[♪ suspenseful music playing]
-Hello. How are you doing today?
-Good, how are you?
-Good. Where are you off to?
-I'm going home.
-Have a good day.
-Have a good day, sir.
-Bye-bye.
-Hey, how are you?
Anything to declare today? Alcohol, tobacco, firearms?
How much currency are you traveling with today?
No currency? Okay.
What were you doing in Canada?
Okay, how long were you there for?
Just for the night?
Escort lane four. Escort lane four.
All right, you wanna walk him over for me?
-This person was stopped due to a primary officer didn't
think his story made a lot of sense.
Sent him in just for an enforcement check to
kind of see, hey, what's going on with it.
-Have we checked the headliner?
I'm gonna pop the trunk.
Oh, wow. Found a bag full of money.
[♪ theme music plays].
I opened the bag, full of money.
-All right.
-Claimed he forgot he had, which I find hard to believe.
-Follow me, please.
-We're gonna do a pat down, okay?
Spread your feet.
-We did a pat down. Found more money.
Said he got it gambling.
-All right.
I'll start with the biggest bills and I'll separate them
into stacks of ten.
-She's gonna count, and then we'll verify the amount.
I've never had a money seizure.
It's odd that people, you know,
"Oh, I forgot I had that amount of money on me."
-I know when I have more than $100.
So, I don't know how you don't realize how much money
you're traveling with when you're traveling with
thousands of dollars, but.
Maybe that's a different bar that I'm not a part of, so.
-I think people don't declare their money because they think
we're gonna take it from them.
And we're not, we just want to know how much money's
coming in and out of the country.
All right, so we ended up with…
33,617 U.S. dollars.
Pretty good day.
His money's being seized because he failed to declare it.
We'll pass the case off to HSI.
They chose to come down and take the case.
That money goes to our seized property specialist,
and then it will stay in the vault till they decide
what to do with it.
All right.
[bell ringing]
-This is actually the Rio Grande.
This is where the New Mexico- Texas border meet.
And the river goes north into New Mexico.
So that's why this is a busy area to smuggle people.
I mean, real easy, you can pull off right here,
somebody can jump in, and, and you're on the road,
blending in with traffic.
A lot of these smuggled humans, they just wanna come in,
for a better quality of life, make some money
to send back home.
When smugglers realize that they have this need,
they'll exploit that.
So the people that pick them up here are a part of it.
They're, they're getting paid, they're making money.
That's one of the many hazards that people that are being
smuggled face and, you know, when they're coming across,
is the train.
They'll try to jump on a train, which is dangerous.
You got everything from temperatures,
vehicle accidents that they can get hurt on or even killed.
They come across, you know, sometimes for a better life
and end up in a, the family ends up in a worse situation
than, than when they started their journey.
[agent] The return comes back to a black Kia Soul.
-10-4.
So, this morning, we're working on an operation with
Texas Department of Public Safety.
They saw a black Kia going to an area in New Mexico where
they pick up a lot of smuggled humans from stash houses.
So, they're following it now and we're gonna head out there
to see if we can uh, assist in any way.
If there are smuggled humans, they'll usually run with that
case and then develop any, anything from there.
We're not out here just trying to find the smuggled humans.
We're out here trying to disrupt the organizations
that are committing the criminal offense of smuggling.
[agent] She's still heading northbound.
-10-4.
We're gonna see it come up pretty soon.
There it is.
[agent] Fresh green. Continuing north.
[agent] We're moving.
That's a go!
-10-4.
They'll pull him over and, uh,
see if there are smuggled humans inside.
[agent] The stop's been initiated.
-10-4.
[♪ suspenseful music playing]
How's it going?
-So this young lady's claiming to be going to
a house over there…
…where they pick up.
Supposedly, she was gonna go clean the house…
…with no cleaning supplies.
-But since I don't know…
…this area, I came early.
Well, now you guys stopped me.
-Okay.
So, they suspected that she might be loaded
with smuggled humans.
Uh, when they stopped her, she, she wasn't loaded up.
She's a U.S. citizen, so sometimes that's the person
they'll use as a pickup driver.
'Cause if they do get caught and arrested,
they won't get deported, uh,
and they still have their citizenship.
So that's kind of where we're at.
Um, we cut her loose.
Continue on with this investigation.
Find somebody that picked up
or is picking up smuggled humans.
[seagulls cawing]
[Officer Perez] We're the Contraband Enforcement Team
out of Miami.
This team, we check hundreds of packages
throughout the week.
You, we see everything possible coming through Miami.
Looks good.
-This is from Ecuador going to Miami.
It's pretty much somebody sending banana cream Jell-O.
I mean, you can buy this stuff right here.
-It almost looks like ketamine from that.
Look at the powder consistency.
Get the Gemini.
In Miami, we have a saying, "We don't get easy loads."
The people smuggling this stuff through, they're gonna
make us really work for it.
So, it's on us to have that extra motivation,
to be very thorough with our inspections.
Sugar.
Sugar and fake sugar.
It's good to go.
We're gonna just do a sweep at a warehouse.
-This our mobile X-ray van.
We use this to X-ray cargo most of the time,
and passenger bags.
So, we're trying to set up right now so we can X-ray this
cargo on the right coming from Georgetown, Guyana.
[Officer Perez] We've been noticing trends
with this country for narcotics.
-Come help me with this, man.
We always have to look at cargo with voids in them.
-All right, cool.
-So, just help me lift this, man.
-You get that end. -Lift with your knees.
[laughing]
Do you see anything unusual?
-It's either really dense, or they put shielding on it.
-Smugglers, they will use a shielding material…
…to block the image.
So that would be an indicator for us to…
-Inspect the cargo.
-All right. Let's see what we can do.
-Let's see. -Can you lift?
-Let's see how heavy it is. It looks like a pump?
-Yeah. -What it looks like to you?
Like a pump, right?
-Looks like some kind of motor.
-Ah. Let's see.
We'll have a better look.
-There's been a big trend in narcotics being smuggled
through machine parts.
So, it's worth the look.
-There you go. There you go. That's good.
-All right, it twists right off.
What's in there?
-I don't know, bro.
-That don't make sense.
[♪ suspenseful music playing]
-I don't know if it's hydraulic fluid or some kind of fluid.
-But why would they mix electronics with fluid?
This gives me a funny feeling 'cause there's electronics
in there, so.
There's also some wires and they're covering the wires
with some liquid.
I don't usually see that.
That don't make sense.
-Let me field test it.
And see if it's not narcotics.
I know some people think, "Oh, it's not powder."
You know?
But, we've seen cocaine in liquid form.
Liquid form makes it a lot easier to hide, because
some people don't really suspect to see liquid cocaine.
Yeah, it's not popping.
-Let's try a different test.
Bring a Gemini here.
-This is a Gemini.
It pretty much analyzes any chemical and it can give you
the chemical makeup of anything you, uh, you test it with.
So maybe it'll pick up on narcotics.
-Diesel.
-Diesel, power steering fluid, vacuum pump oil, and kerosene.
All right. Yeah, so it's legit.
I mean, you'll see it on, sometimes, on things that,
like, have certain pressure gauges and stuff like that.
-Better safe than sorry, right?
-If we would've just field-tested it, we knew,
"Okay, that it's not coke."
But Miami gets so many designer drugs coming through
that, with the Gemini, it's, it's gonna pinpoint
exactly what it is.
The Gemini let us know that it's nothing illicit.
Now everyone can rest easy knowing that we didn't let
anything get past us.
-Good as new, right? -Yeah.
[Officer Savage] We try to dig through it a little bit more.
And maybe we get lucky and we find something.
The effort is what finds seizure.
I always go by that motto.
[♪ suspenseful music playing]
-Have a good day, Miss.
Hello, familiar face.
-Oh, it's you! -It is you. How are you?
-I'm okay. How are you?
-Wonderful.
You're just on your way to work?
-I am.
-Have a good day.
-Have fun.
-You too. Take care.
Currently, we're in Detroit, Michigan at the tunnel.
That tunnel is surrounded by the Detroit River that runs
between Canada and the city of Detroit.
How we doing?
-Good. How are you?
-Not too bad, thank you.
You get a lot of the frequent crossers, you know,
everybody that's traveling for work every day.
But then you get, you're thrown in your
random travelers here and there
that are coming from Toronto, Niagara Falls.
-How're you doing, sir?
Anything that we need to declare today into the United States?
-No.
-In Detroit, along with the tunnel,
we also have the Ambassador Bridge.
And the Detroit Metro Airport.
Between the land border and the airport,
most of the things that we confiscate
and seize are guns, ammunitions, and, uh, currency.
-Move the vehicle to the secondary area.
Check for currency.
-You Canadian? -Yes, sir.
Uh, where's the document? Oh.
-Good. You have the documents.
-Hang on. Okay. We got it.
I have that. Uh, hang on.
Where's the other page?
No, no.
-Do you have the money? All the money we've got?
-Yeah, the money I gave, hang on.
-Hold your money. -Hang on, okay.
I need my coat.
-This car was referred to stop and report money over 10,000.
Everybody crossing into the United States,
or out of the United States,
they need to report everything excess of 10,000 U.S. dollars
for tracking purposes.
-What do you have in your left pocket?
-Oh, a card. -Here, here.
-Oh, that's my sock. I have two stashes.
-Can I see it? -Yeah. That's my cash sock.
This is how we, how we carry cash in Canada.
-Let's go. We'll go inside.
-Okay.
-They declared a lot of money. We're gonna count the money.
We'll check, you know, for possible extra money.
We'll go inside and complete the inspection.
[♪ suspenseful music playing]
-This is like close to, uh, Mount Cristo Rey, which, like,
half of it's on the Mexican side,
half of it's on the U.S. side.
The whole mountain isn't fenced up, so it's a popular
place to smuggle people in.
You can hike up over the mountain and back down.
Pretty concealed, uh, with the draws and all the brush.
There's a lot of places where they can get picked up.
So, no fence, easy access,
and within seconds you're blending in.
[agent] He's pulling off to the side of the road.
Stopped prior to the intersection.
[agent] I got him.
[Agent Tony] Texas DPS pulled over a vehicle.
And, uh, it might be loaded with smuggled humans.
So, we're gonna assist DPS with the investigation.
There's the vehicle.
-You came in pretty quick.
-What they got?
-They were just standing by until you got here.
We'll check it out.
-Okay.
-Unlock the door.
Unlock the door.
-Let's go. Come outside.
Got one on the floor.
He's the driver?
-Yeah. -All right.
-Texas DPS pulled over a vehicle.
Uh, it's gonna be good for, uh, three undocumented non-citizens.
-And you.
-If somebody wants to make their way over here,
we can kind of help them out on this.
-Been a long day?
Where'd you travel from?
-Juarez.
-The driver stated he picked up these men.
Speaking to the three men, uh,
they told us that they had just crossed.
They've been traveling for about two days through Juarez
just to get here.
It's a tough venture for them as well, in the desert,
in the dry heat, without water.
In El Paso, Texas right now, it's, you know,
usually in the high 90s, 100s.
They're dehydrated.
So, it is a lot of a, of a danger to them.
-Border Patrol's gonna help,
uh, transport the smuggled humans.
-One at a time. One at a time.
[Agent Tony] What'll happen with the driver is, uh,
they'll take him back to the DPS office.
An HSI agent and a DPS agent will sit down
and conduct an interview,
and see what kind of information they get from him.
See if we can identify a stash house,
identify smugglers in Mexico,
or any coordinators in the United States between
here and the final destination of the smuggled humans.
-The driver is, like we always say, is just some
small piece of a huge puzzle.
We'll try to get more intelligence, you know,
ultimately be able to break up the organization
that's creating all of this.
[♪ suspenseful music playing]
-I have two Canadians.
They declare 16,000 Canadian and 4,000 U.S.
Can you guys come up here?
-Okay.
-Here, center of the screen.
-Where we going? -Right here. You can stay.
-I gotta empty out my pockets?
-Yup.
-This is my change.
-Why do you have all this money?
-Uh, because we might be buying, buying a car.
I own 100 cars.
-Yeah, who brings in cash?
-Everybody. I sell in cash.
If people want to buy a car from me, they bring cash.
-Is that what you do professionally?
-Well, I actually run a construction company, too.
But I've been collecting cars since I was a kid.
There should be about 4,000, give or take,
in American money, I think.
Uh, there should be, I think, 1105 in that pile,
but I'm guessing.
Canadian money is not worth the paper it's printed on.
-This Canadian is like plastic, man.
It's hard to count, man.
-I know. That's why we put it in the sock.
'Cause it just, it flies everywhere.
Like it's, it's not like your guys' money
where it has some grip.
-Okay, you're real close.
-Perfect. -It's close.
Around 16,000 Canadian and what is like, uh.
-And 4,000 American?
-Yeah, close to 4,000 American. Yeah.
-Yeah, yeah. Cash is king.
-When he arrived at the primary inspection,
he told how much money he has,
and that was the right thing to do.
The story adds up.
He's going to Vegas to buy a car.
It all sums up that it's legit travel.
-Okay, thank you very much.
-Yeah. -Pleasure.
You guys have a great day. You do a good job.
Thanks again.
-Bye-bye. -Have a good one.
-So every day you get your travelers that come into the
country that declare money honestly,
and some people that don't.
This guy was honest in his, his money declaration,
it's pretty spot on.
[revving engine]
[laughing]
The, the comic relief makes the day go a little bit faster.
[♪ suspenseful music playing]
-It's that crate over there.
-We got it. -The K-9's gonna run it.
-One of our members of our targeting team
targeted this piece of cargo because of
the route that it's taking.
-That's a good alert.
Good boy. Good boy.
[Officer Perez] We got an alert on the box.
It's a positive hit.
That gives us even more incentive to check the
inside of the cargo.
-Take it out and keep going.
[♪ suspenseful music playing]
-The heck is that?
-Hey.
-Doesn't look right.
[Officer Perez] This stands out.
That this was haphazardly slapped together, the welding
on it is very sloppy.
So we're gonna take a look at it with an X-ray.
-Too dense?
-Yeah.
[Officer Perez] We sent it through the X-ray.
Unfortunately, it's too dense.
So that's where we'll have to do a more intrusive inspection.
And, uh, the only way we can do that
is to actually drill the item.
[drilling]
And right there, a white powder.
[Officer Perez] Looks like powder, a white powder.
That is not supposed to be there.
-Let me get a test kit right now.
-We're going to do a field test, uh, to see, uh,
if it's narcotics,
and what kind of narcotics it could possibly be.
That should do it, right?
All right. So you're seeing that deep blue color?
Uh, that's letting us know that it's hitting on methamphetamine.
Now, we're going to take it to a secure location
for further extraction of the narcotics.
[♪ suspenseful music playing]
-There go the bricks.
-There could be more, uh, to, uh, the rest of the items
inside the box, so our guys are cutting into other pieces
of the, uh, machinery that was shipped in the same box.
And, uh, hopefully, we find something there as well.
[grinding]
[♪ suspenseful music playing]
-Where are you coming from today?
-Japan. -Japan?
-Yup.
-All right. Purpose of the trip?
-To see family.
-All right. How much money, cash, currency?
-A little bit.
Not much.
-How much is, how much is a little bit?
You're allowed to bring as much into the country as you want.
-300 dollars.
-Okay. Have a good day.
Detroit does not only have international borders,
such as the bridge and the tunnel.
We also have an international airport.
We do get a lot of currency seizures coming inbound.
And the ATCET team does currency leaving outbound.
[Officer Laskowski] ATCET stands for the
Anti-Terrorism Contraband Enforcement Team.
And we're heading to an outbound flight.
It's going to, Seoul, Korea.
It's one that we hit, pretty much, daily
for unreported currency.
Where are you going?
-Philippines.
-How much cash are you taking with you?
-$9,000.
-Traveling by yourself?
-No, my mom.
-Your mom? What's your job?
-I don't have one.
-Okay. How much cash are the two of you traveling with?
-I'm not sure how much she has, but I have $9,500.
-9500? How much do you have?
-Less than him.
-Less than him? -Yeah.
-What's less than him? Here, go talk to him.
Talk to him.
It looked like she was waiting for his cue what to say.
-You guys can step over here.
-She waited for him to kind of give him, give her the
go ahead to answer.
-If you are causing or cause the transportation of more
than $10,000, it is no problem at all.
It's fine. You just have to fill out a form.
-I have $9,500.
-Okay. Just write the total amount of currency you're
causing the transportation of, sign, and you'll be on your way.
Right where it says, "Total," here.
Here.
Yes, ma'am.
So what I need you to do is present all of the currency
that you're causing the transportation of.
-Right here.
-So this is, some people forget sometimes.
Do you have any more money anywhere else?
I'm gonna go through.
-No, nothing.
-I'm gonna go through all of the bags.
So just watch me. I'm gonna verify your money.
[♪ suspenseful music playing]
-We received information on a residence here in Las Cruces
that is supposedly harboring undocumented non-citizens and
has been doing so for quite some time now.
We're looking for smugglers who are responsible for the flow
of undocumented non-citizens into the United States.
But we're also looking for
the undocumented non-citizens themselves.
Because, unfortunately, smuggling organizations,
they don't view them as human beings.
They view them as a commodity and, um, that's where we
try to come in and just getting them into a more
safe environment than some of these organizations
are keeping them in.
The residence is located in a trailer park that's pretty
notorious for smuggling activities.
Uh, so we're gonna approach the residence and figure out
what exactly is going on.
I'm just here off of the, uh, side street.
[agent] 10-4.
[agent] I think everybody's here.
We're gonna roll in.
Here we go.
Police! Come out of here.
Outside.
Do you have documents to be here in the U.S.?
[Officer] Legally, no? -Can I put on my shirt?
-Come here, we'll bring your shirt and shoes.
Come here, come here, come here.
Come down this way.
Come here.
Hands up. Hands up.
Hands up! Take your hands out!
Police! Police!
Come out.
Hands up! Hands up!
-You got him?
-Yeah.
[Agent Ryan] How many?
-Looks like four.
[Agent Ryan] At least four.
So the agents knocked on the door.
There were three individuals located in the entryway.
Um, provided agents with consent to
come into the residence.
And then during the search of the residence,
there was one more individual found hiding in the bathroom.
-None of you have ID with you?
-No, nothing.
[Agent Ryan] They admitted that they're here
in the country illegally.
They're not in possession of any immigration documents that
would allow them to remain in the United States legally.
Any of them can tell us who owns this place?
-One's in the car.
-In here. -Somebody's in there?
-Police! Police!
-Come over here.
Don't grab anything.
-Raise your hands.
Resident, citizen?
--No. -Nothing?
Have we arrested you before?
-Yes, you have gotten me before.
-He's the…
-Caretaker?
-…caretaker.
-You don't have any documents?
-No.
-Everything you have in the bag.
-We located another one, the fifth one, that was hiding
underneath a blanket in the back of this car here.
Can you find out who owns this place?
-Whose trailer is it?
-That I don't know. I was just sleeping there.
[Agent Ryan] He's, uh, most likely the
caretaker of this location.
They usually try to sleep in different locations than the
people that they're smuggling.
So he's gonna be taken back to the station,
he's going to be interviewed,
and we'll try to figure out exactly what his role
is in this.
And figure out if we can link him to a smuggling scheme,
link him to a smuggling organization.
-You gonna go inside?
-Yeah. -All right.
-We started going through the house,
noticing large amounts of blankets.
There's mattresses.
Um, this light here doesn't work.
Doesn't appear to be electricity in this residence.
Back here, they've got some cell phones on the table,
wrapped in, uh, aluminum foil.
We see these a lot in stash houses.
That aluminum foil can prevent, um, any data from
going in and out from the phone.
These smuggling organizations don't want any information
getting out that could lead law enforcement to where the,
uh, stash house is.
The conditions here is pretty common of what we see.
It's poor conditions.
It smells pretty bad.
Um, it's pretty inhumane, the conditions that they're
being expected to survive in.
They're gonna be transported back to the Border Patrol
station where they're gonna be processed for whatever the
appropriate measure is, depending on their citizenship,
depending on their criminal history.
And then we'll move onto the next house.
-[in Spanish] Let's go.
[♪ suspenseful music playing]
[grinding]
-Op! Got it.
[♪ suspenseful music playing]
We're gonna stick a probe and
see if we get anything from there.
Ooh, all right.
So you can see we're getting some powder in there that
shouldn't be inside.
-You wanna cut the end off of this?
[grinding]
-There we go. Positive.
-Once we opened it up, we saw that there was another, uh,
aluminum package hidden within that cylinder.
-Well, we got this one out.
-Now, we're gonna be able to test it.
That's a, that's a good amount.
So from how it's crystallizer, it's a crystallized substance.
I'm thinking it's gotta be meth.
Yup.
So that's meth again.
We're going to get the official weight for all the packages.
5.45 kilos of methamphetamine.
There's no gimme loads in Miami.
They know they're dealing with experienced, motivated officers,
so they're gonna make us really work for it.
But we don't give up until we get 100%.
-No, and what's this right here, eight?
Um, and you have some envelopes in here?
-Uh huh. And here.
-Money inside of here?
-No.
-All right. Give me one second, okay?
Can you, can you come over here, real quick, and watch this?
May I speak with you over here?
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. -Okay.
First of all, thank you again for your cooperation.
-Of course.
-So listen, this is what I do a lot.
Where did the money that was presented today,
where did all of that money come from?
-From me.
-So it's, all of the money came from you?
-Yes.
-Okay. And what about your mom?
-I don't know what she bring.
I don't know.
-So the reason why I ask you this, you had that bookbag on.
-Uh-hmm.
-When you had the money in a bag in that purse.
-Her purse?
-You had the, you was carrying the money.
-No, I carried her purse.
-You carrying it.
-Yeah, her purse.
-So, but who, whose money was that?
-On her purse, it's hers.
In my wallet, it's mine.
-Excuse me.
Hello, ma'am. How are you doing?
Did your son give you any of this money?
-I don't hold any money because I'm old.
So, my son is holding all of that money.
-So he's holding on. -Yeah.
-So he's holding all the money?
-Yeah.
-I don't even know how much it is.
But I'm gonna just verify that there's no more currency
inside of here.
More money.
-More money discovered. Additional currency.
-Oh, this one have… oh, yes.
-Hold up. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
-Hold on, let me check…
-Ma'am. Ma'am. Ma'am. Relax, okay?
They all have the same rubber bands.
What that shows me is that this money comes from one source.
95 and some change here.
Okay.
I'm gonna count this money, here, that was discovered.
-Eleven…
Five in each one.
-The currency reporting requirements,
inbound and outbound,
you can take as much currency as you like.
There's no limit.
But if it's over $10,000, you have to report it,
you fill out a form.
No taxes, no penalties.
And you just, you go on your way.
-Today, you guys did not present all your currency and
you failed to properly report.
[Officer Laskowski] When you take money out of the country,
you know, we don't know what it's for.
So it's important to, to track the currency
for legitimate purposes.
And more times than not, it does lead to a seizure,
'cause the violation is there.
[Officer Davis] The next move is we're gonna get the money count.
Sir, I need you to place all of your bags on this bag belt here.
[♪ suspenseful music playing]
-What's your job?
-I play poker.
-You play poker?
You're a professional poker player?
-Mini.
-Where do you play?
-LA.
-LA?
-He reported 9,500 and she reported $2,300.
The total was $22,865.
-The money is being seized today.
If you do not contact them within 30 days,
your money's considered forfeited.
So you have to either call them, fax them, or email them.
And then they're gonna tell you what you need to do
to possibly get your money back.
[Officer Davis] We do what we do because you don't know
where that money is coming from.
It could be illicit, it could be for terrorism,
it could be for anything that is negative against,
you know, the U.S.
So that's why we here to try to enforce that law.
-Yeah. The airline's right there.
They'll walk you over there.
[♪ suspenseful music playing]
-It's common to hit multiple locations in the same day.
It's been a very busy week.
And as a result, we received a lot of information.
So now, we're following up and we're going to do a
knock and talk here, see if we can speak to the
individuals inside and conduct a quick investigation
as to whether or not the information we have
is legitimate.
[agent] We'll do the one that has the sign on the trailer.
And then the second one is right here where the blue truck is.
-So they got information on both of these.
[barking]
You want to do them at the same time or?
-That's what I was gonna ask you.
-Yeah? Okay. -Here we go.
[knocking]
-Police!
[knocking]
[barking]
[Agent Ryan] I don't know if anybody's even answering.
-We'll run the plate.
-Police!
Hey! Come out!
Police!
Come outside!
-Hey, we got more coming. We got more coming.
[Agent Ryan] So you got here, you knocked on the door.
-Yeah, they came and opened the door.
As soon as we opened, he was like…
"You know, we've been here, we don't have any food."
"No one's taking care of us."
This one's smaller for the amount of people.
There's one bed.
One. One bed.
-Okay. You get a total number?
-36.
[Agent Ryan] 36. You know how long they've been here?
-This kid was saying that everybody's different times.
Some of them weeks. Some of them days.
-Okay.
It's a very small living space for 36 people to be in.
Most likely people sleeping on the floors and, um,
just not adequate living conditions.
Here comes the transports.
-This way. Over here.
-This amount of people, it's pretty common that it was
probably multiple trips, multiple drivers,
multiple vehicles dropping off at separate times,
separate dates.
The smugglers took away all of their phones, so they have
no way of contacting anybody.
-Just follow them.
[Agent Ryan] In addition to the humanitarian issue and the
safety and health of these individuals, we do want to
focus on the criminal investigation to see if we
can identify who's responsible for this.
At this point in time, we don't believe that that
individual is here.
They're probably living at a separate location.
We are gonna take them all back to the station,
conduct interviews,
see if we can tie these two smuggling events,
and maybe some outstanding smugglers working for these
smuggling organizations that now we can target.
-You guys are the last three?
-Yes.
-Today was definitely productive.
We got here as a result of work that's already been done.
And after today, we're gonna do even more work to try to
lead us to the next stash house, or lead us to the next
individual who's responsible for smuggling people in.