World News | Mexican Traffickers Steal Bus Trying to Smuggle Migrants
Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. In a sign of how bold migrant traffickers in Mexico have become, smugglers stole a purple passenger bus near Mexico City, loaded it with 57 people from Haiti, Brazil, Chile and Honduras and sent it up a highway toward the northern city of Monterrey.
Mexico City, Jun 8 (AP) In a sign of how bold migrant traffickers in Mexico have become, smugglers stole a purple passenger bus near Mexico City, loaded it with 57 people from Haiti, Brazil, Chile and Honduras and sent it up a highway toward the northern city of Monterrey.
Once in Monterrey, the migrants were to head to the U.S. border, authorities said.
But the bus was pulled over Monday by National Guard officers who had received a stolen vehicle report on it. They were surprised to find the enormous, brightly colored bus packed full of migrants.
The driver was detained. The migrants — 16 of whom were minors — were handed over to the National Immigration Institute and child welfare authorities. (AP)
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