Border Patrol Agents in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas may have prevented a tragedy from occurring in recent days. While inspecting an 18-wheeler, a K9 alerted them that something was amiss inside a locked trailer.
When they forced the trailer doors open, they found 26 illegal aliens inside. The aliens were taken into custody along with the U.S. citizen driving the truck. While none of the aliens needed medical attention, this is an incredibly dangerous form of human smuggling.
A week ago, Mexican authorities discovered 229 migrants from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Ecuador - ranging in age from elderly to young children - locked inside a stolen trailer in Xelapa, Veracruz. Some had to be treated by emergency medical personnel for dehydration.
Employees of an impound lot where the trailer had been towed told the Associated Press that “hours after arriving at the lot, workers began to hear shouting and banging coming from inside” the trailer.
There have been many such human smuggling schemes involving tractor-trailer loads of migrants through Mexico into the U.S. in recent years, some with fatal results.
Are you surprised to learn that human smugglers often risk the lives of the migrants they are smuggling by locking them inside trailers?
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Abrazos,
Jack Beavers
