crossed into the United States, according to interviews with them.
A criminal complaint filed on May 28 in U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona claims that a female passenger opened the door and pushed her seat forward to let them into the sports car.
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Desiree Aguirre, a Tucson, Arizona native and US citizen, was recognized by the authorities as the passenger. The GPS coordinates of the migrants’ pickup location were purportedly discovered through a consenting search of her mobile.
The complaint states that a more thorough search turned up a group chat on the private Telegram Messenger program with over 1,000 participants that included “information for picking up loads of illegal aliens in the Arizona area.”
The complaint claims that chat participants have posted recordings to the chat wherein they are seen loading migrants into their cars and flaunting the money they were paid for the “job.”
Two charges of conspiring to transfer illegal aliens and aiding and abetting are being brought against Desiree Aguirre and her driver, Veronica Aguirre.
The inquiry is still on.
