More trucks smuggling migrants in trailers
"Trailers have always been used, but not as much as now," Tubbs said. Balli believes there are fewer Texan drivers willing to do this kind of work now, as a result of an aggressive deterrence campaign by authorities who warned truckers they could lose their expensive and difficult-to-obtain business licenses if they they are condemned. to transport immigrants illegally.But the smugglers take advantage of the economic situation of the drivers. In December 2021, Crispín de la Rosa, a driver who was stopped in Sarita, Texas, with 24 migrants in a trailer that was also carrying watermelons, told agents that he…
