Harlingen, in south texas, and he needed money to pay the smugglers. he didn t tell anybody that he was making that trip. so it was very surprising. we were not expecting that. i said to him, if you re going to make the next move right away, don t put yourself on any dangers. i d rather you be caught than anything happen to you. and he told me to also to send him $300 because he ran out of money, which that s what they wanted to move him to houston. he got a name and a phone number and a method of payment. the only thing i had to do was send him the money and my hopes were that he will call me from houston and tell me, i m here. eliseo s brother byron was 18 years old. he called him his little brother always.
Him. during this phone conversation, he also told him the composition of the group. he said there would be four women and seven men. and we found that quite interesting, that he would have this kind of information because it was not public information. we now know that this memo that eliseo was talking to was guillermo madrigal ballesteros, one of our smugglers, one of the main operators of this smuggling operation. we spoke to two witnesses, a couple of young girls. they saw guillermo. they remember seeing byron and some of the other individuals that were part of the denison 11. verizon say neversettle. t-mobile agrees.
my brother byron, he asked me several times to help him to come to the u.s. and the reason we always denied it was that, you know, we were scared of something, you know, could have happened, would have happened to him. and we didn t want him to go through that. we wanted him to stay with our parents and just avoid all of that. we are a young country. we are the country of immigrants. our relatives, our grandparents, great grandparents all dreamed of a better life coming to america. that s what these people are doing. they cannot figure out a way to get in legally. they want to work and they want the same things we do. they would have people loaded at the siding nearest to the checkpoint and then arranging for the people to be removed at the next siding north of the checkpoint.
Used for smuggling the denison 11 aliens. [ speaking a foreign language ] in this stash house in harlingen, texas, is where johanna and lideny first met byron and the denison 11. that s where byron called eliseo for the final ransom money to get him to the checkpoint and into houston, texas. [ speaking a foreign language ]
Brother that he was waiting for and how he was afraid that one of those bodies was going to be his brother. my brother byron was the last one in the family, the only one living in the house with my parents. he was taking care of them. the smugglers will sometimes have recruiters who can go out and look for people, especially when you have people that are looking like they re lost. someone recruited the young byron in guatemala and helped bring him all the way to the texas border to the harlingen area in the united states. coyotes have absolute power over the people they traffic and many coyotes continue to extort money from relatives even when the person has gotten into the united states. eliseo told us that he was living in new york when his brother called him when his younger brother called him to tell him that he was in