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A New York woman has pleaded guilty in a U.S. court for her role in smuggling illegals across the border from Canada multiple times, even after having been arrested for doing so. According to court documents, Stacey Taylor, 43, of Plattsburgh, N.Y., was involved in a failed human smuggling event in January 2025 involving immigrants from India and Canada brought illegally into the United States. U.S. Border Patrol agents stopped the suspect’s vehicle near Churubusco, N.Y., in the early morning hours of Jan. 20, 2025, and discovered four men inside. Churubusco is a hamlet within the...