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Mexican police rescue 154 illegal migrants
June 17, 2008 6:16 AM
The Associated Press
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Police say they have found 154 illegal migrants inside a semitrailer. Federal police official Arturo Herrera says many of the migrants were suffering from severe dehydration after spending nearly a week cramped inside the semitrailer.
Herrera says police stopped the rig along a highway in the Gulf state of Tabasco. Inside the tractor-trailer, authorities found 140 Guatemalans, seven Ecuadoreans, four Hondurans, two Salvadorans and one Chinese.
The driver was detained and the migrants were turned over to immigration authorities for deportation.
