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Agents find illegal aliens inside hay Jan 5, 2005 A tunnel carved out of a truckload of hay covered a number of aliens that U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended. Photo by Jacob Lopez U.S. Border Patrol agents on Monday arrested 46 illegal immigrants hiding within secret compartments inside hay bales on two tractor-trailers. The arrests, which took place within a nine-hour span at a Border Patrol checkpoint along Interstate 8, is the first significant one of the New Year and had all the markings of "a large-scale, organized, commercial human smuggling operation," said Joe Brigman, spokesman for the Border Patrol's Yuma sector. All of the illegal immigrants admitted they each paid approximately $2,000 to be smuggled to various locations throughout the United States, Brigman said. The drivers of the trucks, both Mexican men legally residing in the United States, have each been charged with felony smuggling, Brigman said. The illegal immigrants were hiding inside makeshift plywood compartments within the bales of hay and were discovered when Border Patrol canines detected human scent, he said. "This is the length that they're going to try to transport these people away from Yuma," Brigman said, adding the case is under investigation. Brigman said no weapons or drugs were found among the illegal immigrants arrested. More than 98,000 arrests were made in the Yuma sector in 2004 alone. "There are no indications the number of arrests will decline" this year, Brigman said. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> DonorsChoose. A simple way to provide underprivileged children resources often lacking in public schools. Fund a student project in NYC/NC today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/EHLuJD/.WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
