A group of 61 undocumented immigrants who were crammed into a safe house in the city of Mission, Texas, close to the border with Reynosa, Tamaulipas, were arrested by Border Patrol agents, local media reported.
The border patrol agents were tipped off by an anonymous reporting on suspicious activity in a house located in the northeastern side of the border city.
When officers arrived at the house, located on Western Road St. and Milla Ocho, in northeastern Mission, they found 61 undocumented immigrants from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, according to Univisión.
Daniel Tirado, spokesman for the Border Patrol, told the media that the 61 undocumented immigrants arrested are in good health, and that they won't need any medical attention.
According to El Universal, the American agency reported that all the detainees were taken to an immigrant center where they will remain until their deportation processes to Mexico and other Latin American countries.
Additionally, border officials confirmed that they also managed to capture four alleged human traffickers in the safe house, who charged large sums of money to smuggle the immigrants into American soil.
The arrest of the 61 undocumented immigrants comes a few days after the Border Patrol revealed that the rise in the number of undocumented immigrants crossing the border with Texas has forces them to use planes filled with immigrants to El Paso, to expedite the deportation processes.
According to information published by the network 7 KVIA, an ABC affiliate, since October 1, 2013, there have been over 130,000 arrests near the border, a rise of 67% in comparison to last year, this is why they decided to use planes loaded with immigrants in an attempt to reduce the number of detainees at immigration centers.
The first plane, with about 100 immigrants on board, has to leave from Brownsville to El Paso on the afternoon of Wednesday, May 7, reported the quoted network.