The Archive · 1930

SMUGGLING HINDUS

INTO AMERICA

San Diego, Apr. 16, USS. immigration authorities here have captured a "bungalow automo Jobile" near Westmoreland contain. ing six compartments in which they' Hfound six Hindus, said to have been smuggled from the Mexican border.

They immediately arrested eight men and one woman who were with the car, and the nine were arraigned hhere on charges of smuggling aliens into the country.

Officials declared that groups had been smuggling Chinese and Hindus for months under an arrangement to pass the border guards.

Four other automo! panied the "bungalow" car as a [convoy.—United Press.

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