At least 84 migrants found stepping out a tractor trailer at a Texas border town residence

At least 84 migrants were ‘rescued’ after a shocked resident saw the group get out of a tractor trailer in Texas, near the border with Mexico.

The group was unloaded from the 18-wheeler on Thursday outside a home in Olivarez, a community north of Weslaco.

Deputies from the Hidalgo Sheriff’s Office and U.S. Border Patrol agents arrived at the house, about eight miles north of the United States’ border with Mexico.

Hidalgo County Sheriff Eddie Guerra told CNN that all of the migrants are from Central America and did not require medical attention.

It is unknown if the migrants who emerged from the tractor trailer were smuggled in directly from Mexico or if they were in another Texas town before being found in the presence of a resident of the small town of Olivarez.

He added that Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) of the US Immigration and Customs Administration had taken over the investigation.

A spokesman for the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office told DailyMail.com that the migrants were being taken in by the US Border Patrol for processing.

It is not known whether the group was smuggled directly onto the truck from Mexico or whether they were transported from another location.

“We continue to address the serious threat to public safety posed by human trafficking organizations and their reckless disregard for the health and safety of those being smuggled,” HSI said in a statement to DailyMail.com.

According to data from CBP, U.S. Border Patrol agents reported 2.1 million encounters with migrants illegally crossing the Southwestern border in the first 11 months of fiscal year 2022, from October 1, 2021 to September 20, 2022.

The agency’s Rio Grande Valley Sector, which covers more than 34,000 square miles of Southeast Texas, accounted for just over 440,000 of the bans.

US Border Patrol agents reported 2.1 million encounters with migrants illegally crossing the Southwestern border in the first 11 months of fiscal year 2022

The 18-wheeler used to smuggle 84 migrants disembarked in front of a house in Olivarez, Texas, on Thursday. The group is from Central America and has been taken into custody by the US Border Patrol for processing

Driver who abandoned tractor in blistering Texas heat that killed 53 migrants was ‘very high on meth’ when police arrested him

Homero Zamorano Jr., 45, drove the tractor trailer that was crammed with Mexican, Guatemalan, Salvadoran and Honduran migrants before leaving it near San Antonio. A total of 53 people died in the smuggling incident

The finding comes three months after 53 migrants died trapped in a tractor trailer on a remote road near Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio.

According to Homeland Security Investigations, 48 ​​people were found dead at the scene on June 27.

The driver, Homero Zamorano Jr., and three other people were arrested in connection with the botched smuggling incident.

The 45-year-old, who is facing one count of alien smuggling that resulted in death, attempted to disguise himself as a migrant and was “very high on meth” when he was arrested while hiding in the undergrowth.

Christian Martinez, 28, was arrested on June 28 and charged with conspiracy to transport illegal aliens resulting in death. Authorities said he had been in regular contact with Zamorano Jr. about the smuggling incident.

San Antonio Police Chief William McManus told CNN at the time that the incident was “a crime against humanity.”

“The floor of the trailer was completely covered in corpses. Completely covered in bodies,” he added.

“There were at least 10 bodies outside the trailer because when we arrived, when the ambulance arrived, we were trying to find people alive. So we had to put corpses from the trailer on the ground.’