A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper arrested an alleged human smuggler after finding 18 migrants locked inside a dump trailer in Kenedy County.
The video, provided exclusively to Breitbart Texas, shows the trooper getting permission to search the trailer. During the search, the trooper found the dump trailer to be loaded with migrants. He called for assistance from Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents.
The video shows the migrants crawling out of the belly of the dump trailer. By the time the trooper unloaded the trailer, he recovered 18 migrants who appeared to be in the United States illegally. The migrants included one small child. The trooper arrested the driver on human smuggling charges. Border Patrol agents took custody of the 18 migrants, including the endangered minor.
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