A Laredo man led Texas DPS troopers on a wild chase along I-35 before being tased and arrested — with six undocumented migrants packed inside his vehicle.
On May 13, 2026, Texas Department of Public Safety troopers pursued a vehicle northbound on Interstate 35 near Laredo, Texas. The chase ended near Exit 2-A in north Laredo when the driver — identified as Samuel Infante — bailed from the car and fled on foot into nearby brush. A passenger also ran. One suspect jumped a perimeter fence before a trooper deployed a Taser and brought him down. Infante was taken into custody. Troopers then discovered six undocumented migrants inside the vehicle, who were turned over to U.S. Border Patrol. The entire incident was captured on trooper dashcam video.
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WHAT HAPPENED
DPS initiated the pursuit after identifying the vehicle as a suspected smuggling operation along one of Texas’s most heavily trafficked border corridors. Infante, a Laredo resident, chose to run rather than pull over — putting other drivers, his passengers, and law enforcement at serious risk during the chase. When the vehicle finally stopped near the northern edge of Laredo, Infante and another individual fled into the brush in a last-ditch attempt to escape. They didn’t make it far.
One suspect cleared a fence before a trooper’s Taser ended the foot chase. Infante was apprehended and now faces charges related to human smuggling. The six undocumented migrants found inside the vehicle — transported across the border like cargo — were processed by U.S. Border Patrol agents on scene.
The dashcam footage, reviewed by KGNS-TV in Laredo, shows the chase unfolding in real time — a speeding vehicle, a fleeing suspect, and troopers doing exactly what the job demands: pursuing, confronting, and capturing. No hesitation. No politics. Just law enforcement doing its job.
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WHY THIS MATTERS
Human smuggling isn’t a victimless crime — and it isn’t a humanitarian effort. Smugglers like Infante pack human beings into vehicles, charge thousands of dollars per person, and run them across the border through dangerous terrain and high-speed highway chases. The people in those vehicles are not passengers. They are product. They are leverage. And when law enforcement gets close, smugglers don’t hesitate to abandon them or put them at risk.
This is what YEARS of open-border policy has created. A shadow economy built on human misery, operating in broad daylight on Texas highways. These same politicians who refused to secure the border, who gutted interior enforcement, who celebrated “pathways” and “compassion” — they OWN this. Every smuggling operation that runs through Laredo, every chase on I-35, every person treated like freight is a direct consequence of the DELIBERATE DESTRUCTION of border security under the previous administration.
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THE BIGGER PICTURE
The Laredo sector is one of the busiest smuggling corridors in North America. I-35 is a pipeline — not just for drugs, but for human beings. While working Americans go about their lives, criminal networks are running industrial-scale operations just miles from the border. And for years, they operated with near-total impunity because enforcement was politically discouraged at every level. That’s changing under President Trump. ICE is unleashed. DPS is backed. Border Patrol has the resources and the mandate. But the pipeline doesn’t close overnight — and every arrest like this one is a reminder of how much work is left to do.
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OUR TAKE
Samuel Infante made a choice. He chose to run a smuggling operation. He chose to flee from law enforcement. He chose to endanger six lives and everyone else on that highway. And Texas DPS chose to chase him down, tase him out of the brush, and hand him to the courts. That’s how it’s supposed to work. That’s the border security we were promised and are finally getting. The courts need to back up our troopers with a sentence that sends a message: if you run human beings through Texas, you will lose your freedom.
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