SAN ANTONIO, Texas, May 14 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Federal Bureau of Investigation San Antonio Field Office issued the following press release:

SAN ANTONIO - Federal prosecutors in the Western District of Texas filed 221 new immigration and immigration-related criminal cases from April 10 to April 16, announced U.S. Attorney Justin R. Simmons. Charges were brought against human smugglers and illegal aliens with past convictions for kidnapping, numerous DWIs, theft, violent crime, and multiple prior removals.

Among the new cases,U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended an illegal alien whom they had observed running north from the U.S.-Mexico border in the El Paso area. A criminal complaint alleges that one of the agents observed ...