Mexican Cops Raid Border City Stash House, Find 86 Migrants

Mexican Cops Raid Border City Stash House, Find 86 Migrants

by CARTEL CHRONICLES 14 Mar 2021

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila – Mexican authorities raided a house being used by human smugglers to warehouse 86 Central American migrants waiting to be crossed into Texas. The raid comes as numerous border cities in Mexico witnesses a sharp resurgance in Central Americans trying to reach the United States.

The raid took place this week in the Mundo Nuevo neighborhood of Piedras Negras, as local police officers and state police forces responded to calls of a large number of migrants gathered in the area. According to information provided to Breitbart Texas by Coahuila authorities, officers cordoned off the area and tried to locate the human smugglers who were holding the migrants. Their efforts were unsuccessful.

Authorities took all the migrants to the local police headquarters in Piedras Negras. Agents with Mexico’s National Immigration Institute checked to see if any of the migrants were in Mexico legally. The migrants (including one underage male) included 62 individuals from Honduras. The remainder came from Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Mexico.

The raid comes at a time when authorities in Coahuila report a spike in human smuggling activity as thousands of migrants travel through the region in an attempt to reach Texas. The area around Piedras Negras has minimal fencing or physical barriers on the U.S. side of the border. This leaves only the shallow waters of the Rio Grande as an obstacle for reaching Texas.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/202...d-86-migrants/

Take them to their Embassy in Mexico to be fingerprinted and processed. Load them on buses back home where they belong.