The Region - News from Aug. 16, 1985
The Border Patrol broke up a ring suspected of smuggling up to 200 illegal alien workers a week from Tijuana through Southern California to a squalid farm labor camp near Fresno. Immigration and Naturalization Service Regional Commissioner Harold Ezell said five people were arrested on a federal complaint charging 11 people with conspiracy. In addition 88 illegal aliens were taken into custody at the camp in rural Sanger. People who made contact with smugglers at a Tijuana restaurant paid up to $450 each to be moved across the border to safe houses in San Ysidro and Santa Ana before being taken to the camp, he said.
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