Prosecutor: Bus drivers in league with migrant kidnappers
A victim who escaped his captors helped Mexican officials arrest two bus drivers allegedly paid to deliver African and South American migrants to an organized criminal group in Sonora.
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A victim who escaped his captors helped Mexican officials arrest two bus drivers allegedly paid to deliver African and South American migrants to an organized criminal group in Sonora.
Title 42 expulsions are no more, but policies such as the Biden administration’s online asylum applications and a so-called “travel ban” are putting LGBTQ migrants in harm’s way, according to U.S. and Latin American advocates.
Calling the recent arrest of two municipal police officers on migrant kidnapping an isolated event, the mayor of Juarez said he will not stand in the way of their prosecution.
Federal authorities believe they’ve broken a family-based crime ring that brought in, housed and transported undocumented migrants to the interior of the United States.
Eight migrants have been victims of homicide in Juarez in the last nine months, with the bodies of seven found within walking distance of the same street.