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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.

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Man caught near Yuma sentenced for smuggling

BY NICOLE E. SQUIBBS, SUN STAFF WRITER

March 21, 2007 - 12:14AM

A U.S. District Judge sentenced a Mexican man to seven years in prison and three years of supervised release for smuggling illegal immigrants near Yuma.

Cristino Lopez-Martinez, 21, was found guilty by a federal jury on Nov. 16, 2006, of conspiracy to bring in illegal aliens, bringing aliens to the U.S. and bringing aliens to the U.S. for profit and re-entry after deportation, according to a U.S. Attorney District of Arizona news release.

Lopez-Martinez and his two co-defendants allegedly guided a group of 22 illegal immigrants into the U.S. on foot in September 2005 in temperatures in excess of 100 degrees. The immigrants did not have enough food or water for the three-day hike, and on the third day, all of them ran out of water, the release said.

A young mother with two young daughters collapsed and the mother died in the desert. The group walked more than 50 miles and was then abandoned by the smugglers, according to the release.

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