Customs and Border Patrol agents keep catching the same drug trafficker on the southern border whose brother happens to be a senior CBP agent, and Senate investigators want to know if the illegal immigrant has been getting special treatment.

The case involves Miguel Angel Padilla Heredia, a Mexican citizen with a history of robbery and drug smuggling who has been arrested repeatedly at the border of Arizona and Mexico. At one point, Padilla tried to claim eligibility for the deferred action policy that President Obama announced in 2012, but he was ordered deported, only to return in December 2013.

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