Texas border authorities busted a man who smuggled 76 illegal immigrants into the US crammed in the back of a truck, authorities stated Friday. The Texas Department of Public Safety pulled over the motorist, a Honduran nationwide who had actually entered the nation unlawfully, in Dimmit County, Texas, on Thursday, authorities told FOX News.
In the back of the suspect’s rig were dozens of males loaded hip to hip under a blue tarpaulin working as a makeshift roof, video footage shows.
The unnamed coyote was also carrying meth and had “a previous criminal history of drug and weapons charges,” the department said.
He was detained for human smuggling, and the illegal immigrants were committed to Border Patrol custody.
Border Patrol representatives stated the bust comes as it is getting ready for a possible surge in illegal immigration at the United States’s southern border thanks to the Biden-Harris regime ending the government’s Title 42 policy, which was used to quickly expel migrants because of COVID-19 public-health concerns.
“We are expecting to get wrecked,” a Border Patrol representative told Fox News, expressing great confidence in the Democrat-Socialist regime’s policy decision.
Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Chris Magnus said in a statement to the press,
“As a result of the CDC’s termination of its Title 42 public health order, we will likely face an increase in encounters above the current high levels,”
“There are a significant number of individuals who were unable to access the asylum system for the past two years, and who may decide that now is the time to come,” he added.
“We are doing everything we can to prepare for this increase, ensure we continue to process people humanely, and impose consequences on those who break the law,” Magnus went on. “At the same time, we will continue to use all available resources to secure our borders.”
The Biden administration stated Friday that it will end Title 42 on May 23 in order to provide the Department of Homeland Security time to get ready for an increase in migrants at the border.
