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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A former Border Patrol agent has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to smuggle undocumented immigrants into the United States.
Carlos Manuel Vorher entered the plea in U.S. District Court in Utah on Monday. Sentencing for the 43-year-old Vorher is set for Aug. 16. He faces up to five years in prison.
Vorher worked as a paralegal for the Alcala Law Firm in Salt Lake City for three years starting in 2006.
A federal indictment alleged that attorney James Alcala and seven workers at his west-side law firm helped Utah companies get work visas for ineligible foreign workers.
Investigators believe the law firm filed more than 700 petitions that led to the issuance of more than 5,000 work visas, the majority of them fraudulent, to companies in Salt Lake, Davis and Utah counties.
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Information from: The Salt Lake Tribune
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