EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Police in Juarez, Mexico, freed 21 migrants held against their will by smugglers after a neighbor familiar with their plight flagged down a passing patrol car.
Municipal police officers patrolling streets just west of downtown Juarez received information from the woman regarding a large number of people she said were being “deprived of their freedom,” according to a report filed on Jan. 30.
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The officers knocked on the door of the home; a woman opened and allegedly told them she and several others had been told not to leave the house under threat of harm.
The report states the officers feared for the safety of those inside and entered the home. They found 21 individuals from China, Guatemala, El Salvador and southern Mexico. They ranged in ages from 19 to 51.
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Officers took the migrants to a police station. Non-Mexican migrants later were voluntarily turned over to the National Migration Institute…