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Mexican man 'smuggled 85 migrants in tractor trailer through the US-Mexico border region to settle $8,000 debt owed for his OWN illegal crossing'

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]

José Luis Vega-Arzate told a Texas court last Friday he was guilty of smuggling 85 undocumented migrants who were locked in a tractor trailer

The Mexico native reached an agreement to drive the truck in Texas with smugglers to settle his $8,000 smuggling debt

The 31-year-old approached a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint north of Laredo on May 11 when he was stopped for a routine inspection

A sniffer dog detected the presence of humans in the cargo container before the border agents discovered the migrants inside

Vega-Arzate is scheduled to appear in court October 20 and could be sentenced up to 20 years in prison

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Posted by: Skidmark 2022-07-27

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