STRASBURG, Colo. -- Seventeen suspected illegal immigrants were taken into federal custody Monday after their van was involved in a rollover crash on icy Interstate 70.

All 17 people -- including 14 men, two women, and one teen -- were inside a 1994 Chevrolet Surburban when it rolled on westbound I-70, at Mile Marker 317, near the town of Strasburg.

Colorado State Patrol troopers, as well as officials with the Immigration and Custom Enforcement, were sent the crash, which occurred at 9:43 a.m. Immigration agents talked to the suspected illegal immigrants and then took them away in a van.

There were no serious injuries, according to Bennet Fire spokesman Mike Beck. One person was taken to Aurora South Medical Center for minor injuries. Eastbound I-70 was closed from Denver to the Kansas border, but westbound lanes remained open.

Meanwhile, two bills concerning illegal immigration passed out of committee on Monday. The bills would substantially increase penalties for smuggling and trafficking illegal immigrants.

Sen. Peter Groff, D-Denver, said he wants to make human smuggling a violation of state law (Senate Bill 206) because he said federal immigration authorities haven't been enforcing the federal law against it.

Another measure (Senate Bill 207) would make human trafficking a violation of state law. That's when people are sold or forced into indentured servitude or sex. Currently, only children are protected from that under state law; Groff's proposal would add anyone 16 and older.

Each week state troopers came across more than 500 illegal immigrants during their patrols. That includes an average of four vanloads of immigrants smuggled into and across this country, according to a recent survey by the State Patrol that was released last week by Senate Democrats.

The measures are aimed at the smugglers and the traffickers themselves, not the immigrants they profit from. However, another proposal (Senate Bill 90) from Sen. Tom Wiens, R-Sedalia, would require that law enforcement agencies notify federal immigration officials about any illegal immigrants they arrest.

Just going after and imprisoning six smugglers a year has an estimated pricetag of $2.6 million over five years. State law requires that any new crime has to carry with it a five-year plan for building and operating new prison beds. Legislative analysts base their estimates on two people being convicted under the new law and four others charged with other crimes also being charged and eventually convicted of smuggling.

Groff said the aim is to make smugglers afraid to cross Colorado.

"If anyone thinks this is going to solve the problem of illegal immigration, they'll be disappointed. But certainly it's going to make a substantive impact," Groff said.