Court Filing: Abrego García Used Children As “Cover” For Smuggling Runs, Seating Them On Floorboards To Pack In More Paying Migrants

I found this at ABC News.

Prosecutors contend in Monday’s filing that the alleged presence of minors on at least some of the trips entitles the government to a detention hearing. If the hearing is granted, the government says a special agent with Homeland Security Investigations will testify “that he learned during the course of the investigation that the Defendant and other members of the conspiracy transported minors in an unsafe manner.”

According to the filing, the agent would testify that one of Abrego Garcia’s alleged co-conspirators told investigators that Abrego Garcia “would sometimes travel with young children and/or family members as ‘cover’ for his illegal trafficking,” and that the children “were often seated on the vehicle’s floorboard so that the alien transportees, who had paid other co-conspirators for the travel, could have seats. This would allow more paying aliens to be transported and increase the financial gain of the conspiracy,” the filing states. READ MORE

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