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Illegal Immigrants, Desperate To Find Work In The U.S., Risk Kidnapping, Rape and Murder From Those Smuggling Them Across the Border

By Monica Alonzo August 12, 2010

Maria was drifting off to sleep on the bedroom floor. She could hear women getting raped in the next room. Only she didn't hear screams—she heard the... More >>>

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Kidnappers force illegal immigrants to remove their shoes to make it harder for them to escape.

This bedroom in a Phoenix home was used by coyotes as a drop house to stash illegal immigrants they were extorting.

A 32-year-old Latino, taken hostage by two armed men, narrowly escaped getting buried alive inside this makeshift grave his kidnappers dug inside a Phoenix home.

A kidnapping victim rescued by the Phoenix Police Departments Home Invasion and Kidnapping Enforcement unit.

When kidnappers ransom demands are not met, victims often pay with their own blood.

Illegal immigrants held hostage inside this west Phoenix home tried to claw their way to freedom.

This torture closet was used to brutally abuse a Phoenix kidnapping victim whose family could not pay his ransom. He was rescued by police after four days of being beaten, stabbed, sodomized and burned with a blowtorch.

A Phoenix drop house where coyotes held more than two dozen illegal immigrants hostage. Kidnappers force their victims to strip to make it hard for them to escape.

Police rescued a 16-year-old boy held hostage and beaten for five days. Kidnappers demanded a $100,000 ransom.

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Kidnappers force illegal immigrants to remove their shoes to make it harder for them to escape.

IIMPACT (Illegal Immigration Prevention Apprehension Co-op Team)

Kidnappers force illegal immigrants to remove their shoes to make it harder for them to escape.

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