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Border Patrol Holds Mexican Official

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From Times Wire Reports

The U.S. Border Patrol has arrested a Mexican immigration official caught traveling in the United States with a group of undocumented migrants, and may charge him with human smuggling, U.S. officials said.

Immigration agent Francisco Javier Gutierrez, 43, was stopped Sunday at a checkpoint near Alamogordo, N.M., about 80 miles north of the border, said Doug Mosier, a spokesman for the Border Patrol in El Paso.

He was traveling with three Mexican citizens believed to have sneaked into the United States, Mosier said.

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