Before Texas human-smuggling disaster, 5 rigs caught illegally ferrying immigrants this year
A growing memorial of pictures, flowers, paintings and more are seen along Quintana Road, at the site where 67 people were found in the back of a sweltering tractor-trailer on Monday, June 27. Fifty-three of the migrants have died from heat-related illnesses so far.The drivers in human smuggling cases have told federal investigators that they were recruited on social media or through people they knew or met.
It was the country’s deadliest truck-smuggling episode. But it wasn’t the only one this year in the Laredo-San Antonio corridor. On Feb. 7, Lurther Byrd of Alabama was arrested at the checkpoint after agents found 21 undocumented immigrants in the back of the Freightliner box truck he was driving. On April 15, agents at the checkpoint found 145 immigrants, the largest load this year, in a trailer hauled by a rig Anthony Alfred Boring was driving. Boring pleaded guilty on June 24 to conspiracy to transport undocumented immigrants while placing their lives in jeopardy.
“We’ll see some cases where the truck and trailer belong to the driver,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney David Fawcett, who prosecuted Chisley, among numerous other truck-smuggling cases. “In others, it belongs to the company and the driver goes on a side job, with the company unaware, to pick up a load of immigrants.”“Sometimes, will belong to the human smuggling organizations,” Fawcett said. “They may use one that is stolen or have cloned company logos.
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