Mexican government immigration officials found a group of 150 migrants locked inside a tractor-trailer headed to the Texas-Mexico border.
“This has proven to be a deadly tactic that smugglers use,” Chief Owens said in the tweet. “Luckily no one in this large group needed medical assistance.”extensively on the use by Mexican cartel-connected smugglers to move migrants into the U.S. interior. These smuggling efforts can have deadly consequences.
In June, a worker found 48 migrants dead in a tractor-trailer smuggling incident in San Antonio, Breitbart . Five additional migrants died in the following days from being locked in the sweltering heat in the trailer.. It is not known if they were accompanied or not. Four minors survived and were taken to area hospitals, officials reported in a Monday night press conference.
Earlier that month, local police agents found two migrants dead in a tractor-trailer loaded with 111 migrants, Breitbart Texas. La Salle County Sheriff’s deputies responded to frantic 911 calls from migrants being smuggled in a semi-tractor trailer near Encinal, Texas, on Friday. Dispatchers could hear screams from migrants trapped inside the closed trailer traveling north and away from the border on Interstate 35.
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