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Border Patrol Rescues Toddler, Infant in Arizona Desert

August 27, 2022
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A toddler and an infant were recently rescued in western Arizona’s Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument after they were abandoned by illegal immigrant smugglers. On Thursday, an illegal immigrant who was among a group of arrested border crossers alerted border patrol regarding the children’s location. An agent then discovered a 4-month-old infant and a crying…

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European Police Arrest 39 in Crackdown on Migrant Smuggling Gang

July 9, 2022
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THE HAGUE—Police in five European countries have arrested 39 people in a major cross-border operation targeting an Iraqi-Kurdish gang which smuggled migrants across the Channel to Britain, the EU’s law enforcement agency Europol said on Wednesday. Europol said the network could have smuggled as many as 10,000 illegal migrants to Britain over the past year…

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Smuggler Sentenced to Prison for Ramming 4 Border Patrol Agents With Car

February 10, 2022
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SAN DIEGO—A man who injured several Border Patrol agents by ramming their vehicles on a state highway near Jamul while he was smuggling 10 migrants has been sentenced to more than three years in federal prison, prosecutors said on Feb. 9. Juan Francisco Sanchez-Campos, 24, of Phoenix, pleaded guilty to speeding through a Border Patrol…

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1 Dead Off San Diego Coast in Apparent Smuggling Attempt

May 21, 2021
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SAN DIEGO—One person was killed and eight were injured Thursday in an apparent migrant smuggling attempt off San Diego’s tony La Jolla coast, authorities said. Lifeguards rescued 10 people in what the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department called “rough water conditions,” including eight who were hospitalized. Some of the migrants wore life vests. One person who…

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