8 Held Near U.S. Border on Document Charges
From Times Wire Reports
Eight people from Armenia, Iran and Iraq were detained near the U.S. border on charges that they might have entered Mexico with false documents, authorities said.
Federal agents and officials staged a raid of the Hotel Continental Mexicali, across the border from Calexico, Calif., forcing everyone inside to prove they were in Mexico legally.
The six men and two women were carrying documents that may have been false.
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