Fake ambulance with 28 migrants aboard found in Mexico

Posted: Jan 22, 2022 / 10:13 PM EST / Updated: Jan 22, 2022 / 10:13 PM EST

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities have detected many strange schemes to smuggle Central American migrants to the U.S. border, but on Saturday they said they found a new one: a fake ambulance loaded with 28 Nicaraguans, including nine unaccompanied children.

Mexico’s Interior Department said the vehicle had been painted with fake logos from a government hospital network. The vehicle was stopped in the Pacific coast state of Oaxaca.

The National Migration Institute said the driver had tried to pass himself off as a health care worker and was detained.

Migrants found in such circumstances are usually returned to their home countries, unless they are the victims of a crime.

Immigrant traffickers in Mexico general try to smuggle migrants in buses or freight trucks. The trucks are often painted with the logos of well-known companies to try to avoid scrutiny.

They are only truely committed if they were IN the ambulance




And yes, that pic is purported to be an illegal attempt to sneak into the country circa 2001.

Cannonball!

28 Nicaraguans?

In a van sized vehicle??