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Two US Marines Arrested for Migrant Trafficking | |
2019-07-11 | |
Byron Darnell Law II and David Javier Salazar-Quintero were arrested on July 3 along the Mexican border in Jacumba, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, the document said. They were charged with having transported three undocumented The three Mexican nationals seated in the back of the Marines' vehicle were prepared to pay $8,000 "to be smuggled into the United States," although it is unclear to whom they would have paid the money. The two Marines, who were stationed at Camp Pendleton near San Diego, have been accused of "knowingly" transporting the During their hearings, both men accused each other of responsibility in the matter: Law said that Salazar received directions to the pickup location via a cell phone, while Salazar said that Law originally got him involved with smuggling. Salazar also said he had made four other smuggling trips to Jacumba. Law and Salazar were formally charged Monday, according to The Washington Post. The office of the attorney general did not respond to AFP's request for comment. "We continue to cooperate fully with the investigative efforts into this matter," Marine front man First Lieutenant Cameron Edinburgh told Marine Corps Times. This is not the first case of US military members helping The US Border Patrol apprehended nearly 700,000 people illegally crossing into the United States from October to June, 140 percent higher than during the same period a year earlier. | |
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