EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – A U.S. citizen allegedly tasked by smugglers with making multiple trips to pick up migrants, take them to hotels, pick them up from stash houses and even arrange for bus travel is in federal custody.
Border Patrol agents arrested Alan William Fischbach, 54, in Tucson, Arizona, last week after allegedly witnessing him drive twice in the same morning to pick up migrants at an isolated spot off Interstate 19 leading to the border city of Nogales.
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Fischback allegedly picked up two groups of migrants hidden in desert brush, drove them to a hotel in Tucson, then took two of their “foot guides” to a bus station so they could return to Nogales.
Court records show he made a stop along the way at an apartment complex where he left four migrants in sweltering temperatures inside his rented SUV after he suspected being followed and decided to call an Uber.
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Agents stopped the share-ride vehicle and arrested Fischback in possession of the hotel keys where he allegedly dropped off several migrants. Agents also went back to the apartment complex and retrieved from the SUV the four migrants who “appeared to be in distress from the high temperatures.”…