Afghanis Detained

Posted: Jan 20, 2012 11:56 PM
Updated: Jan 21, 2012 12:23 AM

WESLACO - Three people from Afghanistan are in Border Patrol custody in the Valley.

Border Patrol acknowledges they apprehended the three Afghanis in the Valley.

They were found in two different groups. One was found south of Mission by the River and the other two were found in a stash house north of Moorefield Road.

Samuel Freeman, a political science professor at the University of Texas Pan American and expert on U.S. Foreign Policy says it's unusual for Afghanis to show up in the Rio Grande Valley.

"They found themselves and they didn't get out of the country, they would be killed," he says.

Professor Freeman says the three could be drug runners. He says there's a huge pipeline of opium from Afghanistan to the U.S..

CHANNEL 5 NEWS has submitted a freedom of information request to find out more information on the three Afghanis detained in the Valley.
Once we get that information we will bring it to you.

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