Illegal immigrants tried to cross border as U.S. Marines

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Illegal immigrants tried to cross border as U.S. Marines



However, the latest approach may be the most novel. Thirteen Mexican nationals dressed themselves in U.S. Marine uniforms in an attempt to sneak across the border, according to news reports.

The men were riding in a fake military van with U.S. government license plates – later determined to have been stolen – before they were apprehended by Border Patrol agents at a checkpoint near Campo on March 14, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Two U.S. citizens in the van were also taken into custody.

After the men in the suspicious van were questioned, agents determined that the vehicle's driverand its front seat passenger were U.S. citizens who were trying to smuggle 13 men illegally into the United States, Fox News reported.

All of the vehicle's occupants wore U.S. Marine uniforms with the name "Perez" on name tags on their camouflage uniforms.

http://www.ocregister.com/news/border-293306-tried-uniforms.html