Thread: 133 trafficked migrants rescued in Mexico

133 trafficked migrants rescued in Mexico

2017-08-30 09:28

Mexico City - Mexican authorities said on Tuesday they rescued 133 Central American migrants, including 34 children, from a house where they were apparently locked up and abandoned while being trafficked to the US.

The undocumented migrants, who came from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, were locked up in "overcrowded conditions" in a house in a remote area in the south-eastern state of Tabasco, the attorney general's office said in a statement.
Authorities found them after receiving an anonymous tip, it said.

Two people were arrested on kidnapping charges. The migrants were handed over to immigration authorities.

Hundreds of thousands of migrants cross Mexico each year seeking to reach the US.

Central Americans who make the trip are often fleeing brutal gang violence in their home countries. The trend reached crisis levels in 2014, when some 69 000 unaccompanied children flooded the US-Mexican border.

They often travel in perilous conditions, prey to human traffickers known as "coyotes" and drug gangs that charge them "taxes" to cross their turf.

In July, 10 migrants suffocated to death in the back of a truck that was found in a Walmart parking lot in San Antonio, Texas, just across the border.

133 trafficked migrants rescued in Mexico | News24

The sickening scourge of illegal immigration. STOP IT ALL NOW!! By all means necessary, whatever it takes. No exceptions, no mercy, no excuses.

Glad they did not step foot on OUR soil.

If they come through Mexico they should be deported right back through Mexico and on down the line.

Send them back to the 1st border they illegally crossed on our soil. No more plane rides to Central America...let Mexico pay to deport them.

So true, just herd them back to Mexico. If we did that, Mexico would begin working to stop them coming across their country. As it is, I'm sure they are laughing because they facilitate the problem in this country.