U.S. border patrol agents in California arrested a suspected MS-13 gang member early Wednesday morning after illegally crossing the border into the United States, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced.
An agent from the San Diego sector was looking for a group of illegal intruders in a mountainous area around 12:45 on Wednesday when he spotted half a dozen men ‘near the boundary wall’, according to CBP.
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A Border Patrol Agent is patrolling along a secondary border fence construction site following the length of the primary border fence separating the United States and Mexico in the San Diego sector on August 22, 2019 in San Diego, CA. (Photo by Carolyn Van Houten / The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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Upon questioning, all the men admitted that they had entered the US illegally and were arrested, authorities said.
While being processed at a nearby border patrol station, agents discovered that one of the men was a documented member of the MS-13 gang, ‘CBP said.
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The agency said the man, a 28-year-old citizen of El Salvador, and the five others – including three from El Salvador, one from Mexico and one from Honduras – would be returned to their homeland.