On Monday, 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.
A fourth suspect remains at large.
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.”
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 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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AN WE ALL SHOULD THANK JANET NAPOLITANO,FOR TELLING JOE ARPAIO,TO STOP ENFORCING ILLEGALS CROSSING THE BORDER,AN OBAMA AS WELL..
amen. i never did trust that skunk headed weasel... or the illegal alien she works for!
Janet Napolitano and the Administration have no intention of stopping the flow of illegal immigration. Their strategy is to swell the ranks of potential democrat voters by allowing illegal immigration to continue unabated. They will then move to give full citizenship to illegal aliens, followed by a drive to get them signed up as voters (democrats, of course). Is America ok with that?
Is there any crime to which illegals won't stoop? This criminal mentality would be better put to use if they used their time in demanding that their government do the job it's supposed to do. It really isn't "macho" to whine about the US supporting them on one hand then complaining that it doesn't immediatly make them citizens. Be remember, they want all the rights, but none of the responsibilities. No one who's broken in to our country every deserves a chance to become a citizen.
The answer is "No", June. Illegals don't care HOW many U.S. laws they break because, for one, they've been taught that part of the U.S.--the American Southwest and CA and Oregon--belongs to them! Also because, culturally (and this is another reason to deport illegals from Mexico), graft and lawbreaking--including child rape--are considered things that many in Mexico turn and look away from rather than prosecute. Their treatment of children and women (as prostitutes) is criminal. So it's no wonder that, when they break into the U.S., they set up prostitution rings, often with minor children from Mexico.
Brothels are O.K. with the administration. Nancy Pelosi has nothing against brothels. Harry Reid and the Democrat Party have nothing against drugs. The Republican Rino neo-cons have nothing against increased rape,murder, and mayhem against your families or friends or mine. Simply put, if they did care about you,me,or our friends and families, THEY WOULD STOP ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND ALL THE CONSQUENCES IT CREATES FOR AMERICANS. PERIOD! THEY DON'T CARE, PERIOD!! THEY NEED TO BE REPLACED, WHOLESALE. PERIOD!!!
Hey Dave,
Have you ever been to a a truck stop?
Let me re-phrase that; have you ever been to a truck stop in a SOUTHERN state?
Human Being, once again you equate Americans crimes with the cavalier and disrespectful attitude of PEOPLE WHO ARE CRIMINALLY IN THIS NATION AND COMMITTING CRIMINALITY. Yes, Americans are guilty who operate brothels, or sell their bodies, BUT THEY ARE AMERICANS AND AMERICAN LAW DEALS WITH THEM. Illegal aliens I repeat, HAVE NO RIGHT TO BE IN THIS NATION PERIOD. P.S., WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THE ARGUMENT YOU TYPES ALWAYS GIVE THAT THESE PEOPLE JUST "WANT TO WORK HERE AND MAKE AN HONEST LIVING? YEAH, RIGHT!!
As a nation we will eventual reach a point of no return if we haven't already . Our politicians have shown us in fact that they no longer represent us (citizens). Where does that leave us ? I'm reluctant to say it at 53, but America as we knew it has expired. While the politicians squabble in DC Rome is burning.
as long as the women involved are paid a decent wage and living in sanitary conditions with proper housing, I don't see any disagreement with making new money in the old fashion way. however, one problem, I don't know of any decent women would want to sell themselves like sheep cattle. goodbye and don't call me at my Tower.
I think Dave Gibson looks better when he is wearing his KKK hood.
You should stop wasting your time writing anti-Mexican rhetoric, you racist red-neck loser. Amnesty will be given to these people very soon.
Well, I live in California, and this State is populated by Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, other minorities; and yes illegal immigrants but not all are Latinos, many of them are Asians, and Blacks from Africa and the Caribbean. HOWEVER,the brothels here are the Asian "massage/nails parlors" where illegal Asians are harbored and sell s*x.
Yes,it's TIME to DEPORT all those criminal invaders, that have committed so much genocide of natives*
KICK THEM ALL BACK TO EUROPE!!!
(note: the original natives are American Indians and yes ...Mexicans; like it or not. American Indians and Mexican Indians are related in race)
I live in Arizona two miles from the Mexican border.After twenty years of seeing what illegal immigrants have done to our area I have no compassion for these people.
As for the people dying crossing the desert I think we should just leave them where they lie. It cost money to bury them.It's bad enough that we have to support the live ones.
THE ENEMIES OF AMERICA ARE SNEAKING IN WITH THE ILLEGALS TO TAKE US OVER AND TO KILL US. THIS IS TIME TO PRAY AND CALL YOUR ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHES AND TELL THEM THAT THEY ARE SELLING OUT AMERICA BECAUSE THEY MARCH, DEMONSTRATE AND GIVE THEM WHAT THEY NEED EVEN WHEN THEY PUT AMERICA AT RISK, FOR THE RADICAL MUSLIMS OF ISLAM ARE COMING HERE TO DESTROY AMERICA. I HAVE SEEN VIDEOS OF GUNS AND AMMUNISTION CONFISCATED BY THE BORDER POLICE. PRAY.
TO DEXTER R.: WHEN THE FIRST SETTLERS CAME TO THE AMERICAS THEY FOUND GOOD AND BAD INDIANS AS WE FIND IN ALL COLORS, CREEDS AND RELIGIONS. INDIANS WERE KILLING AND ENSLAVING OTHER INDIANS. IN AFRICA THERE ARE STILL SLAVES AND PEOPLE ARE MURDERED IN THE MILLIONS AND NOT IN THE HUNDREDS SUCH AS IN CHICAGO, IL. THE FIRST CHRISTIAN SETTLERS BROUGHT MORALS, ETHICS AND A DEEP FAITH IN GOD FOR THE COUNTRIES WHICH THEY CAME FROM WERE PROSECUTING THEM FOR HAVING FAITH IN GOD.
MY PARENTS WERE BORN IN TEXAS AND WE ARE AMERICAN MEXICANS WHO WERE RAISED AS ROMAN CATHOLICS. WE WERE TAUGHT GOOD MORALS AND ETHICS AND WE HAD MEMBERS IN EVERY WAR SINCE WW1. THERE ARE MANY PATRIOTIC AMERICA MEXICANS WHO ARE ALSO AGAINST THE ILLEGALS. WHY NOT ASK THE AMERICAN MEXICANS HOW BAD THE MEXICAN ILLEGALS LIVE IN THEIR COMMUNITIES? ONLY THEY CAN JUDGE FOR THEY LIVE IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS. MANY ARE UNEDUCATED AND ARE BARBARICS FOR LOOK AT ALL THE SHOOTINGS WHICH OCCUR IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS.
An illegal working on a roof in our town 3 years ago fell and died. The illegal's family sued the homeowners and won a judgement of $1.4 million. The family had to sell their house and take the two kids out of college. The legal bills and the judgement wiped them out.
The women working in the brothels are only screwing a few people worry about obama he is screwing the whole country
Good work on completely missing the point of the article. -.-
Some people are taking advantage of the immigration laws to kidnap and prostitute people, and you're going on about how much Obama sucks.. Good work.
wake up you bunch of dumb ass MEXICANS AMERICA is pimping you out slaving your men pimping your women stay home and it won't happen.
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