GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan police have detained seven alleged migrant smugglers who were part of a network that reached to the Mexico-U.S. border.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement Thursday that Guatemalan authorities arrested the six men and one woman in the province of Quetzaltenango.

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