Dozens of migrants who were found inside an abandoned 18-wheeler truck in San Antonio earlier this week had been inside the tractor-trailer when it passed through a U.S. Border Patrol highway checkpoint and were not detected, according to Rep. Henry Cuellar.
Migrants were inside a tractor-trailer when it cleared an inland Border Patrol checkpoint, later ending up in San Antonio where dozens of bodies were found in the deadliest known smuggling attempt in the United States, a U.S. official said Thursday.
The disclosure brings new attention to whether the roughly 110 inland highway border checkpoints are sufficiently effective at spotting people who enter the U.S. illegally.
Migrants were inside a tractor-trailer when it cleared an inland Border Patrol checkpoint, later ending up in San Antonio where 53 people were found dead in the deadliest known smuggling attempt in the United States, a U.S. official says.
Migrants were inside a tractor-trailer when it cleared an inland Border Patrol checkpoint, later ending up in San Antonio where 53 people were found dead in the deadliest known smuggling attempt in the United States, a U.S. official says.
A U.S. official says the tractor-trailer involved in a human-smuggling attempt that left 53 people dead had passed through an inland U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint with migrants inside earlier in its journey.
The tractor-trailer at the center of a human-smuggling attempt that left 53 people dead had passed through an inland U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint with migrants inside the sweltering rig earlier in its journey, a U.S. official said Thursday.
SAN ANTONIO — The tractor-trailer at the center of a human-smuggling attempt that left 53 people dead had passed through an inland U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint with migrants inside the sweltering rig earlier in its journey, a U.S. official said Thursday.
Identical headlines usually mean shared wire copy. They are counted as separate articles but are not independent confirmation.
US official: Migrants who died cleared inland checkpoint | Since Then
