Smuggling smugglers arrested for migrant trafficking
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WASHINGTON — Fourteen alleged members of a human trafficking organization have been charged with transporting, harboring and bringing hundreds of migrants across the Mexican border into the United States.
According to the indictment, an undocumented foreigner died during the illegal transportation of migrants due to the heat and was abandoned in the desert.
The United States believes the organization has trafficked hundreds of illegal migrants, including unaccompanied children, through New Mexico and southern Texas.
They hid them in safe houses along the way.
“Human trafficking organizations threaten our national security and exploit vulnerable individuals for profit, putting their lives at risk and undermining public safety,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Holland S. Kastrin for the District of New Mexico.
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