Texas Department of Public Safety<\/a>\u00a0and Laredo Border Patrol conducted an operation at a residential home in Laredo, Texas, on Tuesday, Dec. 17, officials said in a social media post.<\/p>\nDuring the operation, authorities said they uncovered\u00a017 individuals illegally present\u00a0in the United States.<\/p>\n
One individual, identified by officials as a \u201csuspected caretaker,\u201d was subsequently taken into custody and charged with human smuggling, according to authorities.<\/p>\n
In a photo shared on Laredo Border Patrol\u2019s social media account, 10 individuals \u2014 most with their faces obstructed \u2014 can be seen sitting on the kitchen floor inside the home.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Authorities did not provide details regarding the identities of the 17 illegal aliens or the alleged caretaker.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a social media post, Laredo Border Patrol celebrated the arrest, writing, \u201cOperation Success!\u201d<\/p>\n
The sting comes just days after agents uncovered yet another alleged human smuggling operation in the same town.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a photo shared on Laredo Border Patrol\u2019s social media account, 10 individuals \u2014 most with their faces obstructed \u2014 can be seen sitting on the kitchen floor inside the home.\u00a0 US Border Patrol Laredo Sector<\/p>\n
Twenty-three illegal immigrants were discovered hidden inside a truck during an Operation Lone Star in La Salle County on Nov. 28, 2025. DPS Texas<\/p>\n
According to US Customs and Border Patrol, two American citizens were\u00a0arrested for allegedly smuggling\u00a0four illegal aliens into their Laredo home on Dec. 8.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Two Guatemalan nationals, one Mexican national and a Honduran national were discovered inside the residence by authorities and subsequently\u00a0taken into custody pending deportation, CPB said in a social media post.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Authorities arrested the two unnamed American citizens, who are now facing federal alien smuggling charges.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIllegaly entry leads to deportation,\u201d CPB said in a social media post. \u201cDon\u2019t risk it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Border patrol officials stop illegal immigrants after crossing the border in California on June 10, 2024. James Breeden for the New York Post<\/p>\n
Two American citizens were\u00a0arrested for allegedly smuggling\u00a0four illegal aliens into their Laredo home on Dec. 8. @USBPChief\/X<\/p>\n
According to\u00a0data released<\/a>\u00a0by CPB, Laredo accounted for 4,400 land border encounters in the 2025 fiscal year, with the entire southwest region of Texas seeing 103,124 encounters within the same time frame.<\/p>\nThe Texas Department of Public Safety did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital\u2019s request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials revealed that an alleged human smuggling operation involving over a dozen individuals has been uncovered inside\u00a0a Texas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4028,6974,18398,27,29,28,5029,18787,734],"class_list":["post-95167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-arrests","tag-human-trafficking","tag-smuggling","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-us-border","tag-us-customs-and-border-protection","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}