X-rays made available by the PGR showed that gang smugglers jammed hundreds of illegal immigrants into trailers.
By H. Nelson Goodson
May 19, 2011
Chiapas, Mexico - On Tuesday, Mexican federal authorities and the Chiapas state police reported that they detained 513 illegal immigrants from at least nine countries in the Southern border state of Chiapas. The immigrants were being smuggled from Guatemala in two semi-trailers. Mexican immigration officials discovered the immigrants after taking x-rays of both the trailer cargo sections.
In one trailer they found 273 men and in the second they found 240 including 32 women and four children, the Chiapas Attorney General's Office (PGR) confirmed.
The immigrants told authorities that they paid $7,000 each to be smuggled through Mexico and were headed to the U.S. border. They were travelling in hot and harsh conditions inside the enclosed trailers. All of the immigrants were taken into custody to be processed.
The drivers were also detained and officials say the human trafficking and smuggling operation is connected to local drug cartel gangs.
Mexican police confirmed, that 410 immigrants were from Guatemala, 41 from El Salvador, 32 from Ecuador, 12 from India, 6 from Napels, 3 from China, 1 each from Honduras, Santo Domingo and Japan.
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By H. Nelson Goodson
May 19, 2011
Chiapas, Mexico - On Tuesday, Mexican federal authorities and the Chiapas state police reported that they detained 513 illegal immigrants from at least nine countries in the Southern border state of Chiapas. The immigrants were being smuggled from Guatemala in two semi-trailers. Mexican immigration officials discovered the immigrants after taking x-rays of both the trailer cargo sections.
In one trailer they found 273 men and in the second they found 240 including 32 women and four children, the Chiapas Attorney General's Office (PGR) confirmed.
The immigrants told authorities that they paid $7,000 each to be smuggled through Mexico and were headed to the U.S. border. They were travelling in hot and harsh conditions inside the enclosed trailers. All of the immigrants were taken into custody to be processed.
The drivers were also detained and officials say the human trafficking and smuggling operation is connected to local drug cartel gangs.
Mexican police confirmed, that 410 immigrants were from Guatemala, 41 from El Salvador, 32 from Ecuador, 12 from India, 6 from Napels, 3 from China, 1 each from Honduras, Santo Domingo and Japan.
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