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U.S. and Mexico launch joint mission to search for five men and women wanted for smuggling migrants and drugs across the border | |
2022-09-02 | |
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
The initiative was launched jointly in 2016 by the United States and Mexican governments to combat human and narcotics trafficking across the 1,954 miles of the border area.
Of the 1,816,353 interdictions that were reported by U.S. Border Patrol agents between October 1, 2021, and July 31, 2022, a total of 259,895 took place in the Yuma Sector while 211,714 were documented in the Tucson Sector. Border officials hope that the latest initiative can help prevent smuggling of dangerous border crossers like Josue Murrillo Solis, a 30-year-old Honduran national who was a sex offender and convicted felon, who was arrested this week by Yuma Sector agents. Or even a smuggling attempt that could have turned deadly last Thursday when Tucson Sector agents rescued two children, an 18-month-old and a four-month-old, who were abandoned by smugglers in the Sonoran Desert. The children – whose nationalities were not released – were found after agents stopped a group that had been smuggled from Mexico to the United States. The 18-month-old was crying and the four-month-old was lying face down and unresponsive. An agent provided first aid to the infant while waiting for an ambulance to arrive. Both children were taken to a local hospital for medical treatment. | |
Posted by:Skidmark |
#1 initiative was launched jointly in 2016 by the United States and Mexican governments And look what a fine job it's done. |
Posted by: Dron66046 2022-09-02 02:19 |