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Cartels abduct more than 1,200 migrants, police chief says
KMID ^ | Aug 13, 2024 | Julian Resendiz

Posted on 08/13/2024 9:54:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Caravans are gone and agents taking stowaways off trains, but criminals still preying on those lacking clear path to US asylum

Police in Chihuahua, Mexico, say they have freed 1,245 migrants from criminal gangs in the past seven months.

The kidnapping, extortion and violence inflicted on the foreign nationals who come to the border looking for a way into the United States is rising even though overall migrant traffic has dropped dramatically in recent months, a law enforcement official says.

“We have diminished migration flows in terms of caravans and people arriving on trains. But I must point out we are seeing more people who are being kidnapped and extorted,” Chihuahua State Public Safety Director Gilberto Loya said.

Abducted migrants typically are kept captive in overcrowded stash houses, mostly in Juarez just south of the border from El Paso, Texas. They are rarely fed or even given water, Mexican officials said.

Migrants were burned, beaten, raped at cartel stash house, feds say Police find out about the stash houses through calls made to 911 by horrified neighbors who hear screams or see large groups of huddled people through windows. Sometimes the tips come from U.S. officials contacted stateside by the victims’ relatives. Occasionally, police just come across groups of individuals with signs of violence walking about aimlessly.

Such was the case last week on the highway from Chihuahua City to Juarez. State police officers found 10 Sudanese and Moroccan nationals released from an unknown location after their relatives paid a ransom.

10 African migrants tortured, held for ransom “Last week we had two important rescues. One of 10 people from Sudan and Morocco,” Loya said. “And last week we had the rescue of five people, three men and a woman from Guatemala and Nicaragua. They were malnourished, dehydrated.

“What they wanted was to get to the United States. Unfortunately, they are falling prey to and abused by criminal gangs.”

Groups to document alleged Operation Lone Star abuses American migrant support nonprofits warned last spring that violence against asylum-seekers was on the rise due to immigration crackdowns in Mexico and on the U.S. Southwest border.

In a July report called Pain as a Strategy, the Hope Border Institute outlined how actions taken by federal authorities in Mexico, Texas state authorities at the Rio Grande levee and the Biden administration’s June 4 temporary closing of the border to asylum-seekers without an appointment at a port of entry are putting migrants in harm’s way.

Wearing out migrants is Mexico’s tactic to cut flow to the US The institute’s research showed how three transnational criminal organizations in Juarez – La Linea, the Sinaloa cartel and the up-and-coming La Empresa group – control the Mexican side of the border.

“Once they arrive in Juarez, cartels routinely kidnap migrants and stow them in stash houses, where they take away all their belongings including cell phones,” according to Pain as a Strategy. “Having kidnapped migrants, cartel elements will proceed to contact family members to demand ransom (up to $20,000 according to survivors’ testimonies), frequently after a week of having the person kidnapped so that families are more anxious and prone to pay.”

Visit the BorderReport.com homepage for the latest exclusive stories and breaking news about issues along the U.S.-Mexico border Jesus de la Torre, assistant director for global migration for the Hope Border Institute, said it is imperative for the U.S. and Mexican government to change their migration policies to keep vulnerable people safe while they are searching for a better life.

“The best antidote to reduce crimes against people on the move and deaths is to provide safe migration pathways and place humanitarian values at the core of our migration policies,” De la Torre told Border Report in an email on Tuesday. “The U.S. and Mexican governments must stop repressing people on the move and, instead, allow them to exercise their right to seek asylum in a fair and humane way.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 202406; 20240604; borderclosing; chihuahuacity; delatorre; guatemala; guatemalans; hopeborderinstitute; humantrafficking; illegalimmigration; jesusdelatorre; moroccans; morocco; nicaragua; nicaraguans; operationlonestar; oplonestar; painasastrategy; sudan; sudanese

1 posted on 08/13/2024 9:54:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

A problem for Mexico to deal with. We should close the border, seal it.


2 posted on 08/13/2024 9:57:51 PM PDT by Reno89519 (“We believe in the collective,” says Gun Grabbing Harris and Stolen Valor Timmy "Tampon" Walz.)
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To: Reno89519

As long as we incentivize illegal immigration, that won’t help.


3 posted on 08/13/2024 9:58:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Sealing the border will unincentivize the situation.


4 posted on 08/13/2024 10:32:55 PM PDT by Fai Mao ( The US government is run by pedophiles and Perverts for pedophiles and perverts.)
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To: Fai Mao

That and turning off the tap. No more freebies for illegals or their kids.


5 posted on 08/13/2024 10:49:55 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: nickcarraway

The best way to deal with this is for these peoples to fix their own damn countries!


6 posted on 08/13/2024 10:51:45 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: jmacusa

And putting people thaT hire them in jail


7 posted on 08/13/2024 10:54:39 PM PDT by Fai Mao ( The US government is run by pedophiles and Perverts for pedophiles and perverts.)
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To: nickcarraway

They should investigate these so called charities... because while in the guise of do-gooders, they are actually benefiting the cartels with their claims that police operations against human trafficking are hurting migrants “just seeking a better life” (aactually seeking an end run around the legal immigration process.)

I would not be surprised if these ngos and charities are actually fronts for cartels.

If the border was secure people wouldn’t be in harm’s way- instead, they would be standing in line at the US Embassy filling out forms to legally enter the US. The charities actually draw poor unfortunate people into these predicaments by giving them hope of an easy entry.


8 posted on 08/13/2024 10:59:24 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Fai Mao

YUP!


9 posted on 08/13/2024 11:23:43 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: piasa

Charities are seldom actually about helping people. With a few exceptions, of course, they are largely driven by a sinister agenda or as emotionally manipulative schemes that make people rich. Or both.


10 posted on 08/14/2024 2:55:54 AM PDT by mn-bush-man
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To: Reno89519

Leaving the borders open is what has helped create this mess. This is another example of the lie that those who want the borders open do so because they are humanitarians...countless numbers of these migrants have been trafficked / enslaved, raped, abused, and even murdered. Including children.

There is nothing compassionate about this open border.


11 posted on 08/14/2024 4:45:26 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: nickcarraway

My GAF meter is pegged. I don’t care. The only down side is now we taxpayers are funding the invasion by buying illegals plane tickets and flying them here.


12 posted on 08/14/2024 10:23:45 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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