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Smuggler Pleads Guilty to Moving Migrants Through Cartel-Built Border Tunnel
Prosecutors said the network charged migrants up to $30,000 and was tied to Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion activities.
- On Friday, Mexican smuggler Luis Carlos Davalos-Lopez pleaded guilty to conspiracy to bring migrants into the United States through a tunnel beneath the US-Mexico border.
- Built by the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion, the tunnel stretched roughly 1,000 feet from Ciudad Juarez-to-El Paso, connecting to public storm drains in Texas.
- Smugglers charged migrants up to $30,000 to navigate the underground route, directing them to exit points where they climbed into trucks through a concealed trap door.
- Davalos-Lopez faces a maximum of 10 years in prison, following his associate Maria Del Rosario Navarro-Sanchez, who pleaded guilty last month to conspiring to provide material support to CJNG.
- Treating cartel smuggling as counterterrorism, the Trump administration's strategy is reflected in U.S. Attorney Justin Simmons's statement that convictions are "another nail in the coffin for these transnational criminal organizations.
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The tunnel was located by U.S. authorities in January 2025, and connected Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, to El Paso, Texas
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Smuggler Pleads Guilty to Bringing Migrants Through Tunnel Beneath U.S.-Mexico Border
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