India, Feb. 25 -- U.S. security officials have arrested 8 members of an organization smuggling hundreds of illegal migrants from South and Central America into the United States via the southern border.
A grand jury in Las Cruces, New Mexico, returned an indictment against 14 members of the gang for conspiracy to transport, harbor, and bring in illegal aliens to the United States. Eight of those charged were arrested, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
Supervisory Official Antoinette T. Bacon of the Justice Department's Criminal Division said the aliens were smuggled into the United States dangerously, resulting in the death of one of them. "The Justice Department worked with our partners at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to ...