US Sex Ring with Ties to Mexico Busted - Involved Undocumented Immigrant Females Elizabeth Aguilera - U-T San Diego
go to original May 30, 2013

Federal law enforcement authorities arrested three men and took down a sex trafficking ring in Atlanta with ties to Tlaxcala, Mexico.

The three men, all from Tenancingo, Mexico, were charged with sex trafficking and harboring unauthorized immigrants. A fourth man, also from the Mexican state of Tlaxcala, was charged with encouraging and inducing unauthorized immigration.

... The men are all from the Mexican state of Tlaxcala, which is within a couple hours drive of Mexico City. It is there, in a town called Tenancingo, that the majority of Mexico’s sex traffickers originate. They are known as romeo traffickers, who lure young women with promises of love, marriage and a better life in the U.S. and then force them into prostitution.

Sex rings across the U.S., including in San Diego County, have been linked to these tiny towns in Mexico's interior. Many that go on to trade women and girls in other cities across the country traveled by car or foot across the southwest border or through ports of entry in San Diego.

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