L.A. drop house busted, 61 illegals inside
Well, at least it's a story about a drop house other than in Phoenix, for a change. I always wonder about that. How come all the stories about this happening around Phoenix but not other places in Texas, New Mexico, etc..?
LOS ANGELES—Sixty-one undocumented immigrants were found Wednesday in a squalid drop house filled with piles of trash and rotting food, immigration officials said.
Three of those taken into custody were toddlers.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators raided the two-story South Los Angeles home at 6:30 a.m. to serve a search warrant in a human smuggling investigation, said ICE spokeswomen Virginia Kice.
The immigrants arrived at the South Normandie Avenue house on Friday, and were believed to be from El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Ecuador, said Kice.
The group included three teenagers, one 2-year-old and two 1-year-olds. Kice said ICE officials would try to keep the toddlers with their mothers or guardians as they are processed and interviewed.
ICE spokeswoman Lori Haley said an agent involved in the raid described the conditions inside the home as "utter squalor with trash and food piled up two to three feet high inside."
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