Feds arrest 12 accused of extorting $27 million out of transmigrantes

The Department of Justice has charged a dozen people, including the son-in-law of a former Gulf Cartel leader, with extorting at least $27 million from transmigrantes and using threats of violence to include four murders in Mexico to monopolize the border industry.

Transmigrantes are people who transport used vehicles and other goods from the U.S. into Mexico that are later resold in Central America.

Anyone who has regularly traveled south on Highway 281 and 77 would recognize them as they are routinely traveling south towing multiple vehicles at a time.

When the transmigrantes arrive in the Rio Grande Valley, they head to the Los Indios port of entry where forwarding agencies provide services like helping clients complete customs paperwork to export the vehicles into Mexico.

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