Illegals were driving in a van with government plates. Two Americans also arrested.

You have to admire the creativity. The idea that these people were stupid enough to think that the wouldn’t notice that the marine uniforms all had the same name is hilarious. JD

Border Patrol agents have caught 13 wearing at a checkpoint near San Diego.

The immigrants were in a van that was stopped along Interstate 8 on March 14.

The van had a licence plate with an altered number, Border Patrol spokesman said.

He did not know where the group obtained the military uniforms. There are reports that each of the 13 uniforms were embroidered with the surname ‘Perez’.

‘This effort is an example of the lengths smugglers will go through to avoid detection, and the skilled and effective police work of the agents and the ,’ he said.

Two U.S. citizens who were with the immigrants were arrested on suspicion of alien smuggling.

Three of the immigrants were being held in federal custody as witnesses and the others were returned to Mexico, their country of origin, he said.

The and Border Patrol were conducting a joint investigation of the incident.

NCIS spokesman Ed Buice said he couldn’t discuss details, but ‘there are several obvious questions that need to be answered.’

It is not known if the two U.S. citizens who were arrested have been in the military.

Officials believe the van entered the U.S. at Calexico. The vehicle is registered in Yucca Valley California.

The fake number plates actually belong to a van registered to the

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