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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on July 09, 2019, 03:17:27 am
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Mexico steps up raids on migrant-smuggling trucks, uses giant X-ray
Rebekah F Ward
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican officials have captured more than 200 migrants hidden in trucks over the past two days, including dozens spotted by a large X-ray scanner huddled in secret compartments, as the country steps up a crackdown under U.S. pressure.
(https://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20190709&t=2&i=1405964642&r=LYNXNPEF671W9&w=1280)
Migrants are seen in a tractor trailer after being detected by police X-ray equipment in Concepcion del Oro, Zacatecas state, Mexico July 7, 2019 in this still image from video footage. Secretary of Public Security/Handout via Reuters
Footage of the X-ray shows a ghost-like truck filled with the brightened silhouettes of the migrants - some sitting and others lying down - along two levels of the crowded compartments on Sunday.
An additional 228 hidden migrants were found in a routine search of a soft drink transportation truck in the southern state of Chiapas on Monday, Mexico’s security ministry said in a statement.
Read more at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-mexico-migrants/mexico-steps-up-raids-on-migrant-smuggling-trucks-uses-giant-x-ray-idUSKCN1U32B4 (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-mexico-migrants/mexico-steps-up-raids-on-migrant-smuggling-trucks-uses-giant-x-ray-idUSKCN1U32B4)
Amazing.
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Amazing.
Yes, it is.
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How many do they have of these? One, two? Not enough to be effective probable.