(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Mexican-based human smuggling rings have been busted in multiple states. One involved smuggling hundreds of people from Central America, Africa and the Middle East into Arizona; another involved holding hostage foreign nationals in a ransom scheme where they were killed. Another involved a $200 million forced labor scheme on U.S. farms.
In California, San Diego resident Isaac Jimenez pleaded guilty to a transnational human smuggling conspiracy in which foreign nationals were held hostage in Mexico, families paid “tens of thousands of dollars in vain” in ransom payments only for their loved ones to “never to be seen again.”
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