On Wednesday, Alamance County sheriff’s deputies arrested a group of illegal aliens in an alleged house of prostitution located in a residential community.
According to police, the arrests came following an investigation prompted by neighbors’ complaints.
Those arrested are as follows:
Eusebio Cadena Cruz, 19, charged with maintaining a place for prostitution.
Lazaro Morales-Lauro, 38, charged with engaging in the act of prostitution.
Abel Cruz Segura, 30, charged with maintaining a place for prostitution and aiding and abetting in acts of prostitution.
Evelia Davila Ramos, 29, charged with prostitution.
Marisella Santiago Matias, 20, charged with no operators license.
The suspects are being held in the Alamance County Jail on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers.
Though it may be shocking to some that houses of prostitution have set up shop in our neighborhoods, the problem has become widespread. The following is a small sample of some of those cases across the country:
-In January 2010, three illegal aliens were arrested in Philadelphia and charged with running two brothels in a South Philadelphia neighborhood.
According to the federal indictment, Jose Claudio Corona Cotonieto, 27, Raymond Gonzalez Salazar, 31, and Nicolas Gonzalez Salazar, 22, were trafficking Hispanic women from New York, New Jersey and Delaware to work in the brothel for a week at a time.
Investigators say the Mexican nationals have been running the brothels since August 2009, making about $9,000 per week.
In a press release, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement issued the following statement on the case: “As part of the ongoing criminal investigation and in addition to the criminal arrests, ICE special agents identified and administratively arrested 50 individuals believed to be in the U.S. illegally. Those arrested include 39 males from Mexico, nine males from Honduras, and two females from Mexico. Those administratively arrested will be placed into removal proceedings and their cases will be adjudicated in immigration court.”
A neighbor living near one of the brothels told Fox News Channel 29: "I'm shocked. I'm shocked that this is going on on our corner. I have not seen anybody go in and out of that house."
Another woman said: "Two brothels – two of them? And they're getting $9,000 in one week. OK."
Grateful for the arrests, she continued: "I think that's great because that would bring a lot of crime and, to me, it isn't safe at all.”
-In July 2009, illegal alien and convicted felon Emma Tlacoxolal-Perez was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 33 months in prison for running brothels in eastern Virginia, in Chesapeake, Newport News, James City County and Williamsburg.
The Mexican national was the head of a prostitution ring which employed women smuggled into this country from Mexico, and only catered to other illegal aliens.
Tlaccoxablal-Perez, along with co-conspirator Felipe Vargas-Ortega, passed out business cards to advertise for the brothel known as El Nopal (The Prickly Pear).
Two more alleged co-conspirators, Francisco Sanchez-Martinez and Juan Carlos Vargas-Ortega, were also prosecuted.
Tlacoxolal-Perez, 37, who has operated brothels in Virginia since 2004, was actually deported in 2006, but easily found her way back across the largely unprotected border.
Customers paid $30 for 15 minutes with one of the prostitutes, the ring leaders kept half of it.
The Newport News location was in a suburban neighborhood and Mexican men typically went through the neighborhood at all hours, often knocking on neighbors’ doors looking for the brothel.
Managing Assistant U.S. Attorney Howard J. Zlotnick told the court: “The poor people living on Eastwood Drive,” had to live with "strange men knocking on their doors looking for girls."
All of those involved were illegal aliens from Mexico, El Salvador, and Ecuador.
-In February 2009, local police and federal agents raided a brothel run by Mexican nationals in Glen Burnie, MD
-In September 2008, police in Baltimore, MD shut down a Mexican brothel and arrested Carlos Silot, who ran the operation, along with two prostitutes, all were illegal aliens. Court documents show that at this particular brothel, the women would work for seven days and then sent back to North Carolina, and exchanged for new prostitutes.
-In June 2007, police in San Antonio arrested a mother and her two daughters for smuggling two minors out of Mexico to use them as prostitutes. Once in the U.S., the girls ages 15 and 17, were told they would have to work as prostitutes for five years to pay off their smuggling fees of $3,000. They were threatened at gunpoint and told that if they did run away, that their families back in Mexico would be killed.
Isabel Ochoa, 60, received time served. Consuelo Ochoa, 34, was sentenced to 18 months for sex-trafficking and an additional 39 months for a separate drug case. Maria Ochoa, 32, was sentenced to 12 months and one day.
-In March 2007, police in Madison, TN raided a Mexican brothel in a residential area and arrested Mexican nationals Santos Perez and Jose Garcia who ran the operation, along with two Mexican prostitutes.
Again, the brothel charged $30 per customer. The women were forced to have sex with dozens of men every day.
A Madison Police detective told News Channel 5: "It's pretty terrible. I don't think these girls want to be there. These girls don't want to be forced to do 30 customers a day.”
At the time of the raid, police told reporters that they were investigating at least 10 Mexican brothels in the Nashville area.
-In January 2006, police in Charlotte, NC raided two brothels run by Mexican nationals, both were crowded with women smuggled into this country and held against their will.
The Charlotte Observer reported that the leaders of these prostitution rings bring Mexican and Central American women in and out of Charlotte, exchanging them for women in Raleigh and Greensboro. One of these women could typically be sold between the pimps for $130 each.
Just as illegal aliens have spread throughout the United States, an epidemic of human trafficking to supply the brothels catering to them has spread to every corner of this nation.
Most of these women are confined in locked rooms with nothing but the clothes on their backs, and are often beaten. Of course, the women who are kept in these prostitution rings are illegal aliens as well, and are afraid to report what is being done to them. They are told that if they leave, their families back home will be murdered.
Thanks to an unprotected border, we now have large-scale prostitution rings engaging in kidnapping and human trafficking in U.S. neighborhoods.
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