100 immigrants found in Phoenix home
Associated Press
Mar. 20, 2007 02:54 PM

One hundred illegal immigrants were discovered in a house in west Phoenix after police received a complaint that the residence might be a stash house for smugglers.

Lauren Mack, a spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, says nearly all the immigrants were from Mexico and that many of them have agreed to return to their home country.

Mack says no known smugglers were identified among the immigrants.

She says the residence was believed to be a "drop house." Drop houses are where smugglers typically hide immigrants while payment and travel arrangements are made before would-be illegal workers are sent elsewhere.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were called to the scene by Phoenix police.


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