U.S. Border Patrol agents recently disrupted an attempted smuggling run moving 14 Indian nationals from Canada into the U.S. across the Quebec-New York State border, court records show.
This was one of the largest interceptions of Indian nationals by the U.S. Border Patrol in a single smuggling event over the past three years along this area of the Canada-U.S. border, according to U.S. federal court records.
The driver of the vehicle the agents stopped said he was recruited for the smuggling run in a manner resembling a spy novel. The location of the interception may also signal a shift in the tactics of smuggling networks operating in
