Discovery Channel gunman James Lee may have called immigrants “disgusting filth” in his list of demands of the network, but he didn’t apparently always feel that way: He was once arrested and imprisoned for smuggling illegal immigrants into the country from Mexico. Lee told a judge in 2003 that he became a human trafficker after he was choked and robbed in Tijuana and then offered the job by his assailants. "For one brief moment in my whole worthless life I felt good about myself,” he told the judge. “I felt like I was really helping people.” He was arrested when he was caught trying to smuggle a woman into the U.S. at a border crossing in Southern California.
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