150 immigrants found hiding in truck in Texas

The United States Border Patrol discovered 150 immigrants who were hiding in a truck in the border city of Laredo, in Texas, according to court documents revealed this Sunday by the newspaper “El Nuevo Herald.”

The immigrants, some of whom are originally from Mexico and Venezuel a, were found in the past 30 December when the truck in which they were traveling arrived at a checkpoint located in a highway in Texas and border agents stopped him.

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Questioned by a uniformed man, the The driver of the heavy vehicle, identified as Joseph Winslow , assured that he did not know the load he was carrying, so he The agent referred him to a special inspection.

The scanner revealed certain irregularities, so the border agents proceeded to inspect the interior.

It was then that the presence of immigrants was detected, some of whom declared that they had paid sums of money, in undisclosed amounts, to reach the United States , and they were all arrested, as was the driver.

Winslow indicated that in Laredo they gave him a cell phone and cash and that his final destination was San Antonio, also in Texas, according to the court document.

In the recent months has significantly increased the number of undocumented immigrants detained at the border from the United States after illegally crossing the dividing line with Mexico.

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In November, the last month with official data, they stopped at 67, 101 immigrants, when in September they were 54, 771 and in May the figure rose to 30, 836.