Thread: TX: 2 truck drivers charged with smuggling migrants

2 truck drivers charged with smuggling migrants
By Daniel Borunda / El Paso Times
El Paso Times
Article Launched:03/24/2007 12:00:00 AM MDT

Two truckers were arrested and a "drop house" was raided in immigrant smuggling cases in the El Paso area this week, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman said on Friday.
On Wednesday morning, the Border Enforcement Security Task Force, or BEST, stopped two 18-wheelers on Interstate 10 near Vado after agents spotted the drivers letting two men into one cab and another man into the other cab at a truck stop, ICE spokeswoman Leticia Zamarripa said.

The three immigrants, found hiding in the sleeper sections, told investigators they each paid $1,800 to be smuggled to Los Angeles. Truck drivers Julio Cesar Cazabal Gutierrez, 34, and Javier Nolasco Sanchez, 26, were arrested on charges of conspiracy to transport undocumented aliens, which is punishable by up to five years in prison.

On Tuesday, ICE agents discovered 16 immigrants in an apartment in the 1100 block of Seventh Street in El Paso's Segundo Barrio, officials said. Agents arrested alleged smugglers Iris Guereca, 20, of El Paso, and Rene Raul Taylor Lopez, 20, and Francisco Alejandro Lopez Vasquez, 21, who are Mexican citizens in the U.S. illegally.

The immigrants were from the Mexico City area and paid $1,500 to $2,000 to be taken to California, Wisconsin and other states, officials said.

Most of the immigrants were returned to Mexico.


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Most were returned?

I hope the feds took the 18 wheelers.

"Most were returned"? We're talking El Paso, right?

Well, Well, Well, Motels on wheels for illegals, this is only the begining if they let trucks from Mexico in our country, They can put alot of illegals in one of these big rigs!!!