Free news: Bryan Matthew McGeeney, 47, arrested June 5 on charges of rape, sodomy, coercing prostitution and giving drugs to minors, was released on bail Aug. 27.
By Bethany Blankley | The Center Square contributor
(The Center Square) – U.S. Border Patrol in far west Texas is warning rideshare drivers about human smugglers using rideshare apps to organize illegal smuggling activity.
(The Center Square) – The Biden administration called the government's only estimate of annual fraud losses "not plausible." Now, the Trump administration says fraud costs taxpayers hundreds of billions annually.
By Bethany Blankley | The Center Square contributor
(The Center Square) – At a recent Congressional hearing, Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement Chairman Michael Guest, R-Miss., and Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence Chairman August Pfluger, R-Texas, both said that because the southwest border was secure under the Trump administration, cartel and transnational criminal organizations had recently shifted focus to the northern border.Â
By Bethany Blankley | The Center Square contributor
(The Center Square) – Mexican-based human smuggling rings have been busted in multiple states. One involved smuggling hundreds of people from Central America, Africa and the Middle East into Arizona; another involved holding hostage foreign nationals in a ransom scheme where they were killed. Another involved a $200 million forced labor scheme on U.S. farms.
