News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Thursday, January 25, 2007

5 charged in alleged smuggling of immigrants

By Tammy Fonce-Olivas / El Paso Times
El Paso Times
Article Launched:01/25/2007 12:00:04 AM MST
Photo by Rudy Gutierrez / El Paso Times

Five people -- two exotic dancers, a construction worker and two unemployed men -- who allegedly harbored nine undocumented immigrants in a San Elizario home were arraigned Wednesday in U.S. District Court.

Each was charged with transporting or attempting to transport illegal aliens within the United States by means of transportation or otherwise.

Their arrests came after Border Patrol agents assisted the El Paso County Sheriff's Office and the Socorro Police Department in catching a man who allegedly shot at a Socorro police officer Tuesday morning.

Border Patrol agents helping with the incident discovered undocumented immigrants at a home in the 12200 block of Las Pompas Road, where the shooting suspect had temporarily barricaded himself.

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