Seven suspects arrested in Mexico for kidnapping migrants and holding them for ransom after promising to smuggle them over the border into the US Law enforcement agents took down a group of smugglers that kidnapped migrants they had promised to sneak across into the U.S. Two migrants were saved during last Thursday's raid The criminal gang operated out of the Mexican state of Baja California The suspects, six men and one woman, targeted their victims at the General Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada International Airport in Mexicali Migrants were promised that for $12,000, they would be brought into the U.S. and dropped off at their family homes After agreeing, the migrants would arrive at a house where they were held for ransom until the families came up with the money
By Adry Torres For Dailymail.com
Published: 21:25 GMT, 18 March 2019 | Updated: 21:26 GMT, 18 March 2019
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Mexican authorities have arrested seven members of a human trafficking ring that promised to smuggle migrants into the US but instead held them ransom.
A Thursday night raid at a safe house in the state of Baja California led to the rescue of two migrants being held by the gang,
Law enforcement agents arrested six men, who have only been identified by their first names: Pablo Iván, Sergio, Marco Antonio, Juan Carlos, Guillermo Raúl and Pedro Antonio.