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 News from Around the Americas | October 2006 
10 Smuggled Immigrants Found in Boxcar
 AP
Ten illegal immigrants were returned to Mexico after agents with the U.S. Border Patrol found them in a train's boxcar.
The immigrants were found Wednesday night aboard a Union Pacific train and voluntarily returned to their home country, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The train was traveling west near Cochise, about 80 miles east of Tucson.
The group hired a smuggler in Juarez, Mexico, south of El Paso, Texas, the agency said in a statement. The smuggler took them to a train bound for Phoenix.
Before they were returned to Mexico, the immigrants were medically evaluated because a pregnant woman among them had complained about the hot temperature in the boxcar, the agency said.
Based on information they received from the group, agents found and arrested the suspected smuggler. No additional details about the arrest were provided. |
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