According to a report, more than 120 migrants, including some minors, were found screaming for help behind a tractor-trailer in Mexico this week.
The migrants were discovered on Wednesday after a citizen alerted authorities about a badly parked truck along the Matehuala-Saltillo highway in the border state of Nuevo León. EFE news agency reported,
“The National Guard went to the scene and contacted a dry box-type vehicle parked on the shoulder of the road,” Mexico’s National Guard said in a statement.
“On approaching, they realized that the operator was not there and heard screams from inside the vehicle.”
Authorities found 121 migrants – residents of Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Cuba – hiding in the back of a crowded truck.
He was given medical attention and water before being transferred to a migration station to determine his legal status.
It was not immediately clear whether the truck driver had been identified.
The discovery of the truck comes a month after the US Border Patrol told Mexican officials Another truck bound for the border with 150 immigrants stopped Stuck inside.
Border Patrol Chief Patrol Agent Jason D. Owens tweeted on August 17 with a photo of migrants: “This has proven to be a deadly tactic used by smugglers.” “Fortunately, no one in this large group needed medical help.”
The interception of those two tractor-trailers comes just months after the deadliest smuggling attempt in American history, in which 53 migrants found dead Behind a rigid big rig in San Antonio, Texas in June.
Migrants are seen walking from a bus station towards Piedras Negras.
Texas law enforcement officers found migrants who had crossed the US border from Mexico inside wooden boxes.
Migrants are seen walking to a border crossing at Eagle Pass, Texas.
Homero Zamorano, the driver charged in that deadly smuggling attempt, had allegedly carried migrants in dangerous trucks at least three times before.
almost 750 migrants have died while trying To enter the US this fiscal year, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle have blamed the Biden administration’s policies for the increase in border crossings since the president took office in January 2021.
Police officers are seen standing outside the Mexico Senate building.
Migrants protest after being denied bus tickets to travel to Ciudad to cross the Del Rio, Texas border.
Migrant arrest numbers under the Biden administration have nearly doubled and surpassed last year’s record, according to the latest Customs and Border Protection data.
So far this fiscal year, Border Patrol agents have reported over 1.94 million encounters at the border, which is up from 1.73 million encounters recorded in 2021 and just over 458,000 in 2020.