Posted on 12/04/2010 12:37:25 PM PST by moonshinner_09
PHOENIX -- Ten children have been rescued from human smugglers who threatened to rape and kill some of them if their parents didn't pay more money for their entry into the U.S., authorities said Friday.
The children, from 2 to 17 years old, were smuggled from Mexico, El Salvador and Guatemala, and were being held against their will at a drop house in Phoenix, authorities said. Only one of them was being brought into the country with a parent. The smugglers threatened to rape and kill three El Salvadoran sisters ages 12, 14 and 16 if their mother didn't pay them $10,000, Arizona Department of Public Safety Capt. Fred Zumbo said.
The girls' mother, who is living legally in the U.S. in the San Francisco area, called the FBI for help, and Phoenix police and other agencies took over from there. Police found the home where the girls were being held, and found them and the other children when a SWAT team raided it Thursday night.
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Just doin’ the jobs Americans won’t do.
Human trafficking of minors should be a capital offence.
Mexico is thrilled to have less kids there!
So why would Mexico punish parents there?
Yes, isn’t it grand to have OPEN BORDERS!
YES!
It is an unspeakable crime.
Ohhhh! More illegal Mexican National criminals. Who would have thought?
Please note that by counting such people as kidnapping victims, is how Phoenix was called the “kidnap capital of the US”, which is very dishonest.
In truth, such drop houses are standard to illegal alien smuggling. The illegal aliens pay half up front to the smugglers in Mexico, then they are smuggled in to the safe house, where they remain until they contact their relatives, either in the US or Mexico, who pay the other half.
There is a logic to this that the smugglers must be “incentivized” to actually smuggle and not abandon the illegals; yet the illegals must be kept on a leash, or they would take off in the US without paying the smugglers.
To call this kidnapping is disingenuous. It is an illegal contract, yes, but it is not just voluntarily entered into, but actively sought out by the illegals.
In a bizarre twist, many illegals who pay half down just pretend that they have the other half. They think that somehow, once they are in the US, they can make a break for it and cheat the smuggler. So this is where the threats come in.
Likewise, smugglers often get greedy, and demand more money to release the illegals than they originally agreed to, and threaten to harm them if they are not paid the larger sum.
It is indeed a dirty business, but then again, human smuggling has always been a dirty business. And it has been going on for a long, long time.
mexico is the route of this evil. Its time the US unmexican.
Because in Mexico, it's not illegal.
Mexico where is your shame.
It’s called ‘’slavery’’ no matter how one looks at it.
You are right. But the young girls are brought from Mexican villages under false pretenses. The parents are happy to see their teen girls get this wonderful chance to go to El Norte to work as a waitress and make good money and have a better life. The innocent parents do not understand, because they are tricked, that their girls will be used as prostitutes up here, often taken from farm to farm for the “use” of the illegals working there.
And indeed, these girls are “kidnapped.” Once they get here they are locked up and not free to go. They are told they have to work for the rest of the money, and their “work” never seems to pay the coyote “enough.” It’s our new slavery.
Now if we can only find their grandparents in their home countries and return them safely home.
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