Associated PressAUSTIN, Texas — Eleven people were hospitalized and seven smuggling suspects were arrested Thursday after authorities found more than two dozen migrants who had been driven from the border packed in a secret compartment of a trailer with little water and in sweltering heat.
A total of 26 migrants were found at the residence that Salazar described as a “shack” with holes in the floor and no water. Of those, 11 were taken to a hospital with heat-related and minor injuries, Salazar said. The smuggling sting came two days after President Joe Biden unveiled plans to enact immediate significant restrictions on migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border as the White House tries to neutralize immigration as a political liability ahead of the November elections.
All of the migrants found Thursday appeared to be adults, Salazar said. The nationalities of most of them was not immediately known, but one woman told authorities she was from Guatemala and that she had paid $16,000 to be brought to the U.S.
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