Authorities: 90 immigrants found in stash house

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Brownsville stash house

Posted: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 9:26 am | Updated: 9:32 am, Tue Feb 26, 2013.
By Mark Reagan The Brownsville Herald

U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended 90 undocumented immigrants near the 1200 block of Squaw Valley Monday afternoon

The apprehensions were made after the Brownsville Police Department tipped them off to a possible stash house, Border Patrol spokesman Henry Mendiola said.

There was a total of 55 people at the actual apartment complex and an additional 35 in the surrounding area in some brush in the back, he said.

Homeland Security Investigation is working the case with Border Patrol and no smuggling suspects are in custody.

The case broke late Monday afternoon, Mendiola said, adding that agents worked well into the night.
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