Published January 14, 2015
A 16-year-old girl has been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle 12 illegal immigrants while posing as a construction worker on the border fence in San Diego.
The Border Patrol says the girl, wearing a yellow hard hat and safety vest, was apprehended early Thursday.
She was driving a pickup truck marked as belonging to Kiewit Corp. of Omaha, Neb., which is building about three miles of border fencing.
The Border Patrol says a Mexican passenger also wore a hard had and vest.
There were eight men and three women in a modified compartment below the pickup truck bed.
The girl is a U.S. citizen. Her name has not been released.
https://www.foxnews.com/story/girl-16-arrested-for-allegedly-smuggling-illegal-immigrants-into-u-s