U.S. President Donald Trump has shut down the U.S. Mexican border so there are very few illegal entries.
But people keep trying.
Last month I reported a story of two would-be illegal aliens who tried to cross the border disguised as construction workers. See Two Illegal Aliens Try to Cross Border Disguised as Construction Workers. It didn’t work, however, they were immediately apprehended.
In a recent case reported on Mexico’s Excelsior, a trio of Mexican would-be illegal aliens were thwarted, not by the U.S. Border Patrol, but by the very polleros (illegal alien smugglers) they had hired to get them across the border!
The incident took place in the Ciudad Juarez/El Paso area of the border. Two men and a teenaged girl, from the states of Puebla and Tamaulipas, wanted to cross the border.
They had hired the polleros to get them across the border, but rather than doing that they kidnapped the three, beat them, videotaped them, then sent ransom demands to their families.
The local police, however, got a call about it and arrived to the house where the captives were held. The police detained the five perpetrators and rescued the three hostages.
So the would-be illegals didn’t get across the border, but they were delivered from their captors, which is good.
The five kidnappers ranged in age from 18 to 21, and two of them had fake guns.
Here they are, in custody, with their eyes covered so no one can recognize them!
The border is still a dangerous place.