Security Forces Rescue 80 Migrants Held in House Near US Border La Prensa
go to original July 18, 2013

Mexican security forces rescued 80 Central American migrants and a Mexican being held captive in Reynosa, located across the border from McAllen, Texas. (EFE)

MEXICO CITY - Mexican security forces rescued 80 Central American migrants and a Mexican being held captive in Reynosa, located across the border from McAllen, Texas, the Tamaulipas state government said.

"The Tamaulipas Coordination Group, via the mixed operations base made up of state and federal security forces, rescued 81 people who had been deprived of their liberty in the city of Reynosa," the state government said in a statement, without the releasing the date of the operation.

Officials ordered the operation after receiving a telephone tip from a citizen.

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