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3 dead as pickup carrying up to 25 hits SUV in Valley [South Texas illegals]
Houston Chronicle/AP ^ | March 27, 2008 | CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN

Posted on 03/27/2008 11:19:53 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch

PENITAS — A pickup truck crammed with suspected illegal immigrants collided with an SUV near the Mexican border today, killing three people and injuring at least nine others.

Police said there could have been as many as 25 people in the truck when it crashed before dawn on U.S. 83, the main east-west artery along the border in the Rio Grande Valley.

"There were bodies all over the place," said Penitas interim Police Chief David Harris. Nine people were taken to hospitals, while Border Patrol spokesman Oscar Saldana said his agency had three suspected illegal immigrants in custody.

The truck's driver, believed to be injured, ran off, Harris said. Information was not immediately available on the condition of the other driver. Department of Public Safety troopers were investigating the cause of the accident.

Some of the survivors told police they had been hurried into the back of the truck and had not gone far before the accident. "I think they had paid a fee" to be smuggled across the border, Harris said.

Blood stained the grass at the scene, which happened to be in front of L&I Funeral Home. The gold pickup came to rest against a telephone pole, just feet from the funeral home's display of headstones.

La Joya police spokesman Joe Cantu said the area was a major immigrant-smuggling corridor, and accidents where immigrants are tossed from the open beds of pickups are not unusual.

Lately there had been an influx of immigrants from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, but most of those involved in today's accident are believed to be Mexican, he said.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aliens; corruption; crimaliens; illegals; immigration; mccainsbuddies
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"The truck's driver, believed to be injured, ran off,..."

Damn!

1 posted on 03/27/2008 11:19:55 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
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To: SwinneySwitch
Blood stained the grass at the scene, which happened to be in front of L&I Funeral Home.

D*mn. Mexican takeout.

2 posted on 03/27/2008 11:22:16 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: SwinneySwitch

3 posted on 03/27/2008 11:23:18 AM PDT by avacado (Thomas Sowell: "Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.")
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

Post of the day.

Still laughing.


4 posted on 03/27/2008 11:24:44 AM PDT by Hoffer Rand (Forget "Who is John Galt?" I want to know "Where is Galt's Gulch?")
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To: SwinneySwitch

Well, at least the SUV didn’t ram the truck....for once, the SUV is not guilty....


5 posted on 03/27/2008 11:25:55 AM PDT by NRA1995 (Bill Clinton: HILLARY!'s other big ass)
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To: SwinneySwitch
Police said there could have been as many as 25 people in the truck when it crashed ...........

Probably 2 tons of people in a 1/2 ton pickup.

6 posted on 03/27/2008 11:28:35 AM PDT by umgud
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To: SwinneySwitch

I hope Americans didn’t die...


7 posted on 03/27/2008 11:29:12 AM PDT by wastedyears (The US Military is what goes Bump in the night.)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi
D*mn. Mexican takeout.

Seriously, if we are really serious about the Mexican invasion, we'd not support Taco Bell and other "Mexican" eateries.

I know that most of these enterprises are run by legal Americans. However, where else are they going to get this stuff?

Ready for the flaming.

Photobucket

8 posted on 03/27/2008 11:34:30 AM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: SwinneySwitch

Don’t worry about the injured drive, we’ll catch him and force medical care on him. Perhaps the ACLU will aid him in suing that SUV driver for having such a large vehicle...which resulted in the collision.


9 posted on 03/27/2008 11:34:41 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Sterco; expatguy; Paige; Tennessee_Bob; cspackler; ECM; STOCKHRSE; LET LOOSE THE DOGS OF WAR; ...

Penitas Ping!!

If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.


10 posted on 03/27/2008 11:44:01 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch (US Constitution Article 4 Section 4..shall protect each of them against Invasion...domestic Violence)
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To: Cobra64

Kick the illegals out if you will but leave the carne asada and chile verde, please.


11 posted on 03/27/2008 11:45:54 AM PDT by Seruzawa (A skeleton walks into a bar and asks for a beer and a mop.)
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To: Ultimatum

ping!


12 posted on 03/27/2008 11:51:47 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch (US Constitution Article 4 Section 4..shall protect each of them against Invasion...domestic Violence)
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To: avacado

Looter Guy needs to ditch the beer.


13 posted on 03/27/2008 11:59:25 AM PDT by beltfed308 (Heller: The defining moment of our Republic)
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To: wastedyears; SwinneySwitch

That was my thought. That, and then how much they will cost the county in hospital bills...


14 posted on 03/27/2008 12:01:44 PM PDT by Froufrou
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To: Cobra64

Gonna have to give up more than Taco Bell using that premise.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yum_Brands


15 posted on 03/27/2008 12:08:10 PM PDT by LucyJo
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To: Cobra64
A town near us has lots of illegals, and four good Mexican restaurants. They are doing a good business.

Carolyn

16 posted on 03/27/2008 12:15:55 PM PDT by CDHart ("It's too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the b@#$%^&s."--Claire Wolfe)
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To: CDHart; 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; ...

Ping!


17 posted on 03/27/2008 12:16:52 PM PDT by HiJinx (~ Support our Troops ~ www.americasupportsyou.mil ~)
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To: LucyJo
Gonna have to give up more than Taco Bell using that premise.

I had a different tactic in mind which appears to differ from yours. It has to do with "store branding."

Cheers.

18 posted on 03/27/2008 12:26:30 PM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: LucyJo

I’d stay away from all those fast food establishments.

I was, until recently, doing work for some of them. They decided to get rid of their contractors and make their already underpaid employees do the work themselves.

BAD SIGN!


19 posted on 03/27/2008 12:48:26 PM PDT by wolfcreek (I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
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To: Cobra64

I realize what you meant. I was just pointing out that those other non-Mexican fast food places get their supplies from the same source, so just the type of restaurant would be a better argument in this case than the source of supplies.

No flames intended, btw. ; )


20 posted on 03/27/2008 12:55:24 PM PDT by LucyJo
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