San Diego - A Mexican pleaded guilty on Thursday to lead a group that did enter aliens to the United States through a field of practice bombing in southeastern California.
Javier Sanchez perfino of 30 years, leading a group recognized that people smugglers from Mexico through the Field of aerial bombardments and artillery practices of the Chocolate Mountain, where Americans train pilots before being sent to Afghanistan.
After the aliens were brought to Los Angeles.
Authorities say the group is also paid to two experienced Border Patrol agents to release undocumented federal custody, but Sanchez was not charged for that offence. Both players pleaded guilty in 2006 to obtain some 180,000 U.S. dollars between them on this account.
The human smugglers often use the practice areas of war because the immigration authorities avoided, said Jeffrey Calhoon, chief of sector of the Border Patrol in El Centro, California.
Officers from the patrol rely on sensors to alert them of alien smuggling and arrest them when they leave these areas, Calhoon said. If you consider that there are lives in danger, then enter the area to tell the military authorities to suspend their practices.
"It is possible that there are enough unexploded ordnance in the area," he said.
So far, however, has not been informed about the deaths of undocumented as a result of bombs, said the spokesman for the patrol, Quinn Palmer.
Sanchez, a legal resident in the United States, faces up to 10 years in prison when sentenced Dec. 5 by smuggling aliens for financial gain and conspiracy to carry out such operations from January 2003 to October 2006.
"Guilty," he said in Spanish after the district judge Jeffrey Miller filed the charges against him. His lawyer, John Lemon, refused to comment after the hearing.
Authorities say the organization smugglers between 60 and 80 people daily in its best time, charging $ 1,500 per person.
