U.S. federal agents arrested more than 60 illegal immigrants on Wednesday in a crackdown, authorities said.
The arrested suspects, which include three toddlers, were discovered at a house in South Los Angeles early Wednesday morning by federal immigration agents serving a search warrant as part of an investigation into a human smuggling ring, authorities said.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered the single-family, two-story home in a downtown area and found 61 Central and South American immigrants crowded into the house, with trash and rotting food piled 2 to 3 feet high in each room, agency spokeswoman Virginia Kice said.
The immigrants told agents that they had been staying in the home since Friday.
"It was essentially a scene of squalor," Kice said.
The immigrants were transported to downtown Los Angeles for processing and interviews. It wasn't clear whether any of those discovered were complicit in the smuggling operation.
The immigrants were from El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Ecuador.
Source:Xinhua
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