Brownsville, Texas - U.S. Customs and
Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Veterans’ International Bridge at the
Brownsville port of entry intercepted a woman for alleged violations of
immigration law. The United States citizen allegedly attempted to facilitate a
Mexican child’s entry into the United States without valid entry documents.
On Saturday, August 18, 2012 at the
Veterans’ International Bridge a 31-year-old female U.S. citizen who resides in
Houston, Texas and a minor child applied for admission to enter the United
States. A CBP officer’s primary inspection resulted in the vehicle and its
occupants being referred to CBP secondary for further examination. In passport
control secondary a CBP officer used a CBP database and discovered the minor
child is a citizen of Mexico with no legal documents to enter or reside in the
United States.
CBP officers took the adult into custody
for alleged violations of immigration law. The Mexican minor child was
processed as an unaccompanied alien child and will be placed in the care of
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Refugee Resettlement
(HHS-ORR).
“CBP officers on a daily basis stop
alleged attempts to enter the U.S. by using legitimate documents that do not
belong to the people for whom they are being presented. CBP officers stopped
another alleged attempt to allegedly smuggle an undocumented minor into the
country. I applaud the work being done by our frontline CBP officers,” said
Michael Freeman, Port Director, Brownsville.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged
with the management, control, and protection of our Nation's borders at and
between the official ports of entry. CBP is charged with keeping terrorists and
terrorist weapons out of the country while enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws.
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