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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.

Friday, March 23, 2007

Yuma woman sentenced for child smuggling

FROM STAFF REPORTS

March 22, 2007 - 11:04PM

A Yuma woman was sentenced this week to 14 months in prison for trying to smuggle a young boy into the United States.

Leticia Adelina Ortiz, 24, pleaded guilty on Dec. 5, 2006, to conspiracy to transport an illegal alien, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Arizona.

According to the release, Ortiz admitted to attempting to bring the 5-year-old boy through the Mariposa Port of Entry in Nogales by using the birth certificate of her own son. She said she was doing this as a favor to the boy's mother.

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