A DPS chase came to a dramatic halt after a car carrying nine migrants rolled over three times in a crash near the Mexico border.
The Department of Public Safety chased a white SUV in El Paso’s Santa Teresa neighborhood, near the Mexican border.
Flying soldiers spotted a white 2006 Hyundai Tucson loading a group of migrants in a desert area and alerted ground forces before the vehicle managed to pass the checkpoint.
DPS drivers attempted to pull the car over, but the SUV sped away and the chase turned into a full-fledged car chase.
The chase ended in a surprise crash where the SUV, packed with migrants, rolled over three times before suddenly going up in smoke on the side of the highway.
The Department of Public Safety chased a white SUV in El Paso’s Santa Teresa neighborhood, near the Mexican border. Troopers flying overhead spotted a white 2006 Hyundai Tucson loading a group of migrants in a desert area and alerted ground forces before the vehicle managed to pass through the checkpoint
The chase ended in a surprise crash where the SUV, packed with migrants, rolled over three times before suddenly going up in smoke on the side of the highway.
A migrant from Guatemala, Norma Judith, was in the SUV at the time of the crash and had to be pulled from the wrecked vehicle. She said, ‘I thought we were going to die there’
DPS agents, along with local authorities and Border Patrol, monitor smugglers from the moment they pick up their human cargo until the pursuit ends, using top-down tracking methods that involve both helicopters and ground control.
The driver was Angel Omar Arciniega Luna, 35, of Durango, Mexico. He was charged with human smuggling for trying to transport the group of nine migrants in his SUV. ABC-7.
DPS agents, along with local authorities and Border Patrol, monitor smugglers from the moment they pick up their human cargo until the pursuit ends, using top-down tracking methods that involve both helicopters and ground control.
The chase began after the officers turned on their lights to pull the SUV over and the driver – instead of complying – fled.
The driving officer told his passengers to “brace yourselves” and ended the chase by crashing into the smuggler’s car twice as the driver continued to speed up without regard for his passengers or other drivers on the road.
Ultimately, the third hit ended the chase, with the SUV rolling completely down the road.
A migrant from Guatemala, Norma Judith, was in the SUV at the time of the crash and had to be pulled from the wrecked vehicle.
She said, “I thought we were going to die there.”
Judith and the other migrants in the vehicle were later turned over to Border Patrol agents for processing.
Department of Public Safety Troopers near the U.S.-Mexico-Texas border saw an increase in pursuits after the state’s Governor Greg Abbott cracked down on migrant border crossings during Operation Lone Star.
Many of the DPS chases take place at night and many end in crashes.
‘Our dream was to come and work here, because there is no work in Guatemala.’
The dramatic incident comes amid a migrant crisis that is overwhelming states along the border, which are so swamped with migrants that they have begun busing them to cities across the US.
Texas has sent 51,840 migrants to Democratic strongholds as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s campaign to get liberal cities to share the burden of what he sees as an open-borders policy.
The migrant crisis is overwhelming states along the border, which are so swamped with migrants that they have begun busing them to cities across the US. Texas has sent 51,840 migrants to Democratic strongholds as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s campaign to get liberal cities to share the burden of what he sees as an open-borders policy
Abbott has said he will not stop sending migrant buses north and that Texas will “continue to use all available means to secure the border as best we can” (photo: El Pas0 border)
In Ciudad Juarez, trucks waited to cross a bridge into Santa Teresa, New Mexico, earlier this month after freight processing was temporarily suspended on a bridge connecting the city to El Paso, Texas, so customs officials could help process migrants arriving beyond the official border. crossings (photo: El Paso)
New York City has received the most buses, with 18,500 asylum seekers arriving since April 2022. Meanwhile, as many as 13,500 migrants have arrived in Chicago, 12,500 in Washington DC and 3,200 in Denver and Philadelphia.
Abbott has said he will not stop sending migrant buses north and that Texas will “continue to use all available resources to secure the border as best we can.”
The crisis has gotten so bad that Biden has restarted building Trump’s border wall and started deporting migrants to their native Venezuela.
The border crisis led to a massive pileup of trucks stretching more than 12 miles (19 kilometers) carrying $1.5 billion worth of goods after President Joe Biden ordered construction of a wall and New York Mayor Eric Adams, Mexico visited in an attempt to stem the flow of asylum seekers.
Thousands of trucks trying to enter the United States from Mexico waited in lines for miles because of delays related to record migration that has seen more than two million people apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border this year.
In Ciudad Juarez, trucks waited to cross a bridge into Santa Teresa, New Mexico, earlier this month after freight processing was temporarily suspended on a bridge connecting the city to El Paso, Texas, so customs officials could help process of migrants arriving outside official borders. crossings.