Ecuador acts as layover point for illegal migrants to the U.S.

Posted on January 17, 2014 • Filed under: Border Issues, Crime, Ecuador

ElComercio.com reported….They offered invitation letters, certificates of false identity and other documents. Therefore, the criminal organization charged them up to USD 1 500 to those affected so that could travel to the United States and Europe. Thus ended the unity of organized crime and transnational of the prosecution, after investigating a criminal network that was allegedly dedicated to smuggling of migrants from Ecuador. According to the Prosecutor who handled the case, at least seven people, including Ecuadorian and foreign, would have entered these places. Nine suspects who apparently belong to the criminal network received detention after the Phoenix operation. The scams were when migrants sought to reunite with their families, requires the ­investigador. Therefore, on this grouping they weigh 12 complaints for possible immigration fraud and fraudulent use of travel documents 17. Do they operate the international organizations that are engaged in this illegal and used Ecuador as a country of passage? In inquiries, the Prosecutor’s Office determined that the victims are first picked up through social networks in which offer was tours. So corroborated it yesterday, 13 January, five Haitians who met in Miraflores, Center of Quito. They work as bricklayers and earn USD 18 per day. Both speak Spanish and have some of their compatriots came to Ecuador because they learned, through social networks, they could travel. Read Article

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