Thread: TX-Truck with illegal immigrants goes off 45-foot Texas clif

Truck with illegal immigrants goes off 45-foot Texas cliff

The Associated Press
11/25/2009

ALICE, Texas—A pickup hauling at least 18 people plunged off a more than 40-foot embankment and came to rest upside down south of Alice.
Patrol car dash cam video showed the rescue efforts.

Capt. Joe Martinez with the Jim Wells County Sheriff's Office told KIII-TV that it's pretty common for vehicles to go through fences, "but they weren't expecting this 45-foot drop."

Martinez said numerous responders Tuesday afternoon assisted the Border Patrol because "there were so many victims." Authorities said at least 18 people, suspected to be illegal immigrants, were in the truck.

Martinez says the Border Patrol had been notified by officers in another county to watch for the pickup, whose driver then tried to flee.

Messages left Wednesday with a Border Patrol spokesman were not immediately returned to The Associated Press.

Alice is 40 miles west of Corpus Christi.

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whose driver then tried to flee.

The murderer tried to get away.


What a mess.

We must stop them from crossing. This has to stop. Obama and Napolitano have not secured the border or this would not have happened.

Dixie

I SO TOTALLY agree with you, Dixie!!!!

Don't want to hear more clap-trap about the border being secured. We read stories here everyday about border crossers.

Blame both governments for these deaths. We need to stop being an escape valve for Mexico's problems. As long as both governments continue the status quo needless deaths will occur.