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El Paso, Texas -- Margarito "Mike" Ibaņez' chair at the defense table was empty Tuesday while he was tried in absentia in U.
S. District Court for transporting undocumented workers for financial gain.
Judge Robert Junell had adjourned the seven-man, five-woman jury at 11 a.m. Monday after giving up on the 38-year-old Mexican citizen illegal alien from El Paso Mexico and issuing a bench warrant for the arrest of the accused coyote, a term for people who smuggle illegal immigrants into the U.S.