Federal prosecutors file 450 immigration cases across West Texas district

Federal prosecutors in the Western District of Texas filed 450 immigration and immigration-related criminal cases from June 12 through June 25, a stretch that reached from repeat illegal-reentry arrests to alleged human smuggling, DWI histories, violent crimes, sex crimes against children and theft.

The Western District serves more than 7 million residents, and the Del Rio Sector covers 245 miles of the Rio Grande and Lake Amistad across 53,063 square miles of Texas.

The district’s examples were centered largely near Eagle Pass. Jose Gilberto Padilla-Yepez was arrested near Eagle Pass and charged with illegal re-entry after prosecutors alleged he had been deported four times and had a 1991 homicide conviction along with convictions for burglary, theft, robbery, assault, sexual assault and kidnapping. Juan Antonio Gonzalez Escamilla was also arrested near Eagle Pass and charged with illegal re-entry after a January conviction for the same offense and a sixth deportation immediately afterward.

Other cases in the same roundup showed the same pattern of repeated removals. Martin Flores-Romero was arrested near Eagle Pass on June 19 and charged with illegal re-entry after being deported for the second time in December 2025. Pedro Euceda-Aguero was arrested near Eagle Pass on June 19 and charged with illegal re-entry after being removed for the fourth time in December 2022. Francisco Javier Perez-Solis was charged in San Antonio after being encountered at the Atascosa County Jail in Jourdanton following an assault arrest.

Under interim U.S. Attorney Justin R. Simmons, whose appointment took effect May 30, 2025, the same office filed 254 new immigration and immigration-related criminal cases from June 5 through June 11, and 253 in a similar week last year. It has also filed more than 900 immigration-related cases since Jan. 20 during one enforcement push and 1,709 cases over a six-week government shutdown period.