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Two Basque Sheepherders Charged in Immigration Plot
In Boise Idaho two Basque sheepherders Jose Manuel Caamano Rama and Javier Gamez Arrospide are indicted for conspiring to marry U S citizens to evade immigration laws. Ralph O Jones a Weiser sheepman and his wife are named among six defendants all free on bond. The plot allegedly involved marriage agreements to obtain visas and circumvent quotas.
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Boise
Idaho
Jose Manuel Caamano Rama
Land Weiser
Ralph Idaho
O. Jones
U.S
Long Regan