Local agencies pick up tab
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Jackson County sheriff’s deputies detained 20 suspected undocumented immigrants following a call from to the sheriff’s office on June 4.
“We received a call from a concerned citizen who said they saw a lot of people laying in a Suburban traveling on Hwy. 59 towards Houston,” Sheriff Andy Louderback said. “We didn’t have a unit close by, but they stopped at Love’s for gas and an officer was able to respond.”
He said they found 20 individuals from Honduras, El Salvador and Mexico making their way through the country to find work.
The migrant workers said they were headed to states like Arkansas and Illinois. Some had paid “coyotes” as much as $7,000 to arrange transportation across the border and to their place of employment.
The trip, which one individual said was supposed to only take eight hours, took seven days as the group walked three days through the desert without food or water.
“We drank out of cattle troughs,” one said.
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