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Seven suspected "coyotes," or human smugglers, were arrested after sheriff's deputies raided a suspected drophouse in west Phoenix, where several undocumented immigrants were the victims of beatings and torture, authorities said Saturday.
A total of 54 people, including the suspects and four children, were rounded up at a house in the 9400 block of West Coolidge Lane, south of Camelback Road, said Capt. Paul Chagolla, spokesman for the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.
The raid was launched Friday, and the investigation at the home continued Saturday.
At least seven people were tortured there, including a man who was assaulted, threatened with a gun and had a plastic bag placed over his head before it was submerged in an unflushed toilet, Chagolla said.
The man's pregnant spouse was taken to a hospital for treatment of a severe assault that likely will result in the loss of the unborn child, he said.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a former regional director for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, said shoving a head into a toilet is a common method of torture in Mexico.
"It appears the illegal criminal element is entering this county and is bringing its methods of carnage," Arpaio said.
When I hear people making excuses for illegal immigration, this is the kind of stuff that comes to mind for me. Sure there are illegal aliens who want to come here to make a better life and they somehow bypassed getting killed or tortured. Read the words from a sheriff who faces illegal immigration regularly: "It appears the illegal criminal element is entering this country and is bringing its methods of carnage."
I will never understand the politics that drive people to selectively apply outrage and condemnation. While the media will jump on any story involving the military and torture, even making a military-run operation synonymous with heinous evil ala Abu Graib and Gitmo, a literal house of horrors is a weekend wire story with zero traction. Real torture, not some fabrication about a book in a toilet. A real human being was dunked into a toilet as a direct result of illegal immigration.
You won't see outrage because it would start an honest debate about how that couple ended up in that situation. Both sides of the isle in Washington don't want the public to know how two-faced they are when it comes to illegal immigration. The media doesn't want anyone to know how selective it is when it comes to pushing stories. The lack of debate means illegal immigration continues unchecked while real people go through hell to cross the border, paying off sociopath traffickers.
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