Members of 17 ultra-Orthodox Jewish families belonging to the extremist Jewish haredi cult Lev Tahor were detained in massive raids by law enforcement authorities in Mexico, Mexican outlet Diario de Chiapas reported on Tuesday morning.

The raid was carried out in a Mexican migration control facility on Mexico's border with Guatemala, where the sect members were being held, according to the report.  

Established in the 1980s in Israel and practices a fundamentalist version of Hasidim. Among the extreme laws of the sect are requiring women to be covered in black from head to toe and forcing young girls be wed to older men.

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