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Family offered a cell phone, hair iron and money from selling their motorcycle to "muchileros" guides who led them through the jungle where they passed bodies of migrants who perished along the journey and had to scrounge food from an abandoned pack.

Bay Area agencies are busy helping several South American migrants who arrived in El Paso, Texas, only to end up being dropped in San Jose last Saturday.

More than two-dozen migrants seeking asylum in the United States were dropped off in the South Bay over the weekend. Now some of them are being cared for by multiple Bay Area nonprofits. 

Texas Governor Greg Abbott's office confirmed to ABC7 News that they did not bus 12 migrants to San Jose from El Paso last week.

Local officials are investigating what they believe to be the first case of migrants bused to San Jose from the southern border.

Local officials are investigating what they believe to be the first case of migrants bused to San Jose from the southern border.