SAN DIEGO – 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.
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