One of Mexico's Most Wanted Human Traffickers Is Captured in Tenancingo Laura Sanchez Ley - El Universal
go to original May 1, 2015

Fusion’s documentary, “Pimp City: A Journey to the Center of the Sex Slave Trade,” takes place on both sides of the border: in Tenancingo and in Queens, New York. (Fusion)

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Mexican Federal Police announced the capture of one of the top 10 most wanted human traffickers: Paulino Ramírez Granados. He was arrested on March 31 in Tenancingo, Mexico.

The HSI New York investigation into the Granados sex trafficking organization began when a nongovernmental organization referred a trafficking victim to HSI. The victim had been smuggled into the United States and forced into prostitution in June 2000 by a member of the Granados family.  She provided a detailed account of the physical and sexual assaults she suffered by a member of the Granados organization and threats made to the safety of her children when she said she no longer wanted to work as a prostitute.

HSI special agents identified and rescued 25 additional victims - all Mexican nationals - and 19 additional traffickers or smugglers, all members or associates of the Granados family. Several victims were sexually assaulted by their traffickers, others were physically assaulted, and all were threatened with harm to their family members.

...Members of the Granados family would befriend or romance young, uneducated women before pressuring them or coercing them into prostitution in Mexico. They would then smuggle their victims into the United States and transport them to the New York City area to work as prostitutes.

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