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Distraught families from across the country have already started reaching out about clothing items they say they recognize.

Thousands of people have been arrested under Texas’ human smuggling law. Now they face at least a decade in prison under sentencing guidelines that took effect this year.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador acknowledged the problem. But Gov. Alfredo Ramírez claimed the producers' actions are more about driving up lime prices.

Avocado consumption has exploded in the U.S. over the past decade. But what’s rarely seen is the rotten underbelly of this industry, controlled by armed groups in Mexico who use smuggled weapons from the U.S. to keep control over this lucrative business. Meet Linda, who lives in Ixtaro, a small avocado producer town. She experienced unimaginable horrors while under the siege of narcos.