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WESLACO - Three people from Afghanistan are in Border Patrol custody in the Valley. Border Patrol acknowledges they apprehended the three Afghanis in the Valley.

They were found in two different groups. One was found south of Mission by the river. The other two were found in a stash house north of Moorefield Road.

Samuel Freeman, a political science professor at the University of Texas Pan American and expert on U.S. foreign policy, says it's unusual for Afghanis to show up in the Rio Grande Valley.

Freeman says the three could be drug runners. He says there's a huge pipeline of opium from Afghanistan to the U.S.

CHANNEL 5 NEWS submitted a Freedom of Information request to find out more information on the three Afghanis detained in the Valley. Once we get that information, we'll bring it to you.