Several times a week Maricopa County sheriff's deputies trained to enforce federal immigration laws stake out Interstate 17 near Anthem looking for vehicles loaded with illegal immigrants.
On Tuesday, they made an unusual find. A van they stopped for a license plate violation contained five illegal immigrants. The driver, who turned out to be the smuggler, was from Mexico. The four passengers were from China. It was the first time deputies patrolling popular smuggling corridors in the Phoenix area had come across illegal immigrants from a country other than Mexico or Latin America...
