Authorities rescued a group of ‘migrants’ from a stash house at the U.S.-Mexico border where they were held hostage for more than a week, according to reports.
Local law enforcement and Mexican soldiers were dispatched last week to a house near the Rio Grade in Juarez, an extremely dangerous city that lies across the border from El Paso, Texas.
There they found 10 people from Central America and Mexico who said they had not eaten in days, KTSM reports.
Presumably bound for the U.S., the migrants said they had been held under lock and key for 10 days while smugglers demanded ransoms from their families of 30,000 Mexican pesos (~$1,500) under threat of physical harm.
One of the captives eventually managed to grab a cell phone and call 911.
The migrants were taken for medical attention and were fed.
It is unclear if any arrests were made.
In June, U.S. and Mexican authorities collaborated to rescue 13 migrants who had been brutally tortured and sexually assaulted at another stash house in Juarez.
Four of the migrants were hospitalized due to the severity of their injuries.
Chaos unfolds constantly along the U.S.-Mexico border, as Infowars regularly reports.