Thread: Pair charged after death of teenage immigrant

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Posted on Thu, Jul. 20, 2006



Pair charged after death of teenage immigrant


Associated Press

EL PASO, Texas - An El Paso man and a Mexican woman have been indicted on federal immigrant smuggling charges related to the April death of a 14-year-old Salvadoran girl, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Thursday.

Jose Alfredo Sifuentes-Sandoval of El Paso was indicted by a grand jury Wednesday on one count each of conspiracy to smuggle aliens, encouragement and inducement of aliens to enter resulting in death, harboring aliens resulting in death, aggravated identity theft, and three counts of alien smuggling for profit. Amalia Baquera of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, was indicted on the conspiracy charge.

Gonzales made the announcement during a visit to El Paso to tour the international border and meet with local officials about immigration issues.

Federal prosecutors allege that Sifuentes-Sandoval, who has been jailed since his June 9 arrest, smuggled 14-year-old Leybi Lorena Vigil Claros into the U.S. through Fabens, Texas, in April and failed to get her medical help when she became gravely ill.

According to the indictment, Sifuentes-Sandoval and Baquera, who has not been arrested, worked together in a smuggling operation that included the sale of false identification papers in Mexico.

Authorities said Leybi, who died when a blood clot traveled to her lungs, was trying to get to Virginia, where her mother has been living legally for several years.






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I agree with this action.

Of course along with the pair who did the smuggling, they need to charge the PResident, the Congress, and Mr. Gonzales, who are just as complicit in this travesty as anyone else.

Gonzales made the announcement during a visit to El Paso to tour the international border and meet with local officials about immigration issues.

The word is Gonzales was there to push President Bush's illegal immigration reform program.