On Jan. 22, 12 Mexican state police officers allegedly participated in the mass murder of 19 people, including migrants from Guatemala, who were only miles away from the Texas border.
The smugglers, along with the migrants, were shot and burned beyond recognition. They were discovered piled on top of one another in a charred pickup truck near Camargo, Mexico, near the Rio Grande River.
The investigation is ongoing but authorities in Mexico suspect that the smugglers didn’t pay the local cartel‘s pisos, a sort of tax imposed for using their territory to move people across. In the end the migrants paid the ultimate price.
These are the deaths that are often ignored in the tragedy of the illegal immigration debate, but they are frequent and horrific.
In the narco-world there are only two choices once you cross into their territory – plata o plomo – in…
