Immigration officials arrest driver who crashed near border, killing 6

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Federal immigration officials say they have arrested a driver who flipped his sport utility vehicle into a canal near the border, about 125 miles east of San Diego, killing six, while transporting at least 20 illegal Mexican immigrants.

One of the survivors, a 12-year-old girl, saw her parents and 8-year-old brother die in the crash, said Lauren Mack, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, reports Molly Hennessy-Fiske.

These sorts of accidents are common, and show the vulnerability of people from Latin America trying to cross into the United States illegally. The name of the driver has not been released because he may be a juvenile, according to the report.

Read on about the accident that killed six migrants here.

-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City