More than a dozen illegal immigrants found at Luxury RV park in Donna

by Hannah Linn

Posted: 06.04.2012




Donna police say that this case was quite rare.

Usually illegal immigrants are found hiding out in more rural or run-down areas, but not in areas as luxurious as the Victoria Palms RV Resort in Donna.

A phone call from management about a possible stash house led Donna police to the park on Monday afternoon.

By the time officers and Border Patrol agents arrived, neighbors saw over a dozen illegal immigrants jump the fence and flee into a nearby cornfield.

Though it seems stash house busts are on the rise in the valley, Lieutenant Rick Suarez says the Victoria Palms was the last place he thought as a pit stop for human smugglers.

"I'm very surprised to see that that's where they're storing them now. Normally they'd stash them in old beat up houses. In this particular case, I guess they were storing them there. But it got people's attention," admits the lieutenant.

Lt. Suarez then says police and border patrol officers rounded up twelve men and one woman.

They all admitted they'd been traveling to the united states all the way from El Salvador.

Management at the Victoria Palms chose not to comment about this case. They say they are still waiting for the investigation to finish.

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El Salvador is a partner in the BRIDGE initiative.
US signs historic deal with El Salvador and Honduras for remittance securitization

The United States has recently signed separate Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with El Salvador and Honduras to assist them in securitizing their future remittance receipts to raise financing for infrastructure and development projects.

Under the Building Remittance Investment for Development, Growth, and Entrepreneurship (BRIDGE) initiative, banks in these countries will leverage their future remittance receipts to raise lower-cost and longer-term financing in international capital markets to fund infrastructure, public works, and commercial development initiatives (see press release).

In a speech in New York City on September 22, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton explained how BRIDGE would work to raise critically needed development funding:

http://www.alipac.us/f12/us-signs-hi...zation-258348/