Laredo couple arrested for transporting illegal immigrants (Laredo Sun)

Laredo couple arrested for transporting illegal immigrants
A local couple was arrested by federal agents because they were apparently transporting a man and a woman from Ecuador, and were taking them all the way to San Antonio, Texas.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
By: Laredo Sun

LAREDO, Tx.- A local couple was arrested by federal agents because they were apparently transporting a man and a woman from Ecuador, and were taking them all the way to San Antonio, Texas.

According to the authority’s report, the detention took place at the immigration checkpoint, located on mile 29 of Interstate Highway 35, north of Laredo.

The couple was driving an Elantra car, and had another couple accompanying them on the back seat of the car. When immigration agents began to ask them questions, the woman on the backseat seemed very nervous and the driver mentioned she was his niece and he was taking her to San Antonio.

The federal officials decided to send them all to secondary revision and it was until them that they discovered that the two passengers on the backseat were illegal immigrants from Ecuador.