Two Texas men were arrested for human smuggling after the FBI raided a home in Fort Worth. A total of 21 victims were located in the home, officials said.
Gonzalo Ramirez, 33, and Carlos Plata Ibarra, 35, were arrested by Fort Worth Police and charged with Smuggling of Persons.
The victims had been"stripped naked, unfed, cold, and scared and held hostage" by"coyotes," smugglers who traffic humans across the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a statement from Domingo Garcia, the national president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, a Hispanic and Latin-American civil rights organization in the U.S. Multiple agencies, including the FBI and Fort Worth Police Department, were involved in the discovery.
They have been granted temporary immunity from deportation under the provisions of a special visa that protects victims of alleged crimes. They have since been released to LULAC, which offered them shelter, clothes and food.Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox
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