Badges - Mexican authorities find 513 illegal immigrants in 2 tractor-trailers
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- Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 14:51:03 +0000
Mexican authorities find 513 illegal immigrants in 2 tractor-trailers
By the CNN Wire Staff

UPDATED: 08:35 AM EDT 05.18.11
Mexican authorities said they found and detained more than 500 illegal
immigrants from Central America and Asia who were crammed inside two
tractor-trailers heading toward the United States on Tuesday.
X-ray equipment detected the immigrants at checkpoints in the southern state of
Chiapas, the state attorney general's office said. The drivers of both trucks
sped away after authorities ordered them to stop, but police apprehended them
nearby.
Inside the tractor-trailers, they found 513 people from El Salvador, Ecuador,
China, Japan, Guatemala, India, Nepal, Honduras and the Dominican Republic.
Each of them had paid $7,000 to travel to the United States, the attorney
general said.
They had been traveling in "inhumane conditions," Mexico's National Migration
Institute said.
Officials said the group was receiving food, shelter and medical assistance
while Mexican federal immigration authorities reached out to consulates and
embassies to arrange their return to their home countries.
The southern border state of Chiapas, which borders Guatemala, is a major
crossing point for Central American immigrants heading north.
In 2010, Mexican authorities apprehended about 25,000 illegal immigrants there,
according to statistics from Mexico's National Migration Institute.
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