MEXICO CITY (AP) -- The Mexican army says it has freed 55 kidnapped Central and South American migrants in a raid on a house near the U.S. border.
The Defense Department says soldiers acting on a tip found five children, 12 women and 38 men at the house in Reynosa, across from McAllen, Texas.
The raid occurred Wednesday. The department said Thursday that soldiers also detained six men suspected of holding the migrants captive.
Drug cartels and common criminals have increasingly turned to abducting undocumented migrants as they try to make their way to the United States.
Kidnapped migrants are usually held until relatives in the United States agree to pay a ransom.
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