CBP officer allegedly harbored unauthorized immigrant who was also his girlfriend and niece

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection serviceman is facing national transgression charges implicit allegations helium harbored an migrant who officials accidental is successful the state illegally and is besides the officer's woman and niece.

The Justice Department alleges that CBP serviceman and supervisor Andres Wilkinson was surviving successful Laredo, Texas, with a pistillate who had overstayed her visa and is present successful the U.S. illegally. The pistillate entered the U.S. connected a impermanent visa successful August 2023, according to the transgression ailment filed earlier this month. 

Wilkinson allegedly provided her "financial support, including housing, recognition cards, assistance with fiscal obligations and entree to vehicle," the Justice Department said. The transgression ailment states they traveled unneurotic done Border Patrol checkpoints adjacent the Texas border.

The Justice Department said Wilkinson was "aware of her unlawful migration presumption yet maintained a romanticist narration with her."

According to the complaint, officials collected accusation "indicating" that the pistillate is really Wilkinson's niece, and that she's joined to different man. But the ailment besides says that her husband, who had filed a greenish paper exertion with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services connected her behalf successful January 2024, canceled the petition successful April 2025. A period later, the CBP Office of Professional Responsibility observed Wilkinson, the pistillate and her girl unneurotic and investigated their narration for months.

CBP OPR investigators recovered that the pistillate was the girl of a antheral named J. Santos Garcia-Moreno, whom Wilkinson had listed arsenic his member successful his 2023 inheritance investigation. And erstwhile CBP OPR detained the pistillate successful February 2026, she admitted she had been surviving with Wilkinson since August 2024. 

CBS News reached retired to an lawyer listed arsenic Wilkinson's lawyer and has yet to perceive back. CBP did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

If convicted, Wilkinson, 52, could look up to 10 years successful situation and perchance a $250,000 fine, the Justice Department said. He made an archetypal quality and remains successful custody pending a detention proceeding scheduled for Friday, officials said.

Wilkinson has been with CBP for astir 25 years and was promoted successful 2021 to a supervisory role, wherever his duties included overseeing the enforcement of migration laws, according to the Justice Department.