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Man Gets Nearly 6 Years for Smuggling 2 Illegal Immigrants and Causing Fatal Crash

The San Diego County man’s car overturned as he fled a Border Patrol agent, killing the pair he was smuggling.
Man Gets Nearly 6 Years for Smuggling 2 Illegal Immigrants and Causing Fatal Crash
Migrants walk toward a Border Patrol checkpoint from the "Otay Gap" in Otay Mesa, Calif., on Feb. 29, 2024. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times
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A federal judge sentenced a San Diego County man to 71 months in prison for smuggling two illegal immigrants over the border and causing a crash that left them dead,  prosecutors reported July 2.

Prosecutors say Sergio Josue Palomera of Chula Vista picked up a man and a woman on Oct. 22, 2024, in his car at the U.S.-Mexico border in Otay Mesa, Calif., about 20 miles southeast of downtown San Diego.

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