More than 2,000 migrants were abducted in Mexico last year
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Mexico’s national migration agency said authorities freed 2,115 migrant nationals from different countries kidnapped by various gangs in 2022. It appears that these gangs charge migrants a fee to cross Mexico and then kidnap them for ransom.
Mexico’s government said Friday that human trafficking and drug trafficking gangs abducted more than 2,000 migrants last year. Authorities this week carried out a successful search for 10 Colombian nationals kidnapped in northern Mexico. Mexico’s national migration agency said authorities freed 2,115 migrant nationals from different countries kidnapped by various gangs in 2022. It appears that these gangs charge migrants a fee to cross Mexico and then kidnap them for ransom.
In recent months there has been a spate of migrant kidnappings in Mexico. Prosecutors in the northern border state of Sonora said late Friday they had located 10 Colombians who went missing Tuesday in the border town of San Luis Rio Colorado, near the border with Arizona. A relative of one of the missing Colombians said the kidnappers had called their relatives in the US to demand thousands of dollars.
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