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A Mexican man named Armando Paulino Estudillo has pleaded guilty to helping smuggle his girlfriend into the U.S. from Canada, admitting he paid Vermont immigrant rights activist José Ignacio De La Cruz $2,000 to arrange it. Both men were arrested in April—Estudillo in New Hampshire, De La Cruz in Essex—with De La Cruz now facing multiple smuggling and document fraud charges while remaining free on bond. Estudillo, who’s been deported three times before, claims he’d already spent $5,000 and had $3,000 more ready for the trip, though the first attempt failed and he later got a $2,000 refund. Border Patrol caught the woman—and three others—early the next morning after their second try, with texts linking both men to the operation. Estudillo is now locked up in Vermont, awaiting sentencing in October, with his only real connection to the state being this scheme with De La Cruz.

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