ACustoms and Border Protection supervisorhas been arrested and charged with harboring an undocumented immigrant he was in a romantic relationship with, authorities said.
Supervisory CBP Officer Andres Wilkinson, 52, was living in Laredo, Texas, with a woman who overstayed her travel visa and "provided financial support" to the woman, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas.
Wilkinson had worked for CBP since 2001 and was promoted to a supervisory position in 2021, prosecutors said. If convicted, he could face up to 10 years in federal prison and up to a $250,000 fine. An attorney representing Wilkinson didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. CBP also did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
According to astatementfrom the U.S. Attorney's Office and a criminal complaint viewed by USA TODAY, the CBP Office of Professional Responsibility, which handles allegations of wrongdoing by its officers, learned in April 2025 that the undocumented woman was living with Wilkinson and that he was aware of her immigration status.
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The woman entered the United States in August 2023 and was admitted as a tourist to visit San Antonio, and after that had multiple entries into the country, according to a criminal complaint against Wilkinson. The last entry was granted for tourism to Eagle Pass, Texas, and expired in March 2025. In late 2023, she was living with her husband, who later filed a petition for her to become a resident, the complaint said. However, that petition was later withdrawn in 2025, the complaint said.
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The woman lived with Wilkinson since 2024, prosecutors said. For several months in 2025, the Office of Professional Responsibility monitored the woman living with Wilkinson and her minor child, prosecutors said. She used vehicles registered to Wilkinson and he provided her with credit cards, according to the complaint. Wilkinson also knowingly drove her through U.S. Border Patrol checkpoints, prosecutors said.
OPR accessed a law enforcement database "indicating" that the woman is Wilkinson's niece; she is the daughter of a man Wilkinson listed on a background investigation as his brother. She also acknowledged to investigators that she "had been living with her uncle," the criminal complaint said. USA TODAY has reached out to attorneys for Wilkinson and the woman to clarify their relationship.
"The complaint further alleges that Wilkinson was aware of her unlawful immigration status yet maintained a romantic relationship with her," the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a statement.
The case was investigated as part of the Trump administration's "Operation Take Back America" to stop illegal immigration, drug cartels and violent crime, prosecutors said.
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