Posted on 09/27/2005 12:31:37 PM PDT by Pa' fuera
A total of 26 immigrants who tried to cross into the U.S. were injured when the vehicle in which they traveled crashed into several vehicles which were returning to Mexico.
According to information given by personnel of the Attorney General’s office (Procuraduría General de la República - PGR), the Mexican Institute of Immigration (INM) and the Federal Preventative Police (Policía Federal Preventiva - PFP), the incident took place at 1:20 a.m. yesterday when the truck, driven by a presumed smuggler, was traveling the wrong way near Puerta Mexico (the entrance to Mexico at the international border).
The vehicle with the immigrants was a Ford Econoline with California plates, and finally crashed into a Jeep Cherokee after having collided with several vehicles along the way.
Of the 26 immigrants, four were taken to the Red Cross for the injuries they suffered, while the presumed smuggler escaped to the United States, where Border Patrol agents apprehended him.
Among the immigrants there were 4 minors, 2 girls and 2 boys, four women and 18 men from several areas of Mexico.
Six people inside the Cherokee were taken to Tijuana General hospital for medical attention.
Before the accident the vehicle was in line to cross the San Ysidro port of entry, but the driver decided to change lanes, apparently because he perceived a threat of being detained, and at full speed headed for the lanes head into Mexico.
PFP agents tried to detain the smuggler, but he ran towards San Ysidro, California, where he was detained by the Border Patrol.
The 24 migrants which were unhurt were turned over to the Ministerio Público as witnesses in order to take their declarations and determine responsibility.
The Border Patrol did not intervene.
U.S. authorities deny having detained anyone.
No police or immigration agency was involved in the accident of the vehicle which crashed in its attempt to enter the US by way of I-5, which ends at the Puerta Mexico, indicated Raul Martinez, spokesman for the Border Patrol in San Diego. “The vehicle crashed before entering the US, therefore we were not involved”, he affirmed.
Not to worry, he'll have them across by the weekend.
doesn't sound like anybody got the smuggler.
Looks like it would be easier to under under it.
" the presumed smuggler escaped to the United States, where Border Patrol agents apprehended him. "
immigrants? No, I believe an immigrant files paperwork with the Immigration and Naturalization Service and waits for it to be approved.
I'll raise you one....", but he ran towards San Ysidro, California, where he was detained by the Border Patrol." ;~ )
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OK, he's probably in custody, but the bureaucratic morass doesn't allow that information to come out
more like aspiring illegal aliens, since they never set foot in the U.S. (yet)
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A basic comprehension of English is appreciated on America's freeways < g >
The rat bastard driver/smuggler took off like a jack rabbit into the brush. They always do that. I'd love to a few gunned down. I'm sure they always carry a cell phone and some cash in case they have to bail. Damn skunks
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I'll bet the Mexican authorities didn't dispatch 8 ambulances and 4 helicopters.
There is a 4-10 mile section of an interstate in CA, immediately north of the border, that is REGULARLY run "backwards" by illegals so they can cut back to an entrance ramp and get on the side streets.
if they had been seriously hurt, they would have ended up in a Chula Vista hospital on the taxpayer's dime
sounds like I-5 south - there's still a tall dividing fence in the median from 15 years ago when the illegals used to get run over trying to cross the freeway on foot, as well as the famous "beware of immigrants" signs
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