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Cartel scout said he helped smuggle 1,000 undocumented immigrants into US last year

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Edgar Armanda Vargas-de la Rocha said he'd helped smuggle about 1,000 undocumented immigrants into the U.S. He said he was in the country illegally, earning about $10,000 for reports about border agents’ locations and activity to members of the Los Memos cartel, part of the Sinaloa cartel.

The arrest near Maricopa , Arizona , took place as authorities looked into why federal equipment had gone offline.

It comes as President Donald Trump ’s administration ramps up a border crackdown.

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