Mexican national pleads guilty to trafficking dozens of migrants to pay his own smuggling fee
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Border Patrol agents arrested a Mexican national in May who was caught trying to smuggle 85 migrants in a trailer through a checkpoint in Laredo, Texas.
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He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport noncitizens for financial gain last week and faces up to 20 years in prison when he is sentenced in October.
Vega-Arzate pulled into the border patrol checkpoint on May 11 and "displayed nervous behavior and had trouble shifting gears," authorities said.
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