Posted on 06/19/2025 12:13:24 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
In yet another story that demonstrates just how deeply illegal-alien criminals or their allies have penetrated the U.S. military, a federal judge sentenced a third soldier to prison for human trafficking.
Enrique Jauregui, 26, will go to prison for almost three years and pay a hefty fine for his crimes. Two co-defendants were sentenced in May. All were stationed at Fort Hood in Texas.
The sentencing follows the arrest in April of 114 illegal aliens at an unlawful nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where soldiers from nearby Fort Carson provided security.
Jauregui “organized a smuggling event in 2024, recruiting fellow soldiers Angel Palma, 21, and Emilio Mendoza-Lopez, 22,” Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported:
Jauregui provided Palma and Mendoza-Lopez with the location information to pick up illegal aliens to smuggle, supported them with encouraging messages and instructions, and intended to pay the two co-conspirators after they dropped off the illegal aliens.
Last year, on November 27, Palma and Mendoza-Lopez drove for some eight hours to pick up three illegals in Presidio, Texas, a border town due west of San Antonio. The smugglers led Border Patrol agents on a high-speed chase and crashed into a Border Patrol vehicle, which injured the agent driving it.
The two smugglers and three illegals fled. Agents captured all but Palma, whom they later tracked to a hotel in Odessa and arrested.
In March, Jauregui and Palma pleaded guilty to one count of aiding and abetting the transportation of illegal aliens for financial gain. Mendoza-Lopez pleaded guilty to the same charge in January. Sentenced on May 24, Palma and Mendoza-Lopez landed 24 months in prison with three years supervised release. Jauregui will serve 33 months and cough up $10,000.
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I’d say it’s OBVIOUS at this point those soldiers are spies for the drug cartels.
The military has always had an element of opportunistic officers and enlisted personnel. That’s why they created Military Police.
Move along, nothing to see here, but young, dumb, low paid soldiers, doing dumb things.
Did they get them across the border, or just pick them up near San Antonio?
It’s not smuggling if just transporting an illegal around the US.
Of course and no doubt there are a lot more.
ANY foreign nationals should not be in our military.
I don’t know of their immigration status or history, but leadership needs to be a lot more attentive to some people.
“Discrimination” be damned.
It should be LIFE in prison.
Democrats have controlled our military for way too long. They have allowed criminals and America-last enemies to infiltrate their ranks.
May not be ‘spies’, but they are profiting by smuggling aliens. Can’t get death for that but DD and full asset forfeiture is in order. Will see if Army has the balls.
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