Man pleads guilty to smuggling migrants into California through sewer pipes

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Kevin Noe Campos Villa, a 20-year-old from Tijuana, Mexico, has pleaded guilty to smuggling migrants across the U.S. border by way of sewer tunnels.

A 20-year-old Mexico resident has pleaded guilty to smuggling seven migrants into the U.S. illegally through sewer pipes in southern California, federal prosecutors say. Kevin Noe Campos Villa now faces a potential 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine following his arrest in January, during which several of the migrants he was escorting had to be rescued from the Tijuana River by San Diego lifeguards, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California.

' HOUSE DEMOCRAT BLAMES REPUBLICANS IN WAKE OF VIRAL VIDEO OF MIGRANTS STORMING US BORDER IN TEXAS 'According to court records, two of the unauthorized immigrants who were rescued stated that they feared for their lives when crossing the river because they did not know how to swim,' the office added. 'One stated that he was swept away by the river’s current and was able to grab and hold onto a tree branch until his rescue.

 

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