Truckloads of migrants are being discovered along the Texas Border with Mexico during law enforcement operations that often result in as many rescues as arrests.
A Deputy heard screaming and knocking coming from a tanker-trailer parked at a gas station as she was on patrol shortly before 1:00 AM. When she climbed on top of the tanker to investigate she opened one of the hatches and discovered a large number of migrants inside.
The Sheriff's Department says 26 migrants were found locked inside the tanker trailer. Emergency Medical Services were requested to treat the migrants for possible dehydration after which the sheriff says they were turned over to the U.S. Border Patrol.
An investigation is underway surrounding the discovery of 26 migrants found locked inside this tanker in Eagle Pass on Sept 4, 2024.Photo byMaverick County Sheriffs Office via WOAI-TV
The tanker was seized by Maverick County while an investigation into who is responsible for locking the migrants in its trailer (and abandoning them) continues.
Almost two-dozen migrants were found locked inside this box truck by El Paso, Texas Sector Border Patrol Agents in August.Photo byU.S. Border Patrol
This follows similar incidents reported elsewhere in Texas last month:
Twenty-three migrants were discovered locked inside a box truck abandoned by smugglers as an El Paso Sector Border Patrol Anti-Smuggling Unit disrupted their operation. Agents say - like the Eagle Pass incident - this became a rescue operation as they discovered the migrants had been without food and water for some time.
El Paso Sector Border Patrol Agents say smugglers locked these 23 migrants inside a box truck without food or water last month.Photo byU.S Border Patrol
In another incident - this one reported by the Texas Department of Public Safety - 17 migrants were discovered locked in a hidden compartment inside a box truck smugglers had outfitted to appear to be a "Lowe's" delivery vehicle:
Seventeen migrants were found locked inside this fake "Lowe's" delivery truck by Texas DPS Officers in Kinney County last month.Photo byTexas Department of Public Safety
Highway patrol officers who stopped the truck had to use pry bars to free the migrants trapped in a small amount of space for this dangerous smuggling attempt.
DPS Troopers break into a three-foot-wide locked false compartment to free 17 migrants trapped inside during a smuggling attempt.Photo byTexas Department of Public Safety
The migrants were drenched in sweat, suffering from dehydration, and required medical treatment. Troopers arrested the driver from Mississippi for human smuggling causing serious bodily injury.
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