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Nation : ‘Red-Eye’ Jet Yields 53 Illegals

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From Times Wire Services

Federal immigration agents removed 53 undocumented aliens from a New York-bound jetliner today, bringing to 98 the number caught in two days.

The 53 were arrested on Eastern Airlines Flight 88 when it made a scheduled stop in Atlanta on a flight from Los Angeles. It was the same flight on which 45 illegal aliens were arrested Wednesday.

Agents said the aliens had paid from $900 to $3,000 to be smuggled into the United States, a fortune in countries where a day’s field labor can pay $4 or less.

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Agents dubbed the operation “Red-Eye Replay.” Immigration agents pulled 79 aliens off a similar Eastern cheap night flight in Atlanta just over a year ago.

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