12/24/2022
Two men who authorities believe had smuggled the people into Fort Worth were arrested at the scene. Nine women and a 3-year-old girl were in the group of migrants who came from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.
Federal and state authorities rescued 27 people including a 3-year-old girl late Wednesday from a Fort Worth home during a human trafficking investigation.
They were released to members of the League of United Latin American Citizens, who paid for them to stay in hotel rooms so they wouldn’t be outside in the freezing weather, LULAC officials said in a news release.
“Our first task was to get them safely processed out of law enforcement custody and get them to housing where they could rest for a few hours,” said Hilda Duarte, LULAC district director in Dallas, in the news release. “Since then, we have worked to ensure they get medical help and essential basics and connect them to their family in the United States.”
LULAC also released video interviews with some of the migrants, who said they were brought to Fort Worth in a tractor-trailer packed full of people.
The woman was afraid for her life and spent about a month walking to the U.S. through Mexico. “I wanted to come here to give my daughters a better life and for me to be safe,” the woman told WFAA.
Note: In Texas, human trafficking is believed to be highest within the “Texas Triangle” that connects the Houston, San Antonio and Dallas-Fort Worth metro areas, as well as in the lower Rio Grande Valley.
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