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An illegal immigrant was charged after a hit-and-run left a North Carolina father of two dead.

Rolbin Pacheco was charged with drunk driving and felony death by vehicle after reportedly striking and killing 36-year-old Cheston Edwards on March 29 in Princeton, North Carolina, police said. Edwards leaves behind a 9-year-old son and a 4-year-old daughter.

Pacheco, 35, is an illegal immigrant from Honduras and now wanted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency said.

Edwards was driving home after visiting his girlfriend late at night and was on the phone with her at the time of the crash. Pacheco was reportedly driving while drunk and going the wrong way on the highway. He was not injured in the deadly crash.

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He needs to know that he has hurt me, deeply, said Edwardss mother, Mary Edwards. Hes taken something from me that he shouldnt have taken.

Pacheco is being held on a $1 million bond.

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The news comes as the immigration crisis along the southern border continues. The Biden administration is facing fierce criticisms of its handling of the matter, including for Vice President Kamala Harris not yet visiting the border despite being the point person on the root causes of immigration.

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By Bethany BlankleyThe Center Squarehttps://www.thecentersquare.com

Gov. Greg Abbott has sent a letter to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris asking them to designate Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.

The cartels are bringing terror into Texas communities, Abbott said in his fourth letter to the administration about the border crisis.

The cartels smuggle narcotics and weapons into the United States to fund their illegal enterprises, Abbott writes. They force women and children into human and sex trafficking enriching themselves on the misery and enslavement of immigrants. They murder innocent people, including women and children. These Mexican drug cartels are foreign terrorist organizations, and it is time for the federal government to designate them as such.

The questions and concerns addressed in the previous three letters have remained unanswered by Biden and Harris, Abbott says. Harris, tasked with managing the illegal immigration crisis last month, has yet to visit the border, let alone Texas.

Meanwhile, Texas ranchers are left to fend for themselves defending their property from trespassing cartels and illegal immigrants evading law enforcement.

Landowners and ranchers living near the Texas-Mexico border have long dealt with illegal immigrants trespassing and evading Border Patrol and law enforcement. Ranchers explain that they regularly leave gates open, destroy fences and gates, light fires, break into properties and steal property.

Susan Kibbe, executive director of the South Texas Property Rights Association, said the smugglers Texans are dealing with now are heavily armed, and the illegal immigrants they are smuggling are often convicted criminals.

Kibbe obtained a video of smugglers from law enforcement after they posted it on TikTok and shared it with the media. In it, two heavily armed suspected smugglers are seen driving down a dirt road to transport people to the next alleged smuggler. The individual recording it is yelling in Spanish and pointing an AR-15 with a drum magazine out the windshield.

The video was recorded in Jim Hogg County, Texas, roughly 70 miles north of the U.S.Mexico border.

The Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol sector in south Texas is the busiest in the U.S. for illegal crossings. Since Oct. 1, 2020, 1,625 criminal aliens almost four times the number during the same time period last year have been arrested.

These criminal aliens were convicted here in the United States for crimes other than immigration, ranging from murder, sexual crimes, assault and narcotics trafficking, according to a statement from the Rio Grande border sector.

Currently, more than 1,000 illegal immigrants are evading capture by Border Patrol daily along the border, and many will end up traversing private ranchlands to get further into the interior of the United States.

As a result, federal and local law enforcement are advising landowners to carry firearms on their own property.

These [smugglers] have become a lot more militant, Scott Frazier, Texas Farm Bureau board member, told GOP congress members in their recent trip to the border April 7. Youre kind of scared of them. Youre kind of scared to be out on these ranches by yourself nowadays. Definitely scared to have your family here.

In the small Texas town of Cotulla, 70 miles north of Laredo, so much criminal activity by smugglers is occurring that the local school district sent a letter to warn parents: Please be watchful of your children as they are playing outside, walking home from school, or generally out of the house.

Cotulla Independent School District Superintendent Jack Seals and La Salle County Sheriff Anthony Zertuche said, Both our communities and the rural areas of the county have experienced a great increase in law enforcement chases and bailouts.

Bailouts occur when law enforcement agents attempt to stop a driver who is transporting illegal immigrants and they jump out of the vehicle and run away before they can be detained.

Zertuche said his deputies have been responding to eight to 10 car chases per day.

These chases sometimes end in bailouts inside the city limits, the letter states. The sheriffs office has been on top of these and are apprehending all of those trying to flee after bailing out.

Although the sheriffs office has increased patrols around the schools, parents are advised to lock their vehicles and their property.

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Three people have been arrested following an investigation into the alleged supply of small boats to cross-Channel people smugglers.

On April 8, a 33-year-old woman from the Hammersmith area of west London was arrested by the National Crime Agency (NCA) at a location in Glasgow. She was taken to Carlisle police station where she was questioned by NCA investigators on suspicion of attempting to facilitate illegal immigration. A property in Hammersmith was also searched. She was released under investigation on April 9.

Her arrest followed the detention of two U.K.-based suspects on April 7 by officers of the Dutch Royal Marechaussee (KMar) in The Hague, Netherlands. The pair, a 33-year-old from Hammersmith, and the other a 28-year-old man of no fixed abode, remain in custody and now face potential prosecution by the Dutch authorities. A number of deflated boats were also seized.

The arrests are all linked to an NCA investigation into the sourcing of rigid hull inflatable boats in the U.K. and Europe, which are then transported to the Netherlands for storage.

The boats are allegedly then supplied to organized crime groups involved in smuggling people across the English Channel from northern France and Belgium.

NCA Regional Head of Investigation Jacque Beer said: Smuggling people across the Channel in small boats is extremely hazardous and can have tragic consequences. The organized crime groups behind these attempts dont care about safety or preservation of life, they just see migrants as a commodity to profit from and exploit.

In our view those who supply them with boats knowing what they are going to be used for are equally as culpable in these criminal enterprises.

This operation is a demonstration of our determination to disrupt and dismantle people smugglers business models at every step, and we are grateful for the assistance of the Dutch authorities.

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HARLINGEN, Texas (KVEO) Armed intrusions, economic losses, fever ticks, trespassing and property damage, are just a few ways ranchers along the Rio Grande are affected by the influx of migrants crossing the border illegally.

Imgoing to step lightly and tell you we do carry ourguns. Ive had armed intrusions here before, said Richard Guerra, Starr County Rancher

Guerra owns 8,000 acres along the Rio Grande. Guerra said that when the migrants cross illegally, it can come at a cost.

Some of these people do a lot of damage because they leave the gatesopen, they tear down the fences. Some of these people on the highwaythey are chases, they knock down your fence, they cut down your fence. All of that is an expense that I have tobare,nobodypays us for that, he said.

Apart from property damage Guerra said cartels on the Mexican side force ranchers to abandon their properties, leaving their animals behind which can bring across fever ticks.

People that cross sometimes bring the fever tickon humans. Plus the cattle, horses and everything that comes across the river, if they haveticks on them, then Im most likely going to be quarantined,Guerra told KVEO.

The quarantine can be costly for ranchers because they cant move their cattle until they are free of ticks.

Guerras property is patrolled by an aerostat which he said gives him some comfort and security, but there have been talks those could go away.

Itsworrisomebecausetheadministrationis saying well it cost too muchor they are going tocome up withnew technologyto replace some of that, but whenis that going to happen?Instead,they are shutting these things down, with nonew technology. Well, were going to have a tsunamiof people comingacross, Guerra said.

Guerra said that ranchers concerns need to be addressed and they need to be compensated for their losses either from the state or federal government.

Ihope that this president and administration wakes up, he said We do have a crisis, they need to address it, do not sugar coat it, its a problem.

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Senate Appropriations Committee member John Hoeven, R-N.D., told Fox News on Tuesday that illegal immigrants who are given notice-to-appear tickets by federal immigration authorities are receiving court dates that are several years into the future, as the border crisis overwhelms government resources.

Hoeven told "Your World" that the flow of illegal immigrants has increased so exponentially, little is known about most of those coming across the Rio Grande river from Mexico.

He said that those illegally entering the United States from near Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico are being processed in a makeshift area under the Anzalduas International Bridge, which connects that city with Mission, Texas.

"What is happening isinsome cases they were beingprocessed under thebridge. We saw hundreds andhundreds of children and mothersand they essentially didn'tgo to the processing center," said Hoeven, who toured the border with 17 other Republican senators hosted by the border patrol union.

"They were actually -- they gointo town and like I said, are givena bus ticket and off they go.They're given a notice thatthey're supposed to appear incourt, but in many cases that'snot for three or four years," the North Dakota lawmaker continued.

Hoeven said giving illegal immigrants such a long gap between their entry and the adjudication of whether they are qualified to receive formal asylum essentially incentivizes more migrants from all over the world to come illegally.

"So think about it.They're being sent into theinterior of the country.They may have a contact, may bea family member -- or maybe eventhe cartel because the cartelsare operating in our country aswell as on the border...Of coursethey don't come backfor that."

Host Neil Cavuto noted, in that regard, that as the crisis continues, migrants from outside the so-called Central American "triangle countries" are attempting to enter the United States as well.

He said some migrants have come from as far as Eritrea, on the Red Sea in East Africa.

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During his trip, Hoeven told Cavuto, he and the other lawmakers viewed things the Biden administration "wouldn't [show]", he claimed.

"We were in the RioGrande Valley and saw the trailswhere minors were coming overthe border illegally. They're processed for 8 or 9 hours ...and sent into McAllen.They're turned over to NGO's andthey get on a bus and they go aoff to wherever in the country.

"So once they're here and they gointo the country, that's it.They're here.That's why they're coming.They know that's what's goingon."

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