Suspect tells agents about smuggling 800 into US
Mike Gallagher, Albuquerque Journal, N.M.
Sun, March 14, 2021,
Mar. 14—Byron Estuardo Arana-Hernandez, an asylum-seeker from El Salvador, had the right to remain silent, but according to court records he just couldn't shut up when he was stopped by Border Patrol agents in January on the state highway between Deming and Hatch in southern New Mexico.
In the back of the maroon Honda Civic 25-year-old Arana was driving were five immigrants who had entered the U.S. illegally, and five more were in a black Chevrolet Silverado following the Honda. The driver of the second vehicle was Arana's mother, Lorena Luz Arana-Hernandez.
She told Border Patrol agents she had just picked up the five men on the side of the road and was giving them a ride. She insisted they were not paying her.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/suspect-tells-agents-smuggling-800-140500534.html
