BANGOR, Maine (AP) Border officials say one U.S. citizen and four Mexican nationals were arrested near the Canadian border in Maine in a “human smuggling attempt.”
The Bangor Daily News reported that the men were arraigned in Bangor on Thursday. Two of the men were charged with bringing immigrants into the U.S. illegally and harboring them. According to court documents, the other three told agents that they had traveled illegally from Mexico to Canada to gain entry to the United States.
An attorney for one of the men says her client crossed the border simply to provide for his family in Mexico.
Attorneys for the other four didn’t immediately return messages.
