Pakistani Trafficker in Brazil Helped Illegal Alien’s Vast Smuggling Ring Bring Middle Easterners into U.S.

In a significant case ignored by the establishment media an illegal immigrant form Honduras has been sentenced to a decade in prison for running a massive years long alien smuggling operation that “facilitated the illegal movement of Middle Easterners into the United States,” according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). The defendant’s “actions put our national security at risk,” the top federal prosecutor overseeing the case in the western district of Texas confirms. While mainstream media coverage focuses exclusively on hard working migrants cruelly deported in nationwide Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids, the agency is taking serious criminals off the streets. That part, however, is not receiving any coverage even though the Trump administration is making the information readily available on various Department of Homeland Security (DHS) websites.

In this important case, Enil Edil Mejia-Zuniga, a 34-year-old illegal immigrant from Honduras, was the leader of what federal authorities call “a massive alien smuggling conspiracy that panned three years and involved thousands of aliens from over 11 different countries.” A 33-year-old Mexican illegal immigrant and two other Honduran migrants, ages 26 and 32, worked for Mejia-Zuniga and have also been criminally charged. A final defendant is in custody in Mexico pending an extradition request from the United States. The group made millions of dollars off the migrants they helped smuggle into the U.S., authorities confirm, adding that the case represents the epitome of the ruthless and sophisticated criminal organizations that exploit our borders for personal financial gain. “For more than three years, these individuals operated a transnational smuggling ring driven by greed, moving illegal aliens from 11 countries in blatant disregard of the law,” said Special Agent in Charge Craig Larrabee of ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in San Antonio, Texas. “Human smuggling undermines the security of our borders and disrupts lawful immigration processes.”

The DOJ’s announcement includes several pictures of Mejia-Zuniga posing with rifles and cash. Court documents reveal that from November 2020 through March 2023, the Mejia-Zuniga alien smuggling organization (ASO) brought in migrants from Afghanistan, Yemen, Egypt, India, Pakistan, and Colombia, through Eagle Pass, Texas. Aliens primarily contracted with a Pakistani smuggler based in Brazil to be transported to the United States. The Brazilian-based associate worked with the San Antio-based Mejia-Zuniga to facilitate travel of the illegal immigrants from South America to the United States. Mejia-Zuniga directed operations of the ASO and paid drivers, armed “coyotes,” and stash house operators. The Honduran man admitted to smuggling between 2,500 to 3,000 aliens into the United States in just two years. His business charged between $6,500 to $12,000 per alien. Mejia-Zuniga said he made $30,000 for every ten illegal aliens who made it to the Rio Grande River and another $30,000 if those ten illegal aliens made it to San Antonio. Evidence gathered by the feds during their investigation includes wire transfers, customer ledgers, foreign identification documents and photos of the entire Mejia-Zuniga clan with firearms.

This important yet unreported case was cracked under Operation Take Back America, a national plan launched in March to repel the damages of the Biden administration’s disastrous open border policies by controlling illegal immigration, eliminating drug cartels such as Jalisco New Generation, Sinaloa, Michoacan and Los Zetas as well as other transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) like Tren de Aragua and the famously violent Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13). Thousands of illegal immigrants throughout the country have been charged with serious crimes under Operation Take Back America and the initiative has led to the apprehension of countless others arrested for illegally reentering the U.S. who already had felony convictions involving narcotics, firearms, and sexual offenses. Additionally, federal authorities have seized enormous amounts of illicit drugs, including more than 44 million fentanyl pills and nearly 70,000 pounds of methamphetamine.

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