In July 2009 Arizona officials discovered 97 illegal immigrants in a 34 degree refrigerated trailer. (KVOA)
Mexican police captured TWO TRUCKS crammed with 513 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS heading to the US. The immigrants were from Latin America, Japan, China, India and Nepal.
My FOX NY reported:
Police on Tuesday detained 513 undocumented migrants from Latin America and Asia who were crammed into two trucks bound for the United States, prosecutors in southeast Mexico said.
The migrants, from Latin America, Japan, China, India and Nepal, “were traveling in inhuman conditions” in the southeastern state of Chiapas, near the Guatemalan border, the local attorney general’s office said in a statement.
Police stopped the trucks, carrying 240 and 273 people, on the outskirts of state capital Tuxtla Gutierrez early Tuesday, after they accelerated through a vehicle scanner at a police checkpoint, the statement said.
Officers chased down the vehicles shortly afterward, it added.
Police detained the Mexican drivers of the two trucks, and the migrants were provided with aid and food, the statement said.
Mexican lawmakers last month unanimously approved a law to “strengthen the protection and security” of migrants amid widespread abuse.
273 people in one truck?
How godawful.