Updated 5:30 pm, Friday, September 8, 2017

EDINBURG, Texas (AP) — U.S. Border Patrol agents in South Texas say they've arrested a Mexican national and an American in two separate incidents involving a total of 48 people entering the country illegally inside tractor trailer trucks.

Authorities say agents at a checkpoint in Sarita, about 50 miles (80.46 kilometers) southwest of Corpus Christi, opened a refrigerated tractor trailer Friday and found 14 people hidden among cargo. A short time later at a checkpoint about 20 miles (32.19 kilometers) to the west in Falfurrias, a detection dog alerted agents who found 34 people hiding in a similar trailer.

Border Patrol officials say the people inside the trailers have declined offers of medical attention.

Both sites are about 70 miles (112.65 kilometers) north of the Texas-Mexico border.

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