71 Illegal Immigrants Found in Texas ‘Stash House’ Near Border: Border Patrol

Military fencing can be seen along the Rio Grande in Laredo, Texas. The opposite side of the river is Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, on Nov. 18, 2018. Thomas Watkins/AFP via Getty Images

Agents with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection found 71 illegal immigrants packed into a single house near the U.S.–Mexico border in Pharr, Texas.

In a news release from the agency on Feb. 24, agents disrupted what they described as a “human smuggling stash house operating in the Rio Grande Valley.”