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A state appeals court Wednesday rejected arguments by a man who pleaded no contest to charges of human smuggling after a traffic stop in December 2020 in Northwest Florida. A Santa Rosa County sheriff’s deputy stopped a car Frank Leija Moreno was driving on Interstate 10, and authorities later determined that two passengers, a 14-year-old youth and a 17-year-old youth, had come to the United States from Guatemala. Read: Florida Gov. DeSantis Deploys State Guard, Law Enforcement To Keys As Wave Of Haitian Migrants Expected The youths told authorities that their families had paid for them to cro…

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