A Lebanese man with a green card, or legal permanent residence status, was recently taken into custody in Fort Hancock and accused of smuggling undocumented migrants, according to the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas.
According to the criminal complaint, Abdallah Mohamad Alhussni was working as a rideshare driver when he joined a Facebook group to look for higher-paying work, which led him to communicate with a migrant smuggling facilitator via WhatsApp.
According to the US Attorney’s Office, he allegedly performed ten smuggling operations, transporting roughly 20 people from the Fort Hancock region to other areas in El Paso for around $150 per trip.
This is one of 476 new immigration and immigration-related criminal cases filed by federal prosecutors in the Western District of Texas between October 2 and October 15, according to the United States Attorney’s Office.
In another El Paso-related case, an illegal Honduran immigrant is charged with impersonating someone else and seeking to circumvent immigration regulations by using an assumed or fictitious name. Meslin Donaldo Gutierres-Cruz allegedly submitted a State of Colorado birth certificate with the name and birth date of an individual with the initials M.G. when applying for admission to the United States at the Paso Del Norte Port of Entry in El Paso last week.
According to the criminal complaint, a Customs and Border Protection officer scanned Gutierres-Cruz’s fingerprints, confirming that he had previously been removed from the United States on August 9. Gutierrez-Cruz has been deported seven times and has past convictions for driving without a license and cocaine possession, according to the US Attorney’s Office.
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