American women arrested at California immigration checkpoint for attempting to smuggle children: 'Unbearable'

Two American women were arrested astatine a California migration checkpoint aft borderline patrol agents determined they were attempting to smuggle 2 children into the United States.

The women were arrested by Border Patrol agents assigned to the El Centro Sector connected Tuesday astatine an migration checkpoint connected Highway 86 adjacent Westmorland, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said successful a quality merchandise connected Thursday.

Authorities reported 1 pistillate was driving portion the different was successful the beforehand rider seat, and 2 small girls, ages 10 and 12, were dormant successful the back. The identities of the adults were not released.

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Two unidentified American women were arrested for alien smuggling astatine a California migration checkpoint aft Border Patrol agents recovered 2 Mexican girls, whom they did not know, successful their car. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection)

The pistillate driving initially told agents they were traveling to California from Arizona, but aboriginal told authorities they had travel to the U.S. from Mexico done the San Luis Port of Entry.

Discrepancies successful the driver's communicative prompted an Indio Station Border Patrol cause to notation their conveyance for secondary inspection, which is wherever it was discovered that the children's photos and names did not lucifer what was connected their ID cards.

During questioning, agents learned that the girls were not related to either pistillate successful the conveyance and that the operator did not cognize their mother.

The operator yet told Border Patrol agents that they had entered the U.S. done the San Luis Port of Entry.  (Getty Images)

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The small girls were yet identified arsenic unaccompanied minors from Mexico, CBP said.

Chief Patrol Agent Gregory Bovino, of the El Centro Sector, said this incidental is "how the trafficking of children starts."

"It’s astir unbearable to deliberation astir what heinous crimes await children who aren’t with their parents," Bovino said. "The borderline situation has been rife with this benignant of enactment implicit the past respective years, however, the absorption has present shifted, and dense sentences await smugglers who wounded kids."

US Border Patrol agents discovered 2 Mexican girls, ages 10 and 12, were wrong the car with the 2 American women, whom they did not know. (REUTERS, File)

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Both big women person been charged with alien smuggling and their conveyance was seized arsenic evidence.