52 day (Tuesday) Mexican security forces rescued the kidnapped migrants, mostly Guatemalans, they are held in a house near the U.S. border violence in Tamaulipas state.
Immigrants have been held for a few days in the city of Reynosa, where they found a group of federal and state police in a house, officials said.
The team consists of 48 people from Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico, two from the state government said in a press release.
Earlier this month, the Mexican army rescued 165 migrants kidnapped by a gunman in the same state, less than one mile from the U.S. border.
This is since 2006, has resulted in an estimated 75,000 people in a bloody drug war's biggest single discovery of its kind. Mexican cartels in recent years has entered the human smuggling, kidnapping and extortion of their immigration or to force them to carry drugs across the border.
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