Mexico migrant find highlights grim conditions

18 May 2011 The discovery of 513 migrants being smuggled through Mexico in squalid conditions highlights the vulnerability faced by thousands. The discovery of more than 500 irregular migrants being smuggled through Mexico in squalid conditions highlights the lack of adequate protection for the thousands that travel through the country each year, Amnesty International said today. Police in Chiapas in southern Mexico on Tuesday intercepted two trailer trucks carrying 513 migrants, including 32 women and four children, from Central America, the Caribbean and Asia who were crowded into the…

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