Houston immigration raid part of multistate human smuggling case
Raid teams of federal immigration agents at dawn Thursday served search warrants at two businesses in the Chinatown area of southwest Houston, detaining 11 people suspected of being part of a human smuggling operation.
"We are executing a court-ordered enforcement of an ongoing criminal investigation into illicit criminal activities," said Greg Palmore, spokesman for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
More than a dozen federal agents could be seen searching the offices of two businesses operating as employment agencies. The raid is part of a multistate operation in major cities in Texas and Louisiana.
A government helicopter circled the store front locations at in the 9100 block of Bellaire as agents moved suspects to waiting vans. Other other agents examined paperwork in the offices.
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