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Armed Escorts Drop Off Migrants Near Ajo, Arizona

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Public Affairs - Visual Communications Division

April 20, 2019 | 2:22

U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Ajo station apprehended a woman and her eight-year-old son after witnessing armed subjects escort the pair into the United States, west of Lukeville, Arizona, Saturday night.

Border Patrol cameras observed several men armed with assault rifles escort a mother and child to the international boundary west of Lukeville. The armed men dropped off the pair in an area commonly used by smugglers to bring massive numbers of Central Americans into the country illegally.