Sisters Get 8 Years for Slavery Scheme
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Two sisters were sentenced to eight years in federal prison for enslaving several Mexicans and forcing them to beg for money in the U.S. El Paso residents Guadalupe Lozano, 27, and Teresa Lozano, 34, were convicted of involuntary servitude as well as smuggling and extortion, officials said. The defendants had forced numerous Mexicans, including three deaf-mutes, to beg for money and sell trinkets from 1992 to 1998.
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