El Paso Times: Cart below (Mexican Border) bridge moved migrants

[El Pinko]

El Paso firefighter Paul Wasiewski assisted U.S. Border Patrol agents in removing a cart that officials said was used by migrants to enter the United States under the Bridge of the Americas. (Courtesy of U.S. Border Patrol)


(Illustration by Charlie Ruybe / El Paso Times)


Cart below bridge moved migrants
By Louie Gilot / El Paso Times
Article Launched: 04/22/2008 12:00:00 AM MDT

A 5-by-5-foot trolley resembling those used by mechanics to slide under cars was put to a very different use over the weekend. Border Patrol agents spotted it resting between two support beams in the underbelly of the Bridge of the Americas during a routine check Sunday afternoon.

It was being used like a rail cart to carry undocumented immigrants from the Mexican side of the bridge to the U.S. side, about 30 feet up in the air.

"It is very ingenious of them," supervisory Border Patrol Agent Victor Lujan said of the smugglers. "Since we're stopping them in other areas, they are trying something new. But we foiled their attempt. With extra manpower, we can send agents over there (the bridge) and look around."

The agents Sunday also found a man, lying on top of one of the beams over the eastbound lanes of the Border Highway, near the cart. They brought him down with the help of the El Paso Fire Department.



Regardless how you feel about immigration issues, you gotta give these coyotes props for ingenuity! :wow:

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