Human smugglers locked over a dozen undocumented immigrants, including a child, in a room of a house in Nogales, Arizona, without access to a bathroom or running water last week, federal prosecutors allege in a new criminal complaint.
U.S. Border Patrol agents and officers with the Nogales Police Department found the 16 immigrants, one of whom was an unaccompanied juvenile, locked in a room of a Nogales home. The door to the room had been locked with a large padlock. Large piles of trash were found in the room and the stench of human waste and putrid food was significant. The migrants told law enforcement that the smugglers had seized their cellphones and IDs.