The United States National Security Department (DHS) arrested 72 migrants who, as reported on Tuesday, were in irregular immigration situation, in a nightclub “run by an alleged member of the Los Zetas poster” in the Charleston area, in the state of South Carolina.
The DHS, with the collaboration of the Customs Immigration and Control Service (ICE), arrested almost a hundred people with “previous serious crimes” last Sunday and delivered six minors to US social services.
The arrests are still being processed and have only confirmed that one of those arrested, Sergio Joel Galo-Baca, has a history. It is originally from Honduras and on it weighs a red notification of the active interpol by homicide in its country.
Before the operation, the ICE received information that at the El Alamo bar “it was trafficked with weapons, narcotics and people.” In fact, the agents seized “cash, narcotics and weapons.”
The Deputy Secretary of the Agency, Tricia McLaughlin, celebrated in a statement the “successful operation” in which arrests and dismantling of a club where it was allegedly trafficked.
“Under the president, Donald Trump, and the secretary of the DHS, Kristi Noem, the fugitives and the offenders of the law are on notice,” said McLaughlin.
Los Zetas, now formally recognized as a Northeast Cartel (CDN), were designated as a terrorist organization by the Trump administration in February 2025.
In addition, they were the military arm of the Gulf Cartel, but they split from the organization, with which they maintained a bloody war in 2010 for the control of the northeast of Mexico, and achieved the dominance of drug trafficking in much of the country. In 2016, the Zetas fractured and gave rise to the CDN.
On his first day of mandate, Trump appointed the CDN, the Sinaloa Cartel (CDS), the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG), to the Gulf Cartel (CDG), the new Michoacan family (LNFM) and already united cartels (CU) as drug trafficking organizations indicated as terrorists.