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By Sergio Chapa
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at 6:02 p.m.

Read more: Local, Crime, Stash House, Human Smuggling, Illegal Immigration, Illegal Immigrants, Brownsville, Cameron County, Rio Grande Valley, Texas, Mexico

Two men remain behind bars after federal authorities allegedly caught them taking 22 illegal immigrants to a stash house in Brownsville.

U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents charged Edgar Villanueva-Sanchez and Apolinar Rocha-Morales with human smuggling charges on Monday.

Few details were available in the case but a criminal complaint revealed that the two men were caught transporting 22 illegal immigrants in a car.

Investigators wrote that the two men picked up the immigrants at the Rio Grande and were on their way to a stash house in Brownsville when they were arrested.

Villanueva-Sanchez and Rocha-Morales both appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ronald Morgan in Brownsville on Tuesday morning where they were denied bond.

Morgan ordered that two Honduran immigrants named Kevin Godin Ortega-Espinoza and Marlon Gerardo Ramirez-Mancia be held as witnesses in the cases.

 

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Texans as Independent and Strong

Posted by Chris Illegall , Socialist State of kaliforneeea - Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 7:32 p.m.

The Yellow Rose of Texas..la la la,.. How can you Texans allow this crap to go on right under your noses. Oh, well, another so called strong independent type stereotype proves to be BALONEY.

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