Two asylum seekers from El Salvador were charged late Tuesday in a plot to transport two people who had illegally entered California from Mexico further into the country, according to the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of California.

The married couple, Edy Giovanni Fuentes-Alvarado and Kenia Yamileth Gomez-Caballero, each face 10 years in prison for allegedly trying to pick up Fuentes-Alvarado’s cousin and a second person eight miles north of the border.

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