Mexico steps up raids on migrant-smuggling trucks, uses giant X-ray

Mexican officials have captured more than 200 migrants hidden in trucks over the...

MEXICO CITY - Mexican officials have captured more than 200 migrants hidden in trucks over the past two days, including dozens spotted by a large X-ray scanner huddled in secret compartments, as the country steps up a crackdown under U.S. pressure.

An additional 228 hidden migrants were found in a routine search of a soft drink transportation truck in the southern state of Chiapas on Monday, Mexico’s security ministry said in a statement. Mexico’s stepped-up efforts to stop record flows of mainly Guatemalans, Hondurans and El Salvadorans reaching the United States follow a June 7 deal under which Mexico averted tariffs threatened by U.S. President Donald Trump with a promise to use security forces to intercept more undocumented migrants.

The truck, its driver and 225,000 Mexican pesos in cash found in the vehicle are now in police custody and will be subject to investigation, the ministry added.

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