Brooks County Sheriff Urbino Martinez said a high number of migrants are trafficked through the area as they head north from the checkpoint.
A van crash that killed 10 migrants on Wednesday in Brooks County, Texas, happened on a highway known for human trafficking, authorities said.
The van crashed on U.S. Highway 281 in Encino, which is about 50 miles north McAllen and about two miles from the Falfurrias Border Patrol checkpoint, according to Sergeant Nathan Brandley of the Texas Department of Public Safety, theBrooks County Sheriff Urbino Martinez told Border Report that a high number of migrants are trafficked through this area as they head north from the checkpoint. Falfurrias reportedly is the largest checkpoint on the Southwest border.
Brandley said that the van has a capacity of 15 passengers but was holding 30 people, including the driver who attempted to divert off the highway to 281 before losing control of the vehicle and crashed into a pole and a stop sign.that the driver was traveling north on the U.S. 281 in the outside lane when, according to a witness, the driver attempted to turn right at an unsafe speed and veered off the road. The driver and nine passengers were pronounced dead at the scene.
Others were taken to hospitals, including McAllen Medical Center, Edinburg Regional Hospital and Spohn Kleberg, the spokesperson added.that nearly 7,000 COVID-positive migrants have been released into the city of McAllen since February and more than 1,500 in the past week. McAllen said in a statement that it has set up temporary shelters in response to the surge of immigrants.
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