WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Criminal Division issued the following news release:
A Mexican national, Luis Carlos Davalos-Lopez, 29, pleaded guilty today in El Paso, Texas, to conspiracy to bring in aliens to the United States. According to court documents, Davalos-Lopez conspired with others to smuggle migrants through an underground tunnel from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, to El Paso, Texas.
"This defendant demonstrated a total disregard for our nation's laws by conspiring to smuggle illegal aliens into the United States through a tunnel that ran from Mexico under the U.S. border into Texas," said Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Justice Department's Criminal Division. "This shows that smugglers will ...