The U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcment (USICE) reported today that agents arrested the owners and employees yesterday of 5 Arizona commercial shuttle transportation companies based on a year long investigation to identify and apprehend perpetrators of human smuggling. Over 800 agents and officers from various federal, state and local law enforcement agencies carried out the arrests.
The arrests were the result of the USICE’s heightened internal enforcement policy to protect the communities and, to identify, apprehend, prosecute, and deport individuals the USICE knows or has reason to believe are involved in human smuggling and other major crimes.
Some of the individuals arrested will be allowed to remain in the U.S. to testify against the perpetrators assuming that they have no criminal complications of their own.