据报道，两名美国海军陆战队队员上周在加利福尼亚被捕，并被指控偷运非法移民越过南部边境。

7月3日，边境巡逻人员逮捕了pendleton营的海军陆战队士兵byron law ii和david salazar-quintero，此前他们与三名无证移民在车里被捕，他们告知当局，他们是墨西哥公民，但没有证件。

边境当局观察到三名移民正在进入海军陆战队的汽车，当时汽车停在8号州际公路上一个移民经常“搭车”的地点附近，该地点位于tecate入境港以东约20英里，美墨边境以北7英里。

现役士兵面临联邦政府的指控“为了经济利益运输某些外国人”两人都向当局承认，他们不止一次运送移民，包括前一天。

起诉书称，其中两名移民“声称他们将支付8000美元走私到美国”，并试图先到达洛杉矶，然后到达新泽西。

据基地发言人称，彭德尔顿营将“继续全力配合对此事的调查工作”。

两名士兵都在2017年入伍，并获得了国防服务奖章和全球反恐战争服务奖章。

Two Marines Arrested for Allegedly Smuggling Migrants Across Border

Two U.S. Marines in California were arrested last week and charged with smuggling undocumented immigrants across the southern border, according to reports.

Border Patrol agents arrested Marine Lance Corporals Byron Law II and David Salazar-Quintero of Camp Pendleton on July 3, after apprehending them in their car with three undocumented immigrants, who informed authorities they were citizens of Mexico without documentation.

Border authorities had observed the three migrants getting into the Marines’ car when it pulled over near a frequent “pickup” spot for migrants on Interstate 8, about 20 miles east of the Tecate port of entry and seven miles north of the U.S.–Mexico border.

The active-duty soldiers face the federal charge of “transportation of certain aliens for financial gain.” Both confessed to authorities that they have transported migrants more than once, including the previous day.

Two of the migrants “stated they were going to pay $8,000 to be smuggled into the United States” and were trying to get to Los Angeles and then New Jersey, the complaint said.

Camp Pendleton will “continue to cooperate fully with the investigative efforts into this matter,” according to a spokesperson for the base.

Both soldiers enlisted in 2017 and have won the National Defense Service Medal and the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal.