LAREDO, Texas (AP) – The U.S. Border Patrol said agents at a Laredo checkpoint found 53 migrants who had entered the country illegally hiding in the back of a sweltering tractor-trailer.
The agency said the migrants were found Tuesday during a search of the truck at a checkpoint on I-35 just north of Laredo.
The migrants, who were from Mexico, Ecuador, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, and the driver, who is a U.S. citizen, were arrested and processed.
The Border Patrol said the temperature inside the trailer was 105 degrees. Officials said those on board were evaluated and no one required medical attention.
On Sept. 11, a U.S. citizen was arrested in Arizona after 31 Mexicans who were illegally in the U.S. were found in the tractor-trailer he was driving.
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