
SACRAMENTO (Reuters) - Border patrol agents found 13 illegal immigrants in the back of a fake UPS van after they noticed the brown vehicle with yellow insignia trying to circumvent a highway checkpoint, the agency said on Tuesday. The agents arrested the passengers, identified as Mexican citizens without legal immigration documents, at an inland checkpoint on Friday on the dusty Highway 111, about 50 miles by car from the U.S.-Mexico border. The driver of the replica mail delivery van, a 21-year-old U.S. citizen, was also arrested for attempting to smuggle illegal immigrants, the border patrol said. "After further investigation, agents determined that the van was not a legitimate UPS van," the agency said in a release. In recent years, increasingly crafty drug and people smugglers ...
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