Mexican traffickers steal bus trying to smuggle migrants

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Mexican traffickers steal bus trying to smuggle migrants
June 7, 2021
Updated: June 7, 2021 9:16 p.m.
 

MEXICO CITY (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.

https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Mexican-traffickers-steal-bus-trying-to-smuggle-16231403.php

[PeteS in CA]

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. ...

Looking at Google Maps, their going from MXC to Monterrey means they were headed for the Texas border. That Mexican National Guard officers stopped them means the Mexican national government was involved. I'm guessing they stole an interstate bus, thereby committing the Mexican equivalent of a Federal felony. How in Hades the smuggler imagined they could make the whole trip, with fuel stops probably being necessary, eludes me. Every fuel station in northern Mexico probably had a BOLO for that bus.