CARIBOU, Minn. – U. S. border agents stopped 20 migrants being smuggled into the United States from Canada 20 miles between the nearest ports of entry under the cover of a dark night. Some were walking, some were covered in the beds of two pickup trucks. There is no port of entry at Caribou. The migrants were taken 50 miles to to a customs station in Pembina, North Dakota, to be returned home. Arrested were 14 men, five women, and one child ranging in age from 3 to 43 from Mexico. In addition two drivers from Guatemala were arrested.
Migrants under tarps. Some of them hidden in trucks near pickup in barren land near Caribou. Image: U.S. Border Patrol