- A mobile home moving North on State Road 11 Monday night
carried 40 illegal immigrants, the U.S. Border Patrol reports. The patrol
tracked the vehicle some distance before it was stopped at 6:30 p.m. "It
appears they crossed near Santa Teresa," Rick Moody, agent in charge
of the Deming Border Patrol station, said of the 40 illegals, "then
headed North. We stopped them at mile marker 13 on State Road 11. We watched
as the went through Columbus." The immigrants traveled in a large
Southwind motor home Moody said. Even then, Moody said, their number made
for crowded conditions. He said the group was predominantly male, with
a few women and a few juveniles. Group members were processed in Deming.
Moody said they would be deported if they were not to be witnesses or were
not part of a smuggling group.
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- The patrol, meanwhile, continues investigating the death
Monday morning of a young man who collapsed Southwest of Deming, after
crossing the Mexico-U.S. Border about 24 hours earlier. The man, whose
identity had been withheld Monday afternoon pending notification of next
of kin, is Isidoro Badillo. He was 20- to 21-years-old, Moody said, and
came from near Mexico City. He was with a group of five. "We're still
working the case," Moody said Tuesday, "but we don't have anything
new." Badillo's death is the fourth known death in the desert in the
past seven weeks. Three e of the deceased are confirmed as illegal immigrants.
The fourth victim has not been identified.
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