|
Feature Article:
Immigration
Update: Human Smuggling, Migrant Deaths and Other Stories
by Greg Bloom, FNS Editor
An investigation by Mexico's Federal Preventative Police (Policía Federal
Preventiva, PFP) has identified 118 smuggling organizations that move
undocumented migrants into the US. Many of these groups are comprised of
authorities from all levels of Mexico's National Migration Institute
(Instituto Nacional de Migración, INM), the report revealed. Federal,
state and city police also form part of the organization.
The PFP estimates that in 2001 smugglers moved approximately 15,000
non-Mexicans across Mexico toward the US. These migrants were primarily
from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. To help with their passage, the
organizations used networks of hotels, restaurants, travel agencies,
taxis, bus lines and forgers, the PFP concluded. Continued . . .
Daily News:
Departments:
|
